Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Caley continue comeback as they thump City
INVERNESS Caley Thistle brushed aside Brechin City with minimum fuss last night to move up a place to seventh in the Championship table.
The Highlanders responded in the best possible way to Saturday’s defeat to St Mirren.
Goals from Brad McKay, John Baird, Connor Bell and George Oakley won it for Caley.
Darren Dods’ side as now gone all 14 games without a league win this season, with only the cup victory over Buckie Thistle to their name.
Disappointed Brechin boss Dods said: “We have defended set-pieces well against other teams but against Inverness we seem to go to pieces.
“We just can’t seem to defend corners against them. We have recently taken a step forward but tonight was a step back.“
ICT manager John Robertson was delighted and stressed: “If somebody had told me 4-0 before the game started I would have taken it. We should have, if I’m nit-picking, scored more. At times we didn’t move it fast enough.”
Caley were ahead after seven minutes. Liam Polworth’s corner swerved into the path of McKay six yards out and the defender slammed a shot high into the roof of the net.
Two minutes later, Baird doubled the lead with his third of the season.
Bell stooped to meet a Polworth corner with his head for the third before Oakley got the final goal on 87 minutes.
ST MIRREN returned to the top of the Championship with a 3-1 win over Livingston in Paisley last night. Livi took the lead through Dale Carrick but three goals in the second half from Lewis Morgan, Adam Eckersley and an Ian McShane penalty secured victory.