Preview v Rangers

East End Park welcomes the League One champions

Rangers come to East End Park on Saturday as runaway winners of the League One title. In securing the title they are unbeaten and have scored 105 goals in the 35 games so far. This comes as no surprise and Jim Jefferies` goal this season was always to be runners up to Rangers. That has been achieved and now the focus will turn to the play off matches where the opponents are likely to be either Stranraer or Ayr United.

Since the first leg of the semi final of the play offs is on Wednesday night, Jim Jefferies has already advised Rangers manager Ally McCoist that a fair number of his key players will be rested as a precaution. Others however like Ryan Wallace are likely to feature to get back to match sharpness.

In the 104 league games between the two, Rangers have won 80 to the Pars nine.

The last Pars league success over Rangers at East End Park was on 14th December 2003 when a goal from Stevie Crawford and a Paolo Vanoli own goal gave the Pars a 2-0 win. In the old First Division the last Dunfermline win over Rangers was on 14th March 1970 - Pars goalscorers were Billy McLaren and George McLean.

The last dozen league meetings between the two teams have seen ten Dunfermline defeats and two drawn, the most recent nine games back. The Pars have also registered wins over Rangers at East End Park but in the Scottish Cup - a 2-0 win in 1988 and a 3-2 win in 2007. That last win came through goals from Jim Hamilton, Stephen Simmons and Phil McGuire who had the Pars 3-0 up before a Kris Boyd double gave the visitors hope of a replay.

Rangers form this season has been impressive and away from home they have only conceded five league goals - better than their home record. .