Fraser finds the net against his former club as nine-man Ross County fall to St Mirren
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Ross County 0
St Mirren 2 (Fraser, Dennis)
Marcus Fraser came back to haunt Ross County on Boxing Day, with St Mirren scoring a 2–0 victory over his former employers.
The Staggies were reduced to nine men, with Josh Reid getting sent off in the first half and Ross Draper following suit in the second.
Fraser broke the deadlock with 15 minutes left on the clock, before Kristian Dennis scored his first goal for the club in the 86th minute to seal all three points for Jim Goodwin's men.
It was the hosts who burst into life early in the contest, with Ross Draper testing Jak Alnwick's gloves inside the first minute.
The Buddies' stopper was needed again in the fifth minute with a good double save to deny County from a corner.
First the ball came off his own defender, forcing him to parry it into the air where Ethan Erhahon headed away from the goalline.
It only went as far as Alex Iacovitti inside the box though, and the County defender rose highest to force Alnwick into action one more time.
A red card for Josh Reid at the end of the first half brought any momentum County may have built to a screeching halt.
The young full back had already been booked for a foul on Kyle McAllister in the 16th minute, and when he repeated the feat in the 37th referee Colin Steven took his name for a second time, and sent him off.
Things would go from bad to worse for the hosts on the hour mark, when Ross Draper followed Reid down the tunnel.
He was shown his first yellow card for a foul on Ethan Erhahon, which was immediately succeeded by another for pushing the St Mirren player over as he tried to get back to his feet.
If the first red card saw the Buddies' intensity levels rise, the second did so all the more, and Ilkay Durmus forced a good save out of Laidlaw from a free kick before Joe Shaughnessy volleyed wide from inside the box.
They finally found a breakthrough thanks to former County captain Marcus Fraser though, whose shot from just inside the box took a deflection on it's way past Laidlaw.
Kristian Dennis then rounded off the scoring with a simple header at the near post, which clipped the inside of the post before going in.
