Preview Queens Park

William Hill Scottish Cup, Saturday 18th November, 3.00pm at Hampden Park

After not meeting for over 17 years Dunfermline and Queens Park now meet in consecutive seasons. The draw for the Third Round of the William Hill Scottish Cup sent the Pars to Hampden and it will be tenth in League One versus fourth in the Championship.

The teams have never met before in the Scottish Cup. In other cups there have been six ties with Dunfermline winning four, drawing one and losing one.

Milestones Queens Park (Home)
Last Victory 08/10/16 4-0 Challenge Cup
Last Defeat 12/08/78 0-3 Division Two*
Best Victory 20/09/72 5-1 Division Two*
Worst Defeat 22/12/49 1-6 Division Two*
* Pre Reconstruction

Last Meeting, Saturday, 8th Oct 2016
Irn-Bru Challenge Cup
DUNFERMLINE 2 QUEENS PARK 1

This was a match where Dunfermline enjoyed plenty of possession but took them into the second half before they scored. All the goals were alł to be scored by Farid El Alagui in the space of 21 minutes.

Three minutes into the second half, Michael Paton swung the ball over from the right, Lewis Martin headed down and El ALAGUI stuck the ball away from six yards out. 1-0

Then in 62 minutes Joe Cardle and Jason Talbot out wide left managed to create the opening for a cross that EL ALAGUI raced in to meet at the near post. 2-0

The unfortunate EL ALAGUI headed into his own net in 69 minutes when Darren Miller delivered a corner from the right, to revive the Spiders hopes. 2-1

DUNFERMLINE: Sean Murdoch: Ryan Williamson, Lewis Martin, Lee Ashcroft, Jason Talbot, Michael Paton, Andy Geggan (c), Rhys McCabe (Kallum Higginbotham 64), Joe Cardle: Gavin Reilly (Farid El Alagui HT), Nicky Clark (David Hopkirk 81)
SUBS NOT USED: Michael Moffat, Ben Richards-Everton, Paul McMullan, David Hutton (GK)
SCORERS: El Alagui (48, 62)

QUEENS PARK: Willie Muir: Ross Millen, Ryan McGeever (c), Adam Cummins, Craig McLeish: Darren Miller, Gregor Fotheringham (Ewan MacPherson 86), Paul Woods, Anton Brady (Liam Brown 70) Sean Burns: John Carter (Aiden Malone 58)
SUBS NOT USED: Scott Gibson, Bryan Wharton, Conor McVey, Andrew Murphy (GK)
SCORERS: El Alagui (o.g. 69)

Form last six matches

DUNFERMLINE
Falkirk (A) D 1-1
Inverness Caley (A) L 0-1
Livingston (H) W 3-1
Queen of the South (A) D 0-0
Falkirk (A) L 0-2
Dundee United (H) L 1-3

QUEENS PARK
Arbroath (H) L 0-2
Stranraer (A) L 0-3
Alloa Athletic (H) L 0-4
Albion Rovers (A) W 1-0
Forfar Athletic (H) D 1-1
Airdrieonians (A) L 2-4

Stats

Dunfermline
League Position: 4th
League Points: 21
League Record: P12 W6 D3 L3
Goal Difference: +14
Last Six Match Form: LLDWLD

Queens Park
League Position: 10th
League Points: 8
League Record: P13 W2 D2 L9 GF9 GA31
Goal Difference: -22
Last Six Match Form: LDWLLL

Queens Park have only one home win to their credit this season - against Edinburgh City in the Betfred Cup back on 22nd July. They have won just two of their 13 League One matches.

After a run in which they won eight out of nine, Dunfermline have now only won once in the last six matches.

Last Time Out



DUNFERMLINE (v Falkirk): Sean Murdoch: Ryan Williamson, Callum Morris (c), Lee Ashcroft, Jason Talbot: Kallum Higginbotham, Nat Wedderburn, Dean Shiels, Joe Cardle (Jean-Yves M`Voto 82): Declan McManus, Nicky Clark (Fraser Aird 86).
SUBS NOT USED: Aaron Splaine, Callum Smith, Andy Ryan, Lewis Martin, Cammy Gill (GK).

QUEENS PARK (v Albion Rovers): Michael White: Ross Millen, Scott Gibson, Adam Cummins, Jack Iredale (Lewis McGhee 57), Gregor Fotheringham, Dominic Docherty (James MacLennan 70), Anton Brady, Sean Burns, Chris Duff, Luke Donnelly (Thomas Orr 81)
SUBS NOT USED: Conor McVey, Luke Whelan, Owen Stott (GK)

Referee will be Steven McLean.

If a replay is required it will be played at East End Park on Tuesday 28th November, kick off 7.45pm

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