Pars hope to find that finishing touch

James Vincent insists the responsibility for Dunfermline’s lack of goals does not just lie with the forwards.

The Pars midfielder is desperate to help out on that score as they prepare to head north to play his former club Inverness Caley Thistle tonight.

They drew another blank on Saturday as they lost 2-0 to Dundee United at East End Park.

Indeed, only the Championship’s bottom two clubs – Alloa and Falkirk – have scored fewer goals than Dunfermline’s nine in the division.

Vincent himself has only found the target once this season, against Stirling Albion in a Betfred Cup group match back on July 28.

So he wants to contribute and he knows it is not only down to the frontmen to sort it out.

Vincent said: “We just haven’t been scoring enough goals and we need to improve – no doubt.

“We have been creating chances but just haven’t put them away.

“The onus to do that should not just be on the strikers but the rest of the team as well – I would certainly in that.”

Under normal circumstances, players would prefer to be on home territory as they try to recover from what was a disappointing display at the weekend.

However the Pars are struggling at home and a trip away from it all might just be what they need.

Vincent, a former Inverness Caledonian Thistle player, said: “Inverness are a good outfit with a strong defence and John Robertson has got them well organised.” include myself

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