AFTER a week dominated by off-field exchanges over the suitability of facilities – or lack of during the midweek Scottish Cup replay– Inverness did their talking on the park as they took Morton to the cleaners at Cappielow.
The final scoreline left Inverness celebrating an emphatic 6-1 win that keeps them at the top of the Championship while Morton’s troubles this season are best revealed in their position at the bottom.
Billy Dodds’ comments were sanitised in the aftermath of the win but there was little to conceal his glee at the rampant nature of a performance that delivered six goals but could well have been more.
“You try to get an edge and we were more angry on Tuesday and we wanted to turn up and show how good a team we are and that’s what we did,” he said.
“We’re all fighting against a pandemic and nothing’s ideal facilities in the pandemic but Tuesday was unacceptable and that’s why I made my case. Today was professional. It was fine, there was lighting.
“I’ve said to them for a month now that we’re going to give someone a really hard time and today we did it. That’s what we’re capable off.
“I was absolutely ecstatic after the week we’ve had going out of the Cup.”
Morton’s troubles began when Aaron Dawson’s cross from the left sailed over goalkeeper Jack Hamilton before coming off the inside of the post then hitting the stopper on the back of the head and going in.
If it was a comical opener there was little to laugh about as the goals just kept on coming. Shane Sutherland and Billy Mckay scored before Gozie Ugwu pulled one back from the spot.
Inverness simply stepped it up a gear in the second period with Reece McAlear, Sutherland and substitute Lewis Jamieson finding the net.
Interim Morton manager Derek Anderson was stunned by the result.
“We knew their tails would be up but we weren’t prepared for that,” he admitted. “As good as we were during the week was as bad as what we were today.
“We did not compete. They were first to every ball and they deserved their win.
“It was just night and day from the midweek performance. The score doesn’t lie. We now have a massive game away to Arbroath next weekend.”
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