30th Mar 2024 Partick Thistle 1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 0 (SPFL Championship - game 31)

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Match Information

37y, 3m, 19d			Kris Doolan		Duncan Ferguson
Ben Stanway
Kerr McInroy
Scott Robinson (1-0, 41 mins)
none (1-0, 41 mins)
Luke McBeth					Cammy Kerr
					Cammy Kerr (@ 1-0, 66 mins)
Ben Stanway (Blair Alston, 75 mins); Aidan Fitzpatrick (Kieran Ngwenya, 80 mins); Scott Robinson (Zander MacKenzie, 90+3 mins)					Wallace Duffy (Aaron Doran, 57 mins); Billy Mckay (Aribim Pepple, 78 mins); James Carragher (Adam Brooks, 90 mins); Morgan Boyes (Roddy MacGregor, 90 mins)
33y, 11m, 26d			David Mitchell		Mark Ridgers former Jag
26y, 3m, 12d			Jack McMillan		Wallace Duffy
27y, 5m, 1d			Harry Milne		Cameron Harper
24y, 6m, 21d			Luke McBeth		James Carragher
33y, 7m, 0d			Aaron Muirhead		Remi Savage
20y, 10m, 15d			Lewis Neilson		Morgan Boyes
19y, 6m, 10d			Ben Stanway		Cammy Kerr
32y, 11m, 18d			Steven Lawless		Samson Lawal
36y, 4m, 7d			Brian Graham		Billy Mckay
32y, 0m, 19d			Scott Robinson		Alex Samuel
23y, 0m, 10d			Aidan Fitzpatrick		Max Anderson
28y, 2m, 27d
28y, 11m, 20d			Ross Stewart		Cammy Mackay
21y, 6m, 5d			Kieran Ngwenya		Danny Devine former Jag
32y, 0m, 7d			Blair Alston		Aaron Doran
18y, 7m, 2d			Zander MacKenzie		Roddy MacGregor
17y, 5m, 11d			Ché Campbell		Aribim Pepple
17y, 2m, 19d			Thomas Horn		Adam Brooks
16y, 0m, 17d			Ceiran Loney		Nikola Ujdur

notes

Both sides generally in playing order. Both sides filled only 7 of their 9 allocated bench slots.

Match Report

TTA report

ICT hit the bar at a corner (34) but when Stanway's distance piledriver was parried, Robinson fired the loose ball home (41). A 2nd yellow reduced ICT to 10 men (66). Fitzpatrick shot inches wide but bizarrely Thistle fell back (by circumstance or choice?) and their play seriously deteriorated although Mitchell only had some routine saves to make towards the end.

TTA man of the match

The pairing of LUKE McBETH and Aaron Muirhead at the heart of the defence is paying dividends, and the back-to-back clean-sheets are thanks in no small part to their whole-hearted, physical approach.

Media report

Will Clark, 30-Mar-2024, Inverness Courier

Inverness remain four points from safety in the Championship after they suffered defeat at Partick Thistle in a game where they were reduced to 10 men. Scott Robinson gave Partick Thistle the lead 10 minutes before half time when the Inverness defence failed to pick up a rebound from a Mark Ridgers save. Cammy Kerr was sent off after picking up his second yellow card of the game after the break and Inverness were unable to recover. Arbroath’s defeat to Dunfermline means they have made no further ground on Inverness as their time in the Championship looks to be coming to an end. However, Caley Thistle are running out of time to make it out of the relegation play-off zone and being forced to continue their fight to survive in the second tier after the end of the regular season. After Ayr United’s 2-1 win over Airdrie in the Friday night game, Inverness were desperate for a victory to close the gap on the teams above. But Inverness remain four points behind Queen’s Park in eighth after they lost 2-0 at Morton.

Caley Thistle had a great chance to take the lead early on when Wallace Duffy fed Cammy Kerr at the edge of the box. He launched a powerful shot towards goal and was only denied the net by a Partick defender's leg deflecting the ball out of a corner. They went close again 10 minutes before half time when Kerr’s corner found the head of Wallace Duffy, who beat everyone in the air, but nodded the ball against the crossbar before a foul was given in the scramble afterwards. However it was Partick Thistle who took the lead before half time. Goalkeeper Mark Ridgers produced a good stop to deny a long range shot from Ben Stanway. But no defender followed up for the rebound as Scott Robinson was left unchallenged to fire home from 10-yards. Inverness claimed for a penalty on the stroke of half time when Cammy Kerr appealed that he had been fouled by Jack MacMillan. But referee John Beaton said the defensive midfielder was guilty of simulation and booked them as Inverness went one goal down into the break.

Partick should have doubled their advantage just before the hour mark when Aidan Fitzpatrick was unchallenged in the box and his low drive beat Ridgers, but shaved the right post. Inverness responded as Cameron Harper’s cross from the left wing into the box found Kerr, but he fired wide of the left post from 12-yards out. However, Kerr’s afternoon was to end minutes later, when he fouled Aidan Fitzpatrick and picked up a second yellow card. But they were unable to find the leveller as they remain four points from safety.

Reaction

Partick Thistle manager Kris Doolan (speaking to the BBC):

This stage of the season, it's about results, not performance. You want performance and results, but I think what we've done is we've played a lot better and lost. I would give credit to Inverness because they played some good stuff. It's a massive three points.

Inverness Caledonian Thistle head coach Duncan Ferguson (speaking to the BBC):

I'm not sure if it's inside the box or it's not inside the box, but it's absolutely a free-kick. It's an easy decision and then they counter attack and that's it, they score from there. It should have been a penalty if it was inside the box, or it's a free-kick on the edge of the box, and then [the referee] compounds the problem by then saying to Cammy Kerr that he's simulated the first yellow card. It's a clear free-kick.

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Stats Watch

EXCEPTIONAL LANDMARK FOR LONEY

● Ceiran Loney (16y, 0m, 17d) becomes the all-time youngest Thistle player ever to make a competitive match day squad. Ryan Scully (16y, 0m, 27d) set the previous record up at Dingwall in November, 2008.

● Scott Robinson marks his new personal best run in the team (9-not-out) by scoring the winner. All 4 of his goals have resulted in Partick Thistle wins.

● 4 of our last 8 opposition sendings-off have been Inverness CT players, 2 in the last 6 weeks. See the full list here.

● Partick Thistle go 7 home league games without defeat versus Inverness Caledonian Thistle, extending the H2H record for that category.

ongoing sequences:

● 25 games in 3rd place (30th Sep 2023 to date), an extension of the club-record for a position outwith outright top or bottom.

● 26 consecutive competitive Thistle games with a first-half goal (21st Oct 2023 to date), the longest such run since 1957-58 (28).

● 59 consecutive competitive appearances for Steven Lawless, 18th Feb 2023 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Chris Erskine - 70 games, 27th Aug 2011 to 2nd Mar 2013. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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