Preview Partick Thistle

cinch Championship (home) v Partick Thistle, Tuesday 22nd March 2022, kick off 7.05pm.

On Tuesday night under the lights and in front of the BBC Scotland cameras fourth placed, Partick Thistle will be the visitors to East End Park. Ian McCall’s side have lost their last two matches, 2-1 away to Morton and then 4-0 to Hamilton on Saturday. They are being pressed for a play off place by Raith Rovers and Inverness Caley Thistle are now one point above them.

Dunfermline sit tenth on 26 points, level with Queen of the South but below them with a goal difference three worse off. Partick Thistle and Dunfermline have to play twice yet this season and these matches could have a big say in their successes or otherwise.

Milestones Partick Thistle (home)

Last League Victory | 30/11/19 | 5-1 | Championship
Last League Defeat | 07/08/21 | 0-3 | Championship
Best League Victory | 18/04/59 | 10-1 | Div One*
Worst League Defeat | 07/01/28 | 1-7 | Div One*
Last Goalless Draw | 14/10/10 | 0-0 | First Div
*Pre league reconstruction

In the previous 91 league meetings Dunfermline have won 37, Partick 28 and 26 have been drawn.

Dunfermline v Partick Thistle: The Full League Record

P | W | D | L | For | Agst
46 | 22 | 14 | 10 | 79 | 58 | At East End Park
45 | 15 | 12 | 18 | 56 | 73 | At Firhill
91 | 37 | 26 | 27 | 135 | 134 | TOTALS

Last time at East End Park

Partick Thistle were the visitors for the Pars first home match of the 2021-2022 league season.

Thistle forced Ross Graham into conceding a seventh minute corner and when former Par Kyle Turner delivered from the right and his captain Ross DOCHERTY rose at the near post to glance home his header. 0-1

A quickly taken free kick by Stuart Bannigan to Tiffoney wide left, earned the 22nd minute corner that would produce Thistle’s second goal. Turner sent the ball in and HOLT rose at the far post to head the ball into the Pars net. 0-2

The winning margin was increased in 78 minutes when Partick sub Cammy Smith crossed from the left and Graham turned the ball into his own net. 0-3

DUNFERMLINE: Deniz Mehmet: Aaron Comrie (Dan Pybus 82), Paul Watson, Ross Graham: Kyle Macdonald, Graham Dorrans, Dom Thomas (c) (Craig Wighton HT), Josh Edwards: Reece Cole (Ryan Dow 82): Kevin O’Hara, Nikolay Todorov.
SUBS NOT USED: Rhys Breen, Vytas Gašpuitis, Paul Allan, Owain Fôn Williams: (GK)

PARTICK THISTLE: Harry Stone: Ciaran McKenna, Lewis Mayo, Kevin Holt, Richard Foster: Kyle Turner, Ross Docherty (c), Stuart Bannigan, Scott Tiffoney (Cammy Smith 69): Brian Graham (Ross MacIver, 81), Zak Rudden (Connor Murray 73).
SUBS NOT USED: Shea Gordon, Steven Bell, Mouhamed Niang, Jamie Sneddon (GK).

Last Twelve Matches v Partick Thistle

This will be the fifth match between these sides this season. Two have been Thistle wins, one has been drawn and the first match in the Premier Sports Cup in July was an impressive win for the Pars.

The last dozen games between the teams have seen Dunfermline win five, drawn four and lost three. Thistle’s win at East End Park in August was their first in seven meetings between the clubs.

Date | H/A | F-A | Scorers
26/11/21: A 0-1 [0-1] Docherty
23/10/21: A 0-0
07/08/21: H 0-3 [0-1] Docherty, [0-2] Holt, [0-3] Graham (og 78).
10/07/21: A 4-2 [0-1] Graham, [1-1] Todorov, [2-1] Comrie, [3-1] Macdonald, [4-1] Todorov, [4-2] Rudden.
10/03/20: A 1-1 [1-0] Murray [1-1] Graham.
30/11/19: H 5-1 [1-0] Nisbet [2-0] Martin [3-0] Nisbet [4-0] Nisbet [5-0] Nisbet [5-1] Cole.

21/09/19: A 3-0 [1-0] Nisbet, [2-0] Dow, [3-0] Turner

06/04/19: A 2-2 [1-0] Beadling: [2-0] Anderson: [1-2] Blair (og): [2-2] McDonald.

26/02/19: H 3-0 [1-0] Anderson, [2-0] Devine, [3-0] Anderson
08/12/18: A 0-2 [0-1] Spittal, [0-2] Storey.
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.

Recent Form

Dunfermline have now gone six matches without a win but they have drawn four of the last six and are unbeaten at home in 2022.

Partick Thistle have scored more league goals away from home than any other team in the league but they have not won away from home since 13th November, five of their last six away matches ending in draws. Their early season form has dipped with just two wins in their last nine matches.

Last six matches

DUNFERMLINE

Morton (H) D 1-1
Hamilton Academical (A) D 2-2

Arbroath (A) L 0-1

Kilmarnock (H) D 0-0

Kilmarnock (A) L 1-2

Ayr United (A) D 1-1


PARTICK THISTLE

Hamilton Academical (H) L 0-4
Morton (A) L 1-2
Queen of the South (H) W 1-0
Inverness Caley Thistle (H) W 1-0
Arbroath (A) D 1-1
Raith Rovers (A) D 0-0

League Record

DUNFERMLINE
League Position: 10th
League Points: 26
Goal Difference: -17
Home League Record: P14 W2 D8 L4 GF13 GA20
Last Six Match Form: DLDLDD

PARTICK THISTLE
League Position: 4th
League Points: 45
Goal Difference: +11
Away League Record: P14 W4 D6 L4 GF25 GA18
Last Six Match Form: DDWWLL

Last Time Out

DUNFERMLINE (v Morton): Jakub Stolarczyk: Matthew Todd (Lewis McCann 82), Coll Donaldson, Efe Ambrose, Josh Edwards: Liam Polworth, Dan Pybus, Joe Chalmers, Dom Thomas: Steven Lawless (c), Kevin O’Hara
SUBS NOT USED: Aaron Comrie, Nikolay Todorov, Ryan Dow, Rhys Breen, Paul Allan, Leon Jones, Reece Cole, Deniz Mehmet (GK)

PARTICK THISTLE (v Hamilton Academical): Jamie Sneddon: Ciaran McKenna, Olatunji Akinola, Lewis Mayo, Kevin Holt: Robbie Crawford (Steven Bell 45), Ross Docherty (c), Stuart Bannigan, Kyle Turner, Cammy Smith (Ben Stanway 72), Juan Alegría (Stephen Hendrie 56).
SUBS NOT USED: Andy Firth (GK).

Referee will be Steven McLean.

Remaining Pars Fixtures

26-03-22 away v Inverness Caley Thistle
04-04-22 home v Raith Rovers
09-04-22 away v Kilmarnock
16-04-22 home v Ayr United
23-04-22 away v Partick Thistle
29-04-22 home v Queen of the South

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