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Inverness CT 3-0 St Mirren

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James Vincent scores a penalty for Inverness against St Mirren

Inverness opened their Scottish Premiership campaign with a home win against St Mirren.

St Mirren captain Jim Goodwin came closest to opening the scoring in the first half, his powerful free-kick striking the outside of the post.

A David van Zanten handball gave the hosts a penalty and James Vincent was successful from 12 yards.

Close range efforts by Aaron Doran and Billy McKay stretched the Inverness lead before van Zanten was sent off.

After finishing fourth in last season's top flight and narrowly missing out on European qualification, Terry Butcher's Inverness welcomed a St Mirren side who had ended the previous campaign second bottom, albeit with the Scottish League Cup sitting in the trophy cabinet.

And it was the Buddies who were prominent in the early stages, with summer signing Gary Harkins keen to make an impression.

The midfielder tested Inverness goalkeeper Dean Brill twice in the opening minutes and St Mirren defender Marc McAusland came forward to send an effort wide.

Graeme Shinnie could not convert with a decent chance for Inverness and Aaron Doran should have found the net after being played in by Vincent.

Brill continued to be the busier of the two keepers, with Steven Thompson also denied by Caley Thistle's summer signing.

Goodwin sought to break the deadlock following a foul around 25 yards out but the midfielder was left disappointed as his strike hit the post on its way out.

David van Zanten and James Vincent
Van Zanten was booked after conceding the penalty and received a second caution later in the match

The second half was still young when referee Kevin Clancy pointed to the spot, with St Mirren's David van Zanten adjudged to have used his arm to block Vincent's shot.

Debutant Vincent confidently converted and the Highlanders were soon two ahead.

Doran rolled the ball into the net after being presented with the ball by new St Mirren goalkeeper David Cornell's poor clearance.

St Mirren's day went from bad to worse when McKay headed home a David Raven cross and there was still more misery to come for the visitors.

Van Zanten had been booked in the wake of the penalty award and a foul on Nick Ross resulted in a second caution and an early end to the match for the defender.

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  • Comment posted by Madden83, at 17:00 3 Aug 2013

    Has to be said the bbc goal updates are shocking. Takes them an hour to announce a goal.

  • Comment posted by U14342803, at 17:21 3 Aug 2013

    I would have thought the bigger story here was that of both managers decision to only field ten players.

    Good to see the football journos at the BBC are right on top of things. Then again what with all the hear say and transfer speculation about these days they are probably too busy to report on actual facts as they are reading the tabloids and making up nonsense.

  • Comment posted by U15722314, at 17:04 3 Aug 2013

    BBC text updates not working from half time and league positions wrong

  • Comment posted by Slenderman, at 00:36 4 Aug 2013

    Buddies for the drop.

    They were shocking when Morton pumped them 4-2 in the Renf Cup.

  • Comment posted by U15676726, at 17:46 3 Aug 2013

    what a thrash...!

  • Comment posted by djh222, at 17:14 3 Aug 2013

    Great win!

    Hope the boys keep it up in the next few weeks!

  • Comment posted by U15566370, at 14:20 5 Aug 2013

    St Mirren will be OK - but only because Hearts have a team of kids with a 15 point millstone, and the fact that Hibs are the worst team in the league.

    Edinburgh Derby in 1st Div next season with Hearts going down and Hibs losing in play off.

  • Comment posted by IvanBunin77, at 15:59 4 Aug 2013

    Amazed, as an earlier poster said, that this was a 10 v 10 game, according to the BBC lineups given above. A whole new era of football. Assuming this is correct since no one has changed it since it was pointed out (along with all the misspelled names in the Thistle v DU game, which had 40 minutes of extra time according to the BBC match report!!)..

  • Comment posted by U15793929, at 13:03 4 Aug 2013

    Cracking result.

  • Comment posted by U1803943, at 13:03 4 Aug 2013

    Solid start from ICT but looks like st mirren are in for a long hard year. can see them and hearts taking the bottom 2 places.
    ICT and Ross County to be top 6 again this year

  • Comment posted by jimmyboo, at 10:37 4 Aug 2013

    It wasn't only BBC who suffered results glitch...ESPN mobile site was still locked on half time at 5.30!!

  • Comment posted by DG1969, at 21:47 3 Aug 2013

    But St Mirren are 'debt free', how could they lose?

  • Comment posted by JamesR25, at 17:38 3 Aug 2013

    Great start for caley! Lets hope for a season like last season

  • Comment posted by Robbie, at 07:29 4 Aug 2013

    Well done TB and team. Keep the Highland flag flying high!!

  • Comment posted by U13952809, at 18:48 3 Aug 2013

    Congrats Caley from worried Buddie. BBC website coverage of the match was absolutely terrible! I looked at the score during the match and post full-time and it was still showing 0-0. The feed stopped at half-time and didn't continue - shocking BBC! There were a few other English lower division matches that suffered the same fate. Football is NOT all about the EPL!!!!

  • Comment posted by U14449987, at 23:28 3 Aug 2013

    Why has this game got comments on it, but the Reading-Ipswich game doesn't? Come on BBC!

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