Inverness Caley Thistle head coach Scott Kellacher not looking at results elsewhere as he is only concerned about his team’s performances as they beat Kelty Hearts
Inverness Caledonian Thistle head coach Scott Kellacher praised his players for getting through a sluggish start before seeing off Kelty Hearts at New Central Park.
Alfie Bavidge scored with 19 minutes remaining to give them a 1-0 victory in their League One clash on Saturday. Inverness remain in ninth place as they are now on 25 points. But they are within touching distance of moving out of the relegation zone with Annan Athletic in eighth place on 27.
Inverness also have a game in hand on Annan as their fate to get out of the relegation zone is now in their own hands.
Next weekend, they take on Montrose who are in seventh place on 30 points and have played one game more than Inverness.
With 11 matches remaining, Inverness are 12 points off Alloa Athletic in fourth in the play-off zone. A good run of results could see them challenge for a place in the top-four at the end of the regular season.
But Kellacher is only concerned about Caley Thistle’s results and picking up points.
He said: “Whatever happens above can happen.
“What happened today was great, that is gone, now we are on to next week against Montrose.”
It was Caley Thistle’s first match in two weeks when they lost 3-0 against Arbroath.
Last week’s match against Stenhousemuir was postponed due to a frozen pitch at the Caledonian Stadium.
Kellacher said the long wait for a competitive match may have resulted in the sluggish start. But he was delighted they improved as the game went on to get a win.
He said: “I thought it was a real hard game of football with the conditions and the surface. First half I thought we were slow to get going.
“I don’t know if that was because we did not have a game last week. It took us a while to get going, although in the first half, I still think we had probably the best two chances in the game.
“That was pleasing from the first half, but we never got within our stride and it was a bit stop and start in the conditions and the wind.
“It was hard going, we have got in at half time and we spoke about how we are going to press and how to keep our shape.
“The key word we really spoke about in the dressing room was hard work. I don’t think we worked hard enough in the first half. The boys could have given more and fair play they said in the dressing room they needed to work hard.
“They are putting the onus on themselves. In the second half, from the first five minutes or so, they just grafted and worked ever so hard and it comes natural and they played and passed, everything was at a better tempo.
“The second half we were really good, we took the game to them and were on the front foot.”