Home wins a must for Archibald

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Partick Thistle manager Alan Archibald is targeting home wins for his side in order to guarantee themselves Scottish Premiership safety.

The Glasgow club host third-placed Inverness this weekend and Archibald insists that winning at Firhill is vital to his side retaining their top-flight status - especially with top two Aberdeen and Celtic to follow.

Last week's 3-0 victory over St Johnstone has opened up a 10-point gap between them and basement club St Mirren. However, with other relegation threatened teams such Ross County picking up form of late, Archibald believes his side are not yet safe from the drop.

Archibald said: We knew how tough our run was so it was vital we got three points last week and hopefully build in it this week.

We're a few wins away from safety and we've got a tough run of games but so do the other teams. We can only look after ourselves and it's vital we do that on Saturday. We're at home and that's a big thing - taking points from our home form.

All the teams at the bottom are capable of putting a run together and it's vital we use our home form to take us into that split.

We know that if we lose a game and the other teams win a game then we will get dragged back in and that's the way it is until we're mathematically safe.''