Wood you believe it!


Inverness pummelled the Hearts goal but the woodwork came to the Jambos rescue on a number of occasions to keep the score blank. When the woodwork was beaten, Jamie MacDonald was once again in fine form to deny the reluctant strikers of the home side with a series of excellent saves, and some great goal line clearances ensured the Edinburgh side went home with a valuable point.

Inverness started the game with Foran on the bench and what looked like their strongest eleven on the park with Vincent and Watkins on from the start, along with Greg Tansey.

The pattern of the game was set early on after Ryan Stevenson fired a warning shot across the Inverness bows.

After that, it was constant pressure from Inverness who looked eager to score. Maybe too eager as a little composure might have seen some goals scored, but it all became a bit too frantic as chance after chance went abegging, the home side electing to take an extra touch or try to tee up someone else rather than take the bull by the horns.

Inverness' wide players were having a field day with Watkins and Doran able to beat their man at will, but the final ball all too often going astray.

When we did get a shot away, the woodwork was in brilliant form, denying Watkins, McKay, Raven and Tansey in a first half totally dominated by Inverness.

Danny Wilson blocked a McKay effort and Jordan McGhee cleared a Watkins shot off the line, but the ball would just not fall kindly for Inverness as MacDonald staged a one man blockade to deny Inverness as he made a TV save to deny a Tansey header.

Half Time 0-0

The process continued after the break, but Hearts realised it might just be their day and tried to smuggle the points out of Inverness. The ever popular Jamie Hamill tried a long range shot which went just wide but the domination continued and MacDonald denied Tansey with a superb save low down to his right.

A few more scrambles in the Hearts box kept the fans interested but the extra touch thwarted the Inverness forwards as they seemingly tried to walk the ball into the net.

With Hearts still in the game. they realised they might just get all three points and pushed forward late in the game, Hammil and McCallum having the best opportunities, but after dominating for so long, Inverness were not going to concede now and the game ended scoreless.

Full Time 0-0



Shooting practice might just be on Yogi's agenda this week after our forwards failed to make the most of our superiority, but credit also has to go to a battling Hearts side desperately looking to avoid the drop. Marley Watkins was probably our most likely match winner but like the rest, he failed to hit the net. Good to see Foran back, and he added some urgency when he came on, but in the end we had to settle for a share of the points.

At least we kept eleven men on the park this time...............meh

 
Inverness CT: 0
Lineup: Brill, Raven, Warren, Meekings, Shinnie, Watkins, Ross, Draper, Tansey, Doran, Vincent (Foran 74), McKay

Booked: Tansey
Sent Off: none

Hearts: 0
Lineup: MacDonald, McGowan, McKay, Wilson, McGhee, Hamill, Robinson, Carrick (King 74), Stevenson, Nicholson, McCallum

Subs (not used): Ridgers, Holt, Oliver, Beith

Booked: McCallum, Robinson
Sent Off: none