Craig Brewster, the Inverness Caledonian Thistle, will use a sense of injustice to motivate his players ahead of tonight's home fixture with Falkirk.
The two teams met at the Falkirk Stadium 15 days ago in the Co-operative Insurance Cup quarter-final and it was he home side who went into the last four - they will find out their semi-final opponents when the draw is made this afternoon - with a 1-0 win.
However, the Highland men believed Neil McCann was in an offside position when he headed the only goal, and were also aggrieved because they felt they should have had a penalty for a foul on Adam Rooney.
Brewster admitted: "You use anything you can to motivate the players - we will certainly be reminding them of how well they played that night.
"We've played well against Falkirk twice this season. We have won one in the league and we were very unfortunate second time around in the cup, losing to an offside goal and a penalty decision we never got.
"That was a disappointing night but it is in the past and now we have to use home advantage, which is something we have not done well enough so far this season."
Inverness continued their impressive away form with a victory at Hibernian last Saturday, but have just one win from six matches at the Caledonian Stadium.
Brewster added: "We have not had good results at home, although the performances have been reasonably good.
"We just haven't managed to find that winning formula too often and we need to change that. At the end of the day, we know what we have to do. We are as good as anybody at passing the ball about, but we have to win the other side of the game first."
This is the first of a home double-header for Inverness, with Hearts visiting this weekend. Brewster added: "I said before the Hibs game that this was going to be a big week for us.
"The players responded really well on Saturday and now we have to make home advantage count."
Meanwhile, Darren Barr, the Falkirk captain, is hoping his side can begin turning draws into the victories that will see them climb the table.
John Hughes' side have drawn their last two matches, 0-0 at home to 10-man Dundee United and 1-1 away to bottom side Hamilton to find themselves languishing in 10th place in the table.
Barr, who retained his place in the Scotland squad announced yesterday for the visit of Argentina to Hampden next week, said: "We've got standards and we always want to keep playing to those standards.
"But even though we didn't play to our best on Saturday, we still ground it out and got the draw. We've drawn a few games recently, but we do feel we're getting there. We didn't play as well as we could on Saturday, but hopefully we can do that against Inverness.
"The gaffer's trying to tell us we need to click in every game. We can't just be one game good and one game bad - we need a bit of consistency at a good level.
"You can see with Dundee United what they have done by putting a consistent run together. They're doing really well and they're up to third.
"We're only five points away from fourth place and that just shows you how close the league is this year. It's so up and down at the moment that it's frightening, but hopefully we can start moving up the table."
Hughes has said he feels his players are trying too hard and need to relax out on the pitch. Barr admitted: "Sometimes we do try to force it and suffer because of that, but that's only because the boys want to do so well.
"It's a hard one to balance. We want to do what we do in training in the games. If we don't do that, it's frustrating."
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