We travel to Inverness tomorrow for their first, and only, meeting at the Tulloch Caledonian Stadium this season. The sides were due to meet on the 9th of January, but the fixture was postponed due to Scottish Cup action. The rearranged fixture on Tuesday the 12th was then postponed, so hopefully it will go ahead at the third time of asking.

When the two teams met in front of the BBC cameras in December it was the Highlanders who took all three points courtesy of goals from Kai Kennedy, Roddy MacGregor and Miles Storey. It was arguably our worst performance of the season, although things have picked up significantly since then.

We are on a run of five games undefeated, including four wins, with the last loss coming at the hands of Dundee on Boxing Day. Queens have netted at least two goals in each of their last five games with five different players finding the back of the net in that time.

Before last week’s 2 -1 home win over Morton, Connor Shields had scored in five consecutive games and remains the joint second highest scorer in the league with six goals. Ayo Obileye has scored four times in the Championship this season, putting him as the leagues joint top defensive goal-scorer, alongside Stephen Kingsley of Hearts.

With goal-keepers Jack Leighfield, Charlie Cowie and Dan Armstrong all missing, Josh Rae will be in the squad following his emergency loan move from Peterhead. Nortei Nortey is working his way back to full fitness and may return to the squad, while it remains to be seen whether Stephen Dobbie (groin), Gregor Buchanan (foot), Joe McKee (calf) and Harry Robinson will make it in time for Saturday. Of course, Rhys Breen made an impressive debut at centre-back against Morton, while Dapo Mebude enjoyed a short cameo appearance after joining just two days before the game.

Our hosts have a fixture backlog and have played only once in 2021, a 2-2 draw against Greenock Morton at Cappielow on Wednesday. Morton took the lead through Sean McGinty, before Inverness hit back with goals from Shane Sutherland and Daniel MacKay. Despite the Ton playing with 10-men for an hour, they equalised through Cameron Blues.

Caley Thistle sit a point below Queens in the table, although have three games in-hand.

Looking ahead to the game, Manager Allan Johnston said “We continued our good run with an important win over Morton last weekend. We played well in the first half and had a deserved lead but I was also pleased with the way the boys dug in and stood up to a tough challenge during the second half. We have been scoring goals lately and we are getting into a habit of winning games so it is good to get success.

This weekend we have a game away to a side that have been a bit of a bogey team for us, so we are hoping to stop that. We know that we will have to work incredibly hard to get a result because they are a quality side, they haven’t played much this year but they will have been working hard to keep their fitness up so I don’t think that will be a problem for them.

But our confidence is high and we are strengthening the squad and have competition for places so we are looking forward to the game”.

The match will be available to watch via PPV and will cost of £10.