Robertson left thrilled by table-topping Caley
JOHN ROBERTSON was purring with delight over his team’s first-half display after surviving a late Partick Thistle fightback to move top of the Championship table.
Despite two late lapses against the Firhill team, the Inverness manager ordered his exhausted players to wipe the glum expressions from their faces at full-time.
The Highlanders are now the Championship’s only undefeated team — and their 16-match unbeaten league run now stretches back deep into last season.
‘A game is won over 90 minutes and our performance for the first 45 minutes was sensational,’ said Robertson. ‘Some of the football, movement, passing, link-up play was different class.’
With 11 minutes gone, Liam Polworth’s shot from the edge of the box was only just turned onto the post by keeper Cammy Bell but home striker Jordan White snapped up the rebound.
The second arrived after 22 minutes, with Polworth’s corner met by Coll Donaldson’s head but knocked out of a crowded six-yard box. With Partick flailing, though, it fell for Shaun Rooney to finish.
Sean Welsh then tucked away a penalty to make it 3-0 before Jags’ Miles Storey missed a spot-kick against his former club — but the visitors staged a late fightback.
Blair Spittal wriggled through to poke a shot past Mark Ridgers and then Kris Doolan bundled in stoppage-time consolation.
Thistle boss Alan Archibald said: ‘We gave ourselves a mountain to climb.’