Arbroath must find a way to arrest their slide when they visit Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish Championship this Saturday. The Gayfield side have lost four of their last five league games, a slump that has left them in eighth place with 11 points from 10 matches, a record of three wins and two draws against five losses.
Their most recent outing was a 2-1 home defeat to Greenock Morton last weekend. MacIntyre scored a second-half consolation for Arbroath, but an own goal and an early penalty had already put the game beyond them. That result followed a 3-0 loss away to Partick Thistle, meaning they have conceded five times without reply in their last two away fixtures.
Recent struggles
Arbroath's form reads one win and four losses from their last five, a sequence that includes heavy defeats to Raith Rovers and Stenhousemuir. They have scored just seven goals all season, the lowest tally in the division, while conceding 15. This leaves them with a goal difference of minus eight, a significant factor in their current league position. Their recent form of one win and four losses, specifically two consecutive defeats, has seen them fall 11 points behind the league leaders. The team's top scorer this season is R. Callachan, who has yet to find the net in his one appearance.
Inverness present a tough challenge, sitting two places and two points above Arbroath in sixth. The Highlanders have had mixed results themselves, losing to Queen's Park last time out but beating Morton and Ayr United in September. The last meeting between these sides at Gayfield Park in August ended in a goalless draw, a result Arbroath would likely take again to stop the rot.
Key players like McKenna, who provided the assist for MacIntyre's goal, will need to influence the game more in the final third. The trip to the Tulloch Caledonian Stadium kicks off at 3pm on Saturday, a key fixture as Arbroath look to climb away from the lower reaches of the table. Their next fixture is away to sixth-placed Inverness CT on Saturday 17 October.
