Inverness 0 Partick 0

Photo by Jeff Holmes

Inverness are still searching for their first win of the Premiership season after a 0-0 draw with Partick.

Several good stops from Owain Fon Williams kept the home side in the game but at the other end, they found Tomas Cerny in equally assured form.

Inverness were unchanged from the side that drew with St Johnstone at the weekend, with Lewis Horner and Liam Polworth keeping their places.

Carl Tremarco returned from injury to sit on the bench while Iain Vigurs, who signed for the club for a second time on Wednesday, was alongside him.

Partick recalled Frederic Frans at the expense of Jack Hendry, while Mathias Pogba was given his first start ahead of Ryan Stevenson. David Amoo replaced David Wilson.

The hosts managed just one win in four encounters against Alan Archibald's side last season, a 2-1 win at Firhill in the Scottish Cup in February, with Partick winning all three league encounters between the two sides.

Young centre-back Liam Lindsay was called into action early in the Highlands as he threw his body in the way of a Dani Lopez effort.

Stand-in centre-back Ross Draper was the next to test the teenager's reading of the game after exchanging passes with Lopez - but fortunately for the visitors the 19-year-old got his body in the way of Draper's shot.

Thistle's first opportunity of the game came in the 25th minute through Sean Welsh. Stuart Bannigan stood a ball up into the penalty area which was flicked on by Amoo, with Welsh then grazing a header off the crossbar.

The former captain came close again with a fizzing effort on the half-hour mark. Inverness were working the ball about well but struggling to test Cerny.

The hosts were indebted to their own goalkeeper as on the stroke of half-time, when Fon Williams got down to tip Doolan's low effort round the post.

The big Welshman, signed on a free transfer prior to the club's European debut, was at his finest again on the hour as he tipped Steven Lawless' effort on to the crossbar at full stretch.

Vigurs was handed his second Inverness debut with 25 minutes to go and within two minutes found himself in the book for cleaning out Abdul Osman.

The former Ross County and Motherwell midfielder showed some neat touches, playing a part in the move that saw Danny Williams flash an effort wide.

A smart stop from Cerny denied Vigurs a goal from a free-kick, while the Czech goalkeeper then kept Williams' shot out with his feet.

A late curling effort by Ryan Christie was blocked and Andrea Mbuyi-Mutombo was denied by a recovering Frans as Inverness tried bravely, but in vain, to find a winner.