Airdrie sinking Raith Rovers shows we shouldn't fear anyone in the Championship, says Rhys McCabe

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Rhys McCabe reckons stunning league leaders Raith Rovers shows Airdrie shouldn't fear anyone in the Championship.The Diamonds grabbed all three points at New Broomfield thanks to Calum Gallagher's 73rd minute strike, which maintained their perfect home record in the league and lifted them up to sixth in the table.It was an unhappy return to North Lanarkshire for former Diamonds gaffer Ian Murray, as his successor inflicted a first defeat on the Kirkcaldy men this season.McCabe was delighted to see his charges bounce back from last week's 4-0 hammering away to Arbroath and insists their display proves they can mix it with the top teams in the Championship.He said: "I think after the performance last week, we owed it to ourselves and it was a small target I set for the boys, to get a response."Coming in at half-time, the focus was seeing if we could maintain the clean sheet and I thought the level of performance throughout the 90 minutes was really good."I thought we controlled the game, if I am totally honest.

In the first half there maybe wasn't that quality in the final third, it was a little bit too rushed and we were too quick to get the ball into the box, as opposed to being a bit more patient."In terms of general play, we controlled large parts of that game, which forced Raith into making a substitution and a formation tweak, trying to flood players forward towards the end."Raith are a good side, they will be up there at the end of the season and it is about us making sure we learn from this performance and take confidence from it."So far, they are the benchmark in terms of league leaders and with our performance we shouldn't really fear anyone."Airdrie certainly didn't have it their own way, with Raith hitting the