Preview Partick Thistle

Ladbrokes Championship: Saturday 8th December 2018, 3.00pm at the Energy Check Stadium at Firhill

After the resounding 3-0 home win over Morton last Saturday the next game cannot come quick enough for Allan Johnston’s team. While the Pars had something to celebrate their next opponents were sliding to the foot of the table. That said the trip to Glasgow will probably be to meet an even more determined Thistle who are now under the direction of Gary Caldwell.

Milestones Partick (away)
Last League Victory | 25/09/10 | 2-0 | First Div
Last League Defeat | 10/11/12 | 1-5 | First Div
Best League Victory | 20/04/66 | 6-2 | Div One*
Worst League Defeat | 10/11/34 | 1-7 | Div One*
*Pre league reconstruction

In the previous 83 league meetings Dunfermline have won 34, Partick 26 and 23 have been drawn but at Firhill the home side has the upper hand with 27 wins to 14.

Dunfermline v Partick Thistle: The Full League Record
P | W | D | L | For | Agst
43 | 20 | 14 | 9 | 71 | 57 | At East End Park
40 | 14 | 9 | 17 | 50 | 69 | At Firhill
45 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 77 | 72 | Division One (up to 1975)
6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | Premier Division (since 1975)
30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 32 | 40 | First Division (since 1975)
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Championship
83 | 34 | 23 | 26 | 121 | 125 | TOTALS

Last Twelve League Matches v Partick Thistle

The last dozen league games between the teams have seen Dunfermline win four, draw three and lose five.

Date | H/A | F-A | Scorers
28/09/18 H 1-0 [1-0] Connolly
27/04/13 A 3-3 [0-1] McMillan, [1-1] Wallace, [2-1] Thomson, [3-1] Thomson, [2-3] Erskine, [3-3] Lawless.
02/03/13 H 0-4 [0-1] Craig, [0-2] Forbes, [0-3] Craig, [0-4] Craig.
10/11/12 A 1-5 [0-1] Lawless, [1-1] Muirhead og, [1-2] Balatoni, [1-3] O`Donnell, [1-4] Forbes, [1-5] Lawless.
18/08/12 H 0-1 [0-1] Lawless
26/03/11 H 0-0
29/01/11 A 0-2 [0-1] [0-2]
14/12/10 H 0-0
25/09/10 A 2-0 [1-0] Clarke, [2-0} Kirk.
23/03/10 H 1-2 [0-1] Buchanan, [1-1] McDougall, [1-2] Donnelly
23/01/10 A 4-1 [1-0] Cardle, 2-0] Cardle, [3-0] Cardle, 4-0] Woods, [4-1] Buchanan
14/11/09 H 3-1 [1-0] McDougall, [2-0] Gibson, [2-1] Cairney, [3-1] Gibson

Last meeting at Firhill
Partick Thistle 3 Dunfermline 3
28 April 2013, First Division

The Pars travelled to Firhill to face a Partick team that had secure the First Division title. The season still had two fixtures to complete the league programme and the Pars required precious points from those last two fixtures to avoid the play offs. Partick went ahead in 27 minutes. Chris Erskine did all the hard work to lay off a fine ball for former Pars captain Jordan McMILLAN to shoot across Michal Hrivnak and find the net to the keeper`s right. 1-0

Dunfermline got an equaliser in 65 minutes as a result of great work by Stephen Husband on the right edge of the Thistle box. He picked out Ryan WALLACE who took a touch and found the net at the bottom right. 1-1

Seven minutes later Wallace had his shot parried by Scott Fox but Ryan THOMSON was well placed to slot home. 1-2

Then from an 80 minute corner that Wallace sent over from the left, Husband could not control the ball first time but he toed it back towards the left post where THOMSON headed in the Pars third! 1-3.

Four minutes later ERSKINE squeezed in a second for Thistle to create a nervy end to a game. 2-3

The Pars fans were pleading for referee Willie Collum’s final whistle but with 49 minutes 15 seconds of the second half gone a Thistle ball from the left just could not be cleared and Steve LAWLESS was able to sink the ball into the net low to the left. 3-3.

PARTICK THISTLE: Scott Fox, Jordan McMillan, Andy Dowie, Aaron Sinclair, Christie Elliott (Stephen O`Donnell 60), Conrad Balatoni, Mark McGuigan (Kris Doolan 68), Chris Erskine (c), Stuart Bannigan, Ross Forbes (Steven Craig, 81), Steve Lawless
SUBS NOT USED David Wilson, Glenn Daniels (GK)

DUNFERMLINE: Michal Hrivnak, Ross Millen, Kerr Young, John Potter (Ryan Wallace HT), Callum Morris, Alex Whittle; Shaun Byrne (Andy Geggan 62), Stephen Husband, Josh Falkingham (c), Allan Smith, Ryan Thomson (Grant Munro 91).
SUBS NOT USED: Ross Drummond, Ryan Goodfellow (GK).

Form Last Six Matches

DUNFERMLINE
Morton (H) W 3-0
Ross County (A) L 1-2
Falkirk (H) L 0-1
Alloa Athletic (A) W 1-0
Inverness Caley Thistle (A) D 2-2
Dundee United (H) 0-2
Queen of the South (H) L 0-1

PARTICK THISTLE
Queen of the South (A) L 0-1
Falkirk (A) D 1-1
Inverness Caley Thistle (A) L 0-1
Morton (A) L 1-5
Ayr United (H) L 0-1
Alloa Athletic (A) L 0-1

League Form
Partick Thistle have lost 11 of their 15 league matches this season and of those they have lost seven by one goal. Their three wins have all been at home but their last was five matches back on 22nd September.

Dunfermline’s away form is good with just two defeats in eleven games in all competitions this season. Their two league defeats on the road have been at Ayr and Dingwall.

DUNFERMLINE
League Position: 7th
League Points: 18
League Record: P15 W5 D3 L7 GF13 GA21
Goal Difference: -5
Last Six League Match Form: LDWLLW

PARTICK THISTLE
League Position: 10th
League Points: 10
League Record: P15 W3 D1 L11 GF12 GA26
Goal Difference: -14
Last Six League Match Form: LLLLDL

DUNFERMLINE (v Morton): Lee Robinson: Ryan Williamson, Lee Ashcroft (c), Danny Devine, Jackson Longridge: James Vincent: James Craigen, Joe Thomson, Robbie Muirhead (Myles Hippolyte 89): Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Lewis McCann 89), Aidan Keena (Tom Beadling 84).
SUBS NOT USED: Malaury Martin, Lewis Martin, Stuart Morrison, Cammy Gill (GK)

PARTICK THISTLE (v Queen of the South): Jamie Sneddon: James Penrice, Niall Keown (Miles Storey 84), Sean McGinty, Tam Scobbie, Blair Spittal, Stuart Bannigan, Chris Erskine (Jai Quitongo 81), Aidan Fitzpatrick, Chris Elliott, Kris Doohlan (Andrea Mbuyi-Mutombo 65)
SUBS NOT USED: Daniel Jefferies, Brice Ntambwe, Jack Storer, Jamie Stevenson (GK)

Other Ladbrokes Championship Fixtures
Ayr United v Inverness Caley Thistle - Friday 7th Dec
Falkirk v Alloa Athletic
Morton v Dundee United
Ross County v Queen of the South

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