Preview Queen of the South

cinch Championship (home) v Queen of the South, Saturday 11th December 2021, kick off 3.00pm at East End Park

Allan Johnston and Sandy Clark return to East End Park with their Queen of the South side which is level on 13 points with Dunfermline Athletic and Morton. The home side are undefeated against the Dumfries club in their last five games at East End Park and will be keen to repeat their winning performance against Ayr United in their last home match on 20th November.

Milestones Queen of the South (Home)
Last Victory | 17/04/21 | 3-1 | Championship
Last Defeat | 20/10/18 | 0-1 | Championship
Best Victory
30/12/72 | 6-1 | Div One (old)
16/04/11 | 6-1 | First Division
Worst Defeat | 09/12/17 | 2-5 | Championship
Last Goalless Draw | 01/09/76 | 0-0 | League Cup
First Ever Meeting | 12/12/25 | 4-0 | Second Division

Dunfermline have lost only eight of 43 league games at home to Queen of the South. They have won 28 and drawn seven.

Last Meeting at East End Park

A much needed win boosted Dunfermline`s play off hopes after Dom Thomas played a part in all three Pars goals against the Doonhamers.

The opener came in 10th minute when Thomas crashed a shot towards the left side of the Queens net, Ferguson parried it and Kevin O’HARA reacted first to net from close range.

The game would remain at 1-0 until nine minutes from time when Fraser MURRAY gave Dunfermline the second goal that they had been chasing. It came after tremendous perseverance and control from Thomas. Receiving a Whittaker pass the former Killie man carried the ball up the right, cut in choosing not to lay off to O’Hara but instead terrorising Maxwell to make ground along the byeline and tee up the on loan Hibee at the far post. 2-0

Then in 87 minutes MAXWELL hooked in a left footed shot to reduce the advantage. But in the first minute of added time Ewan HENDERSON would net a third. A long ball out of the under pressure Fifers defence drew Ferguson out of his goal but 35 yards out O’Hara beat the keeper, stopped the ball going out on the right side of goal to cut back for Thomas who picked out the on loan Celtic man. 3-1

DUNFERMLINE: Owain Fôn Williams: Aaron Comrie, Vytas Gašpuitis, Lewis Mayo, Josh Edwards: Steven Whittaker (c): Dom Thomas, Declan McManus (Fraser Murray 56), Ewan Henderson: Kevin O’Hara, Craig Wighton (Kerr McInroy 80).
SUBS NOT USED: Lewis McCann, Paul Allan, Kyle Macdonald, Matthew Todd, Cammy Gill (GK)

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH: Rohan Ferguson: Willie Gibson, Gregor Buchanan (c), Rhys Breen, James Maxwell: Ayo Obileye (Daniel Pybus, 77): Ciaran Dickson (Aidan Fitzpatrick 60), Rhys McCabe, Isaiah Jones (Stephen Dobbie 60), Connor Shields, Dapo Mebude.
SUBS NOT USED: Niyah Joseph, Nortei Nortey, Euan East, Jack Leighfield (GK).

Last Twelve League Matches v Queen of the South

Date: . . H/A WDL F-A League
02/10/21: (A) | L | 0-1 | Championship
17/04/21: (H) | W | 3-1 | Championship
27/02/21: (A) | L | 0-1 | Championship
31/10/20: (H) | W | 3-2 | Championship
07/03/20: (H) | D | 1-1 | Championship
01/02/20: (A) | W | 3-2 | Championship
02/11/19: (H) | W | 2-0 | Championship
10/08/19: (A) | D | 1-1 | Championship
20/04/19: (A) | L | 1-2 | Championship
02/03/19: (H) | W | 1-0 | Championship
15/12/18: (A) | L | 0-0 | Championship
20/10/18: (H) | L | 0-1 | Championship

In the last twelve meetings, Dunfermline have won five, Queen of the South five and two have been drawn.

Recent Form

Queen of the South have drawn four and lost four of their last eight league matches. Indeed Queens last three points came against Dunfermline on 2nd October. In between they have won SPFL Trust matches against Partick Thistle and Morton but then on Tuesday night they were comprehensively dumped out of the Scottish Cup losing 3-0 at home to League One leaders Cove Rangers.

Dunfermline have lost four and won two of their last six matches but lost only one of their last six home matches. They have lost their last two matches, both away from home by the only goal of the games and last time at East End Park they did win their first home game under John Hughes by 3-0.

Last six matches

DUNFERMLINE
Hamilton Academical (A) L 0-1
Partick Thistle (A) L 0-1
Ayr United (H) W 3-0
Inverness Caledonian Thistle (A) W 2-1
Morton (H) L 1-3
Arbroath (A) L 2-4

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH
Cove Rangers (H) L 0-3
Partick Thistle (H)D 0-0
Morton (H) W 2-1
Cove Rangers (H) D 2-2
Inverness Caley Thistle (H) L 1-2
Arbroath (A) D 1-1
Raith Rovers (H) D 1-1

League Record

DUNFERMLINE
League Position: 9th
League Points: 13
Goal Difference: -10
League Record: P16 W2 D7 L5 GF15 GA25
Last Six Match Form: LLWWLL

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH
League Position: 10th
League Points: 13
Goal Difference: -10
League Record: P16 W3 D4 L9 GF13 GA23
Last Six Match Form: DLDWDL

Last Time Out

DUNFERMLINE (v Hamilton Academical): Owain Fôn Williams: Aaron Comrie, Mark Connolly, Vytas Gašpuitis, Josh Edwards: Kyle Macdonald (Dan Pybus 72), Matthew Todd (Nikolay Todorov 78), Graham Dorrans (c), Kai Kennedy (Kevin O’Hara 68): Ryan Dow, Lewis McCann
SUBS NOT USED: Ross Graham, Craig Wighton, Paul Allan, Deniz Mehmet (GK)

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH (v Cove Rangers) Solomon Brynn: Max Johnston, Paul McKay, Willie Gibson (c), Alex Cooper: Calvin McGrory, Ruari Paton, Niyah Joseph (Euan East 70), Lee Connelly, Josh Todd (Ally Roy 63), Ruben Soares Junior.
SUBS NOT USED: Kieran McKechnie, Josh Rae (GK).

Other Championship matches

Ayr United v Hamilton Academical (Friday)
Morton v Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Partick Thistle v Arbroath
Raith Rovers v Kilmarnock

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