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On the road again

 

As Canned Heat once said, we're on the road again. It's our third Championship away day on the trot as we head for Somerset Park to take on one of the early pacesetters in Ayr United. Our last two league games went well, but a drab Challenge Cup tortuous affair against Brechin City has taken the gloss of those league performances. Kick-off is at 3:00pm across the Championship this weekend and victory for Inverness on Saturday would put us level with the Honest Men on fourteen points. On the other hand, defeat would leave us trailing the leaders by six points.

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Venue H2H v Ayr United Pld Won Drn Lst For Agst + / -
Home 22 10 10 2 36 22 +14
Away 23 10 6 7 44 30 +14
Neutral 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 45 20 16 9 80 52 +28
Last 10 Competitive Meetings v Ayr United
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Fairly even last season but our overall Head2Head v Ayr shows that we hold the Indian sign over them, although it's much closer at Somerset Park.

Biggest Victories (click on scores to see reports)
Apr 24th, 2010 League (A) 7 - 0
Heaviest Defeats
Nov 28th, 2001 League Cup (Quarter Final) (A) 1 - 5

 

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Pts
 
1. Partick Thistle 7 4 2 1 16 10 14
2. Ayr United 7 4 2 1 14 10 14
3. Queens Park 7 4 1 2 12 11 13
4. Inverness CT 7 3 2 2 11 9 11
5. Dundee 7 3 1 3 13 11 10
6. Raith Rovers 7 3 0 4 8 10 9
7. Morton 7 2 2 3 6 7 8
8. Hamilton Ac. 7 1 4 2 7 10 7
9. Cove Rangers 7 1 2 4 9 13 5
10. Arbroath 7 1 2 4 5 10 5

SATURDAY 1ST OCTOBER

Ayr United v Inverness   

     Cove v Arbroath

Accies v Dundee

Partick v Morton 

Queens v Rovers  

Last Time Out

Last league game for Inverness was a satisfying 2-3 win at Dens Park after coming from behind. Cammy Harper was the hero with a couple of sublime left foot strikes from distance and Billy Mckay from the spot just before the interval. Coming off the back of a 0-2 win at Starks Park, eyebrows were raised slightly, but a thoroughly deflating Challenge Cup draw with Brechin City has brought us back down to earth with a bang. Still, we did go through on penalties so that was a bonus.

Ayr United's last league game saw them lose 3-2 to Raith Rovers, going down to a late goal after Brad Young and Andy Murdoch had tied the score at two apiece. That was a disappointing result for Lee Bullen's men after they had just beaten Morton, Dundee and Cove Rangers in the previous three games. Last week Morton gained some revenge by knocking Ayr out of the Challenge cup after a 1-1 draw and a penalty shoot-out.

Latest Team News

We still have a handful of players out injured, mainly Sutherland, Walsh, Welsh, MacGregor, Samuels............ Max Ram returned against Brechin City and played for an hour, coming through unscathed but is not 100% fit. Four or five were also rested last week and I would expect to see Billy Mckay, Mark Ridgers and David Carson back in the starting XI.

Straight from the horses mouth, here's Billy 🦓

 

Eric has written a book about Ayr (also available in hardback 😂)

Useless facts; of the Championship teams, Ayr United have the largest squad at 28, the lowest average age of 22.7 years and the highest percentage of foreign players 39.3% (11 players).

With manager Lee Bullen arriving halfway through last season there were, at my count, 33 players that went through the books as he sought to avoid the relegation zone. Who knew :shrug:

The last tranche of players to leave Somerset Park were.

Mateusz Miller a young keeper has joined East Kilbride reserves.

From the backs gone are Jack Baird off to Morton, Aaron Muirhead on a free to Partick, James Maxwell loan period from Rangers concluded and Blaine Rowe another loan player returned to parent club Coventry City.

Midfield player Alex Kenyon is now with Chester FC and Kerr McInroy back to Celtic after loan.

Front man Tomi Adeloye departed to Swindon Town and left winger Ryan Gondoh is now at Sevenoaks FC.

