THE MATCHDAY THREAD Discuss ICT & other games in this thread as they happen Alloa Athletic -V- Inverness CT PREVIEW 27th April 2019 @ 3PM, Recreation Park, Alloa Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook Go to the Chatroom Media Coverage   AUDIO COVERAGE BBC Sportsound BBC Sportsound [UK Only]   LIVE TEXT (ONLINE) Sporting Life BBC    VIDEO SPFL YouTube Channel ICT Official YouTube Channel   TEAM LINEUPS TO FOLLOW   Tweets by @ICTFC Tweets by @ICTFC

Partick 1-0 up on Ayr puts us into 3rd place by one point - but it's vital that we pick up all three today.

Alloa 1 - 0 Inverness

Penalty

Penalty to Alloa....... which they score !!!!! 1-0 !!! ?

And Ayr have equalised, so we are now one point behind them.  Time to get the finger out...

Funny how every other team you can rely on to convert a penalty! We can't even do that right ?

Trafford booked now ?

No shots on target in the first half. I would like to think that is addressed in the second half. 

1 minute ago, jed5697 said:

No shots on target in the first half. I would like to think that is addressed in the second half. 

By replacing Polworth with Austin? 

1 - 1

 

Rooney

Good to see the big man getting another goal !!!! 

Ayr now winning 2-1, so we need to win too.

Inverness 2 - 1 up

 

Trafford

 

Good turnaround

Robbo must have gave them a good bollocking at half time !!!!?

FT 1-2 ........ Good to get a win !!!!?

Well done, lads!   Level on points with Ayr, but 5 goals behind on GD.   Ayr at home to Alloa next Saturday.

Good away win against a team fighting for their Championship lives to maintain positive momentum going into the play offs.

Still a chance of pipping Ayr for third place.

We think we've had it bad since we won the cup. Maybe we should spare a thought for our cup final opponents who remain favourites to be plying their trade in the third tier next season.

Good win but we could do with the strikers scoring too....

As long as someone scores,I'm happy

17 minutes ago, Huisdean said:

As long as someone scores,I'm happy

Are you on a stag-do ?

Good result against a team that's been battling hard for survival.

Also, our first win there for 16 years! Paul Ritchie got a hatrick that day in a 5-1 win.

39 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Good result against a team that's been battling hard for survival.

Also, our first win there for 16 years! Paul Ritchie got a hatrick that day in a 5-1 win.

What we would give to have Paul Ritchie in his prime up front for the plays offs.

An absolutely dreadful first half performance today. Things improved after the break despite rather odd substitutions. Felt a bit backs to the wall when Tremarco limped off leaving us with only 10 men for last 15 minutes. A good three points but we will need to see a vast improvement to make progress in the play-offs.

One point I would make is that Robbo should be using up all his jambo  brownie points to get Dario Zanatta in on loan next season. I lost count of the number of times he skinned Rooney today.  Think he'd be an excellent addition to the squad.

Nearly every winger has skinned Rooney this season . We can’t sign them all 

Tremarco,  injured again...

As @ymip says the first half performance was pretty rotten. We tried to force our way through the middle of the pitch a lot of the time which was pointless as Alloa frequently had nine men behind the ball and were very disciplined defensively and broke with real pace whenever our attacks broke down which was quite often. The likes of Polworth and Chalmers tried to force balls through to White or Doran / MacDonald cutting in from the flanks but they never found their man. Our best chance probably came when Doran chipped a ball in from the left flank but it evaded White and MacDonald. Prior to this Alloa had taken the lead from the penalty spot when Donaldson bundled over Zanatta and Trouten easily found the net sending MacKay the wrong way.

We were lucky to just be one down at the break but Robbo shuffled the pack taking Polworth and MacDonald off for Austin and McCauley and going two up front with Austin slightly withdrawn off White. With this change we were a lot better and started to find a bit of space in wide areas to send a few decent crosses in which Alloa struggled to deal with at times. A Rooney header at the back post was a sign of things to come as Alloa started to struggle with our balls in from the flanks. Chalmers found himself with a bit of time on the left side to loft the ball into the area which Alloa only partially cleared and Rooney strode on to the loose ball to blast in the equaliser. 

White almost bagged a second goal moments later but Parry was equal to his effort. However we weren't to be denied with Chalmers again the provider. A low corner was hooked into the box by Chalmers and Trafford arrived at the near post to flick the ball into the net. 

Alloa nearly drew level late on when MacKay spilled a long range effort but was alert to get up and fist the loose ball away before any of the home teams players could seize on the opportunity. There then came a penalty appeal when Graham (?) fell over under pressure from McCart who was clearly incensed and his anger set off a bit of a stramash between the sides but ended with McCart going into the book. 

Fortunately we hung on. Not our finest performance of the season but it could be a vital win for us. The extra money from 3rd place would be very welcome as Robbo has said already this week. McCart was an absolute stand out for us and a clear MotM. We'll need to improve a lot if we want to progress through the play offs.