Richie Foran admitted his Inverness CT "weren't at the races" as they suffered a 2-0 defeat to Partick Thistle on the opening weekend of the Premiership season.

The Highlanders went into the game having scored 12 goals in their previous two Betfred Cup games but were well off the pace in Maryhill.

Midfielder Chris Erskine, in his third spell with the Jags, scored with a wonderful curling shot in the 36th minute before forward David Amoo added a second after the break.

"It is probably a fair result," said the former Inverness player. "I don't know if they were two goals better than us, maybe one.

"I thought we lacked a little bit of belief, that is the hard bit to accept, the little bit of belief and confidence we have shown, we lacked a bit of that today.

"Alan (Archibald, Thistle boss) has done his homework on us as well, on our wide men. He was doubling up on them and that was causing us not to get crosses into the box.

"But we have to come up with imagination, our imagination was poor in the final third and the support to Scott Boden wasn't there.

"We weren't enough of a goal threat.

"There were some half chances, Scott (Boden) had a good chance but all in all we weren't at the races and the players know that and I know that.

"But there can't be too much gloom and doom. We don't become a bad team overnight so we will push on and hopefully get a win on Tuesday."