Drafted into the Ayr squad at the start of this season:

A pair of centre backs, Frankie Musonda who was at Raith Rovers the last couple of seasons and Alex Kirk on loan from Arsenal U21, he was also in youth and U18 squads.

In the middle of the park there are a number of additions.

David Bangala defensive midfield arrives from Latvian side FK Pohronie, spent formative years with French sides.

Central midfielder Ben Dempsey has made his move to Ayr after a short loan there last season.

Carter Jenkins has been promoted to the first team squad from the U18 set up, another defensive midfielder.

Josh Mullin is on loan from Livingston and was at Hamilton last season.

Attacking midfield player Jayden Mitchell-Lawson signed from Swindon Town was a product of the Derby youth system.

On the right-wing Dario Viviani is another player stepping up from Ayr U18s.

Dipo Akinyemi is a centre forward brought in from Welling United, he is a man of many clubs in the National League South, 6th tier of English football.

Having come through the Aston Villa youth teams Brad Young is a centre forward on loan for the season.

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Ayr dominant at the break

Ayr were one of the early leaders ahead of the visit from the Caley Jags. They strengthened their push for promotion by adding the man with the sweet left foot to their squad ahead of this encounter, Logan Chalmers, and he started on the bench today.  Inverness were still without a handful of players although Max Ram played for an hour last week against Brechin City and he and Roddy MacGregor were on the bench after a few weeks out with injury.

Ayr got the game underway and forced two early corners before Andy Murdoch shot wide in the third minute. Inverness responded with Steven Boyd winning a corner from a deflected shot and Ayr cleared ball effectively.

In the twelfth minute, a Mark McKenzie header hit the bar and out for a goal kick after Josh Mullen had crossed into the box. Big let off for the visitors.

Quarter of an hour gone and the two Mackay's combine before Daniel brings out an excellent save from Albinson at his near post and Murdoch's looped header cleared Mark Ridgers' crossbar.

Billy Mckay sliced wide after Dan Mackay's shot from the left side was blocked and fell for Billy on the volley.

More Ayr pressure saw a Mullin effort blocked and Musonda headed over the subsequent corner midway through the half. Ayr were racking up the corners in the first half with half an hour played, one every three minutes and counting with Sean McGinty next to head wide.

ImageTen minutes before the break a rare foray forward saw George Oakley and Mckay interact but the latters cut back was cleared by the defence and five minutes before the interval McKenzie shot wide from six yards after good work by Akinyemi. We went in level at the interval but Ayr were knocking on the door with some intent.

HALF TIME: 0-0

 

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Three away wins on the spin!

Partick battered Morton today so Friday will be tough, but we want revenge on them!

Well done to the players today. If we rode our luck in the first half, they got the job done after the break.

Harper with the winner again!

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Second Half:

Having been on the back foot for most of the first forty-five, Inverness stunned Ayr by opening the scoring through Cammy Harper with a glancing header into the bottom corner two minutes after the break from a Boyd cross. What a start to the second half from the visitors and Oakley had a header saved by Albinson ten minutes later when he met David Carson's cross at the back post.

Substitute Jayden Mitchell-Lawson went close two minutes after coming on, shooting just wide from eighteen yards and Brad Young forced Ridgers into making a save from his header. 

Dodds replaced Dan Mackay with Aaron Doran with some twenty minutes left but it was Ayr substitute Logan Chalmers that shot over soon after with Jordan Houston following suit.

ImageA Dempsey corner looked to be cleared away from the line as Ayr pushed for an equaliser with three minutes remaining and the same player shot over in the dying ember, but that was it as Inverness held out for their third win on the bounce away from home. Another tremendous result on the road for Dodds' men, now level on 14 points with Ayr and third equal in the table.

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Hopefully this impressive league run of consecutive away wins at Raith, Dundee and Ayr will generate more posts than the fury from some about a weakened ICT side scraping past Brechin in an insignificant tournament!

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28 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Hopefully this impressive league run of consecutive away wins at Raith, Dundee and Ayr will generate more posts than the fury from some about a weakened ICT side scraping past Brechin in an insignificant tournament!

I agree but we do still need to be more consistent than we have been. If we get a result on Friday, my confidence will grow significantly.

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