Saturday 21 March 2015 20:21, UK
Partick boss Alan Archibald was delighted his team managed to record consecutive league victories for the first time in over two years with a 1-0 win against Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
Stevie Lawless scored six minutes from time as the Jags followed up their 3-0 victory over St Johnstone last week with another home win.
The last time Partick managed to string together back-to-back triumphs was when they were playing in the First Division, and Archibald was thrilled to get that monkey off their back at last.
"I didn't realise it had gone on as long as that, but we're delighted," Archibald said. "It's been lingering on a long time and it makes it awkward at the press conferences because every time we win it gets brought up, so we're delighted to put it to bed."
Although Archibald conceded the match was untidy, he was just happy to secure another victory.
He said: "I didn't think there was a lot in it. I think the pitch, albeit it might look ok from eye-level, it's horrible, it's really bobbly and it doesn't make for great football. We get our goal just by knocking it up and Stevie Lawless got on to the second ball and it's a good finish.
"It was a very scrappy game but we'll take that, we know there's going to be more games like that. It's always tough at the bottom of the league and we'll take a 1-0 victory all day long.
"If you ask any of the fans in the stadium they would probably have said that the team most likely to score would have been Inverness in times gone by, because we've been on the wrong side of late goals, so it feels really good to get one, and a winner as well because it's happened to us on enough occasions."
Inverness manager John Hughes felt his team lost their way after the interval, and he was not pleased with the concession of the goal.
"We were the better team in the first half," he said. "We dominated the football and we should have scored one or two goals if we were a little bit more clinical in front of goal.
"We had a solid shape, we passed it quite well on a sticky pitch, but the problem was that in the second half we were miles off it and not doing what we were doing in the first half.
"We never got on it, never passed it, played it too straight, and that put us on the back foot. We kept giving the ball away, and all credit to Partick, that gave them the incentive to get on the front foot and they got their goal.
"I'm a little bit disappointed in the goal, we should have been round about the second ball so to see it nestle in the bottom corner was a little bit disappointing. I thought we were not too bad first half, but second half, miles off it."
