Preview Hamilton Academical

cinch Championship (home) Saturday 25th September 2021 kick off 3.00pm at East End Park

After a clean sheet against Inverness Caley Thistle and creating a number of chances to win there are signs of Dunfermline taking a step forward despite still sitting bottom of the table. This weekend’s fixture is an important one against the side just above them and a home win at East End Park would lift them off the foot.

The teams have not met in the league since season 2012-2013 when Dunfermline took seven points and Hamilton four. The sides were drawn together in the Scottish Cup in 2017 and the Accies progressed after the Fifth round tie was settled on penalties.

Hamilton are undefeated in their last seven matches at East End Park but Dunfermline had won all seven before that. In total the Pars have won 33, lost 17 and drawn 6 of the previous 56 home league matches. In total the teams have met 83 times with the Fifers having the narrowest of advantages 35 to 34 in wins with 14 drawn.

Milestones Hamilton Academical (Home)

Last Victory | 03-12-95 | 4-0 | Division 1
Last Defeat | 06-04-13 | 2-3 | Division 1
Best Victory | 11-11-72 | 7-2 | Division 2*
Worst Defeat | 20-10-07 | 0-5 | Division 1
Last Goalless Draw | 20-01-90 | Scottish Cup
First ever home meeting | 21-08-26 | 0-1 | Division 1*
*Pre league reconstruction

Last Twelve Meetings

With a 4-0 scoreline Bert Paton was last Dunfermline Athletic manager to achieve a home win over Hamilton Academical. Dunfermline have won two of the last twelve meetings, Hamilton six and four have ended all square.

14-02-17 | A | D | 1-1 | Scottish Cup
11-02-17 | H | D | 1-1 | Scottish Cup
06-04-13 | H | L | 2-3 | Division 1
09-02-13 | A | W | 2-1 | Division 1
02-02-13 | H | L | 0-2 | Scottish Cup
15-12-12 | H | D | 1-1 | Division 1
29-09-12 | A | W | 3-0 | Division 1
11-03-09 | H | D | 1-1 | Division 1
09-02-08 | A | L | 0-2 | Division 1
20-10-07 | H | L | 0-5 | Division 1
04-08-07 | A | L | 1-2 | Division 1
06-04-96 | H | L | 1-3 | Division 1

Last Meeting at East End Park
Saturday 11th February 2017, Scottish Cup
Dunfermline 1 Hamilton Academical 1

The home side had the ball in the net on 28th minute when Callum Morris leapt high to head home only for referee Craig Thomson to deem that Moffat had impeded keeper Remi Matthews’ attempt to challenge and disallowed the `goal`.

There was nothing to dispute next minute when McMULLAN latched on to a Moffat pass to find a route through the middle and blast home yet another cup goal. Paul’s fifth in cups and his first for Dunfermline at East End Park. 1-0

In the second half McMullan, Moffat and Higginbotham all came close to putting the Premier League side’s cup exit but with Sean Murdoch coming under increased pressure Hamilton found the equaliser that would take the tie to a Valentines’ night replay.

There was only a quarter of an hour to go and snow was falling when a corner from the right caused the damage. Daniel Redmond delivered the corner and the defence got the ball out only to be returned through Imrie and McMann to the diminutive REDMOND who although tracked by Moffat managed to curl the ball in at the far post. 1-1

DUNFERMLINE: Sean Murdoch: Andy Geggan (c) (Jason Talbot 39), Lee Ashcroft, Callum Morris, Lewis Martin: Paul McMullan, John Herron, Nat Wedderburn, Kallum Higginbotham: Nicky Clark, Michael Moffat (David Hopkirk 87)
SUBS NOT USED: Gavin Reilly, Joe Cardle, Rhys McCabe, Michael Paton, David Hutton (GK)

HAMILTON ACCIES: Remi Matthews: Ioannis Skondras (Scott McMann 54), Danny Seaborne, Michael Devlin (c), Massimo Donati, Grant Gillespie (Dougie Imrie HT): Darian MacKinnon, Blair Adams, Eamonn Brophy, Daniel Redmond (Gramoz Kurtaj 78), Rakish Bingham
SUBS NOT USED: Ronan Hughes, Craig Watson, Ross Cunningham, Gary Woods (GK).

Recent Form

Hamilton are two points better off than Dunfermline after both sides made disappointing starts to their league campaigns. Although the visitors have lost all three of their home matches in the league and have not scored a goal in any of them, they have gained all their points on the road and scored six times.

The Pars picked up a point at home last time out against an on-form Inverness team and will take confidence from that following previous home defeats to Arbroath and Partick Thistle.

Last six matches

DUNFERMLINE
Inverness Caley Thistle (H) D 0-0
Ayr United (A) L 0-3
Arbroath (H) L 0-3
Rangers (A) L 0-5
Partick Thistle (H) L 0-3
Morton (A) D 2-2

HAMILTON ACADEMICAL
Ayr United (H) L 0-2
Arbroath (A) L 0-4
Hearts U20 (H) W 3-2
Queen of the South (A) W 2-1
Kilmarnock (H) L 0-2
Morton (H) L 0-1

Current League Stats

DUNFERMLINE
League Position: 10th
League Points: 2
Goal Difference: -8
League Record: P5 W0 D2 L3 GF3 GA11
Last Six Match Form: DLLLLD

HAMILTON ACADEMICAL
League Position: 9th
League Points: 4
Goal Difference: -8
League Record: P6 W1 D1 L4 GF6 GA14
Last Six Match Form: LLWWLL

Last Time Out

DUNFERMLINE (v Inverness Caley Thistle): Owain Fôn Williams: Aaron Comrie, Paul Watson, Vytas Gašpuitis, Josh Edwards: Ryan Dow, Dan Pybus (Dom Thomas 69), Graham Dorrans (c), Kai Kennedy: Nikolay Todorov (Reece Cole 82), Kevin O’Hara (Craig Wighton HT)
SUBS NOT USED: Kyle Macdonald, Paul Allan, Leon Jones, Deniz Mehmet (GK)

HAMILTON (v Ayr United): Ryan Fulton: Luke Matheson, Mihai Popescu, Brian Easton, Kieran MacDonald, Kyle Munro, Lewis Spence, Regan Mimnaugh (Miko Virtanen 79), Josh Mullin, Marley Redfern (Lewis Smith 69), Andy Ryan.
SUBS NOT USED: Ben Stirling, Shaun Want, George Stanger, Joe Hilton, Adam McGowan

Referee will be Scott Lambie.

Other Championship Fixtures

Arbroath v Kilmarnock (Friday night on BBC Scotland)
Ayr United v Morton
Inverness Caley v Queen of the South
Raith Rovers v Partick Thistle (Sunday)

Fixture kick off time amendment

Wednesday September 29
cinch Championship
Raith Rovers v Dunfermline Athletic
Live on BBC Scotland, kick-off 7.05pm

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