Airdrie 0, Queen's Park 2: Queen's hold the aces against Diamonds

Ten-man Queen's Park showed their hand early and still held all the aces as Airdrie's goals against column took another hit at New Broomfield.

Goals from Jack Turner and Zak Rudden had the Spiders comfortably ahead at 2-0 by the interval.

The Diamonds had by that point conceded 13 goals in three games, and though six of those were against Dundee in the Premier Sports Cup, it's not a run the Lanarkshire side will be happy with.

Airdrie looked better in the second half and went close on a few occasions, but rarely troubled Calum Ferrie in the visitors' goal.

Queen's Park keeper Calum Ferrie was shown a straight red card for handling outside his box in the last minute of normal time, but it wasn't enough to sway the game.

Jack Turner got the Spiders on their way after just two minutes, and turned provider for Zak Rudden in 23 minutes, shortly after Airdrie were denied an equaliser through Ben Wilson through what looked like a tight offside call.

The second half didn't provide as many moments of intrigue, but Ben Wilson must have been cursing his luck when he struck a post.

Airdrie boss Rhys McCabe made five changes from the side that lost 6-1 at Dundee in the Premier Sports Cup second round last weekend. Goalkeeper Murray Johnson replaced Kieran Wright, while Sam Graham (debut), Luke Badley-Morgan (debut), Lewis McGrattan and Rhys Armstrong came in for Rhys McCabe, Cammy Bruce, Dean McMaster and Murray Aiken.

His Queen's Park counterpart Callum Davidson made three changes to the side that lost 1-0 at Aberdeen in the same stage of the competition. Henry Fieldson, Ryan Duncan (debut) and Roddy MacGregor came in for Jack Thomson, Cammy Kerr and Louis Longridge.

Queen's Park got off to the perfect start as they took the lead