Airdrie 2 Inverness 0: Diamonds start year on high as they climb to fourth in Championship

Airdrieonians started 2024 on a high after towering headers from Nikolay Todorov and Callum Fodryce proved enough to see off Inverness - and lift them into the top four in the Championship.

The Diamonds made it back-to-back wins in the league as they followed up Saturday's late win at Hampden over Queen's Park with a deserved victory at New Broomfield.

Bulgarian hitman Todorov was the Hampden hero with a last-gasp goal and he delivered for the Diamonds again when he headed home from Charlie Telfer's corner after 61 minutes, grabbing his fifth of the season.

And player/assistant manager Fordyce popped up six minutes from time to nod in from another Telfer corner.

Duncan Ferguson's Inverness took over 70 minutes to muster a shot on goal on a day they barely laid a glove on their hosts.

And the gaffer saw red at the final whistle after confronting referee Scott Lambie.

The victory moves Airdrie a point above fifth-place Dunfermline, who have a game in hand.

The Diamonds went close inside eight minutes when Charlie Telfer whipped a dangerous free-kick into the box and it almost snuk in at the back post as it evaded everyone on its way out of play.

Five minutes late a superb covering run from Mason Hancock saw him burst a gut to get back and stop Nathan Shaw going through one-on-one with Airdrie keeper Josh Rae.

The hosts continued to see a lot of the ball and Hancock showed great pace again in 24 minutes when he broke down the left, burst into the penalty area and saw his delivery across the six-yard box turned away from danger by the fingertips of Mark Ridgers.

In 36 minutes Gabby McGill had a chance to break the deadlock when he saw Telfer's corner fall for him in the box but, amid a crowd of bodies, he couldn't get enough