Morton 1 - 3 Livingston: Morton slide further down table

MORTON’S precipitous descent down the table towards a seemingly inevitable relegation scrap continued as they were consummately picked apart by slicker, hungrier and an altogether better outfit in the form of Livingston.

Against a team visibly lacking confidence on the back of a wretched run containing a few sound thrashings, the Livingston tactic was clearly to test their resolve early on, and it proved a prudent one when Mark McNulty hot-stepped past home keeper Colin Stewart before finding the net after only four minutes.

Somehow Morton survived further damage amidst a constant pounding brought on largely by a litany of their own errors to somehow level matters midway through the half courtesy of a thumping Peter MacDonald header. MacDonald saw his free kick repelled by Livi keeper Andy McNeil, soon after, however, the revival was swiftly nipped in the bud when former Morton striker Iain Russell slipped a shot under a culpable looking Stewart to regain the lead.

The game was over as a contest six-minutes after the restart. Craig Barr was the only man attacking the ball amongst a posse of ponderous defenders, and he got his just desserts by planting a low header past Stewart as Livingston ran out comfortable winners.