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8 league matches without a win now. 

 

Zilcho points from 4 games v Aberdeen, combined with zilcho points from our 3 games v Partick.  It's been an amazing season whatever happens now, but if we knew how to beat those 2 teams we could be champions!

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disappointing end to the game :sad:       could be worse though, our cup final opponents were leading 0-2 at Ibrox with 7 minutes to go only to end up drawing 2-2 with a goal scored in the last few seconds of injury time.

 

Although it was out of their hands with QOS winning today and securing the last playoff spot it must be a hard one to take .... hopefully they will be rusty nw for the final !

 

 

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Massively disappointing result. Felt like a bit of a smash and grab by Aberdeen to be honest who looked poor for much of the match until we shot ourselves in the foot by conceding two shoddy goals again from set plays (something that needs to be sorted out). After they went ahead Aberdeen comfortably saw out the rest of the match. It may be clichéd by the sign of a good is when they are playing poorly but still winning and that appears to be true for Aberdeen today.

 

We started brightly enough. Some of our passing play in and around the Aberdeen area was fantastic. Clever and intricate one touch passing which carved open the Dons defence on a few occasions. Watkins and Ross both found themselves one on one with the keeper only a few yards out but each time they were denied by superb stops by Brown in the Aberdeen goal. Watkins had another good chance before half time when he scurried in behind the Aberdeen defence but blazed his effort well over. 

 

Whilst the Aberdeen defence wasn't looking to clever the Dons attack, whilst quiet on the whole, still looked threatening on occasions. A clever lobbed ball by Hayes found Rooney in some space but, under pressure, he dragged his shot wide. Rooney then headed past the post from an Aberdeen corner as he ghosted in unmarked and fortunately ICT escaped on that occasion.

 

ICT took the lead when Watkins was able to send a cross in from the left flank which Ofere headed towards goal. Scott Brown failed to hold onto the ball and fumbled it to Ofere who, whilst lying on the ground, hooked his foot round the ball to fire it into the net to give Inverness the lead. 

 

The equaliser for Aberdeen was an exceptionally poor goal to concede from an ICT point of view. A McGinn free kick on the Inverness right side was whipped across goal and it seemed to evade everyone in the box before ending up in the back of the net. No idea if it came off Raven as some are reporting regardless it was still a very disappointing goal to give away. Worse was to follow a few minutes later when Aberdeen took the lead. Esson had initially saved well from a Rooney effort but the ball fell to McGinn who netted the winner from a few yards out. I might be wrong but I think McGinn actually took the initial corner and he followed the ball in with no ICT player picking him up. Again, very poor defensively from ICT on a set piece.

 

After that Aberdeen easily controlled the rest of the game and looked comfortable for the remainder. Definitely not their finest performance but it says something that they can play poorly and still emerge with the three points in a 2nd v 3rd battle. ICT showed some great attacking play at times but poor finishing let us down badly today along with our well known problems defending set plays. The subs by Hughes were odd. I thought Ross and Christie were playing well when they came off but perhaps they were struggling after last weekends exploits. 

 

Definitely feels like a point or three thrown away as we now move on to eight league games without a win a run of form that drastically needs to be reversed if we want to finish third this season. The Scottish Cup run is fantastic but we can't lose focus on what we are trying to achieve in the league.

 

EDIT: There were two big(-ish) penalty shouts for handball in this game. The first was when an ICT player slid across goal to block a shot and, with his arm trailing along the surface behind him as he slid, blocked a shot / pass. Logan then looked like he may have moved his arm to control a bouncing ball in the box. Neither was given and the referee was, coincidentally after last weekends shenanigans, Crawford Allan :laugh:

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Great play in the first half left me thinking are we the best team in Scotland.We cut them open time and time again with neat play, which got a bit slacker in the 2nd half when they equalized.

I think there are certain players who are still improving with each game so Im not too worried whos behind us just yet.

This season should be a very wealthy one for the club and the extra money for 3rd spot would be the icing on the cake.

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I'm not a massive fan of crowd wanking but the home crowd was pretty poor in terms of turnout. I thought it looked around 4,500. A far cry from the 7,000 + turnouts we used to get v Aberdeen. Shame really as it's those who aren't there who are generally missing out.

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I'm not a massive fan of crowd wanking but the home crowd was pretty poor in terms of turnout. I thought it looked around 4,500. A far cry from the 7,000 + turnouts we used to get v Aberdeen. Shame really as it's those who aren't there who are generally missing out.

 

4530. Really thought there would be more. A hoped for honeymoon after last weekend's heroics and against 2nd place local rivals also riding high. Not quite sure what it'll take to engage more local interest in our fab team. Would be great if some of the fans that come out for the big cup days could be enthused enough to make it more regular. 

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Next week is huge but even a draw may still be enough. Saints are the main danger as they seem to have this nack of making a late charge and slipping ahead of a few to grab a European spot. But a draw would keep us 4 ahead effectively 5 with the goal difference and they have Celtic, Utd and Aberdeen to finish off the season. We have an opportunity now against all the teams around us before we play Celtic so this is the time to do it. Today was always going to be tough which could either way so to come away with defeat is disappointing but not surprising.If Celtic do us a FAVOUR FOR ONCE and win tomorrow then we could almost rap it in two games next week. A win at saints would be 7 ahead with those three to play and if we win against Utd they are gone and Utd who have to face Aberdeen next week could also be out so if we get just two wins its over and we can look forward to the final.As always Football never pans out that easy but I still think we have enough and if we can perform like the Semi and the first half today then we look to have a great chance of finishing it off.  

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