Inverness boss Richie Foran hopes that his side's poor spell is a thing of the past after they convincingly saw off Dundee 3-1.

The Highland side built on the performance that saw them snatch a point from Celtic to punish a sluggish Dundee side, with goals from Lonsana Doumbouya, Greg Tansey and Liam Polworth.

Nicky Low pulled back a consolation goal for the Dark Blues late in the day, but Inverness comfortably claimed all three points.

Caley Thistle are now unbeaten in their last four games and four points from their last two league encounters hauls them out of the bottom two and towards the right end of the table.

And Foran is particularly pleased with the clinical nature of his side's performance, after they banished the memory of their poor start to the season.

"We scored goals at the right time," he said. " Early in the first and second halves. We've taken three of five or six chances, which was brilliant. The back four, along with Owain (Fon Williams, Inverness goalkeeper), were colossal," said Foran.

"We can pass the ball a bit better and there's a lot more to come from us, but it's pleasing.

"We're going in the right direction. Hopefully our bad spell is out the way - there was no panic after the start. It never affected us mentally and we've got the results recently.

"We're trying to catch the team in front of us and we've got another tough game next weekend, but it's pleasing at the moment."

He also believes there will be more to come from Doumbouya, who netted his first goal for the club on his second start.

"It's a fantastic header. Brad has picked him out well but there's not pace on the cross. He's a big boy and wants to attack crosses - with two out-and-out wingers out there we wanted them taking people on and getting balls into the box," added Foran. "He'll thrive on service like that. We were a real threat at set pieces too.

Meanwhile, his Dundee counterpart Paul Hartley fully understood why his side would come in for criticism after their performance.

Hartley had spoken out in the press earlier on Saturday to bemoan the negativity in Scottish football and adding that Dundee had come in for some unfair criticism.

However, he struggled to find any positives from their trip to the Highlands, which extends their record to 16 games against Inverness without a win.

"The performance wasn't good enough and I'll accept criticism in terms of this. Too many of them had a bad day at the office," he said.