Preview Buckie Thistle

Premier Sports Cup (home), Tuesday 12th July 2022, kick off 7.45pm at East End Park

Next up in the Premier Sports Cup is a home match against Highland League runners up, Buckie Thistle. The clubs have only met three times, all in cup matches, the most recent in September 2017.

Previous matches v Buckie Thistle

02/09/2017 | A | W | 3-0 | Challenge Cup
26/11/2016 | A |W | 5-3 | Scottish Cup
30/01/1980 | H | W | 2-0 | Scottish Cup

Last Time v Buckie Thistle
Irn Bru Challenge Cup, Saturday 2nd September 2017
Buckie Thistle 0 Dunfermline 3

The opening goal came in just seven minutes when a long raking ball sent by Splaine from inside his own half found Cardle on the far left and he curled in a ball that CLARK headed home at the far post. 0-1

In 33 minutes Martin looked as though he was going to round the entire defence before being cut down by Anderson. Cardle gathered the ball but the referee did not play advantage and pulled play back for a 35th minute free kick. Splaine floated a good delivery to the far side of the six yard box where Lee Ashcroft headed the ball back across goal for CLARK to head home. Clearly feeling that Cardle would not have done as well, a local shouted "that`s your fault ref!" 0-2

Four minutes later another header brought about the Fifers third goal of the cup tie. A long ball in from Aird on the right was flicked on by Andy RYAN to make it 0-3.

The tie was settled before half time and Cammy Gill replaced Sean Murdoch in between the sticks to give the 19 year old keeper his debut.

BUCKIE THISTLE: Daniel Bell: Andrew Skinner, Ross Anderson, Lewis MacKinnon, Craig Dorrat: Stuart Taylor (Callum Murray 81), Kevin Fraser (c), Jay Cheyne (Drew Copeland 75), Chris Angus, Sam Urquhart, Steven Ross (John McLeod 67)
SUBS NOT USED: John Maitland, Hamish Munro, Darren Strong (GK)
YELLOW CARD: Skinner (48), Fraser (58)

DUNFERMLINE: Sean Murdoch (c)(Cammy Gill 64): Fraser Aird, Jean Yves M`Voto, Lee Ashcroft, Lewis Martin: Scott Lochhead, Michael Paton, Aaron Splaine, Joe Cardle (Kallum Higginbotham HT): Andy Ryan (Declan McManus 80), Nicky Clark
SUBS NOT USED: Callum Morris, Nat Wedderburn, Ryan Williamson.
SCORERS: Clark (7, 35), Ryan (39)

Last Six Matches



DUNFERMLINE

East Fife (A) W 2-0
Kilmarnock (H) L 0-1

Stenhousemuir (A) W 2-0
Forfar Athletic (A) W 6-0

Cove Rangers (A) W 2-0

Queen’s Park (H) L 0-1

BUCKIE THISTLE
Ross County (H) D 1-1 (1-2 AET)
Dyce (H) W 3-0
Cutler (H) W 2-1
Aberdeen (H) L 1-2
Clachnacuddin (A) W 3-1
Wick Academy (H) D 1-1

League Record

Buckie Thistle scored a massive 127 goals in the last Highland League season and they don’t concede made either, just 21 goals in 34 league matches last season.



DUNFERMLINE

Championship League Position: 9th

Championship League Points: 35

Goal Difference: -17

Home League Record: P18 W5 D8 L5 GF22 GA24

Last Six Match Form: LWWWLW



BUCKIE THISTLE

Highland League Position: 2nd

Highland League Points: 89

Goal Difference: +106

Away League Record: P17 W14 D0 L3 GF59 GA13

Last Six Match Form: DWLWWD

Last Time Out

DUNFERMLINE (v East Fife): Deniz Mehmet: Aaron Comrie, Kyle Benedictus (c), Rhys Breen, Josh Edwards: Joe Chalmers (Paul Allan 68), Matthew Todd, Chris Hamilton, Kevin O’Hara (Andrew Tod 86), Lewis McCann, Craig Wighton (Kyle Macdonald 86).
SUBS NOT USED: Nikolay Todorov, Miller Fenton, Jake Rennie, Michael Beagley, Sam Young, Callum Archibald (GK)

BUCKIE THISTLE (v Ross County): Balint Demus, Hamish Munro (Shaun Wood 68), Ryan Fyffe, Jack Murray, Cohen Ramsay (Mark McLauchlan 69), Kevin Fraser, Sam Pugh, Max Barry, Andrew MacAskill! Samuel Urquhart (Scott Adams 79), Marcus Goodall
SUBS NOT USED: Lewis MacKinnon, Lee Herbert, Joe McCabe, Declan Milne.

Other Premier Sport Group Match

Alloa Athletic v East Fife

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