Airdrie boss delighted with 2-0 Sons win, but wanted answers over offside 'goal'

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Airdrie boss Rhys McCabe was delighted with his side’s 2-0 Viaplay Cup win over Dumbarton – but demanded answers over Calum Gallagher’s disallowed goal.Nikolay Todorov and Lewis McGregor both struck in the last five minutes of the game to get Airdrie’s Group E campaign off to a flier before welcoming Dundee to New Broomfield next Saturday.But referee Iain Snedden appeared to bungle a decision when Airdrie striker Calum Gallagher latched onto a pass-back from David Wilson to slam the ball into the net – only to fall foul of an offside flag.McCabe said: “I questioned the referee.

From where was standing, it looked as if the defender had tried to toe-poke the ball back to the goalkeeper, intentionally – it fell straight to Gal and he tucks it away.“I understand the ruling if it’s a deflection, if it took a ricochet, but it looked as if he had intentionally tried to toe-poke the ball back to the goalkeeper and got caught out, so that was all I said to the referee.“I said it wasn’t Gal’s fault, but by some way or another the referee said it was a different viewpoint, but we move on.“It’s a minor thing and we’re not going to focus on that over the course of the performance today.”Airdrie huffed and puffed, with Dumbarton passing up gilt-edged chances in the first half as Ross MacLean fired well over from a good position, before James Hilton nicked in ahead of Callum Fordyce to give himself a chance, but keeper Josh Rae closed him down and blocked well.Charlie Telfer stung Sons keeper Brett Long’s palms with a drive and it looked like the tie was heading to a penalty shoot-out, before Todorov tucked in the rebound after Justin Devenny had hit the post with a low shot in 85 minutes, and Lewis McGregor found himself unmarked in