Caley Jags put 16 past Fort in cup
Fort William 0 Inverness Caley Thistle 16 North of Scotland Cup
Fort William were dumped out of the first round of the North of Scotland Cup in emphatic fashion last Tuesday night as a strong Inverness Caley Thistle side showed no mercy in inflicting a painful double-figure defeat on the Highland League side.
With a team featuring several first-team players, including five players who featured in their pre-season match against Hearts a week earlier, ICT were formidable opponents for the Fort, who named just 13 players on their team sheet.
The home side, currently rebuilding the squad under new manager Kris Anderson after some notable departures this summer, came into this game looking to make amends for the 11-1 defeat to Rothes in their first competitive game of the new season.
However, it took ICT just three minutes open the scoring and within 20 minutes the visitors were six goals to the good courtesy of braces from Daniel MacKay, Zach Elbouzedi and George Oakley – all of them players who are regular first-team squad members.
The seventh goal came immediately after the half-time restart through a deflected effort.
The Fort did manage to create some openings in the Caley defence and had a few shots on target. However, these moments were few and far between as Caley continued to batter the Fort defence.
MacKay and Oakley would both complete their hattricks, while substitute Roddy Kennedy notched a double. Donald Morrison, Jack Brown, Ross Gunn, Aidan Wilson and Charlie Trafford all got on the scoresheet to take ICT’s scoring to 16 for
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the day. This defeat meant that Fort William conceded 27 goals in their opening two matches of the new season, scoring just one.
The victory sets up a quarterfinal tie away to Lossiemouth for ICT on August 22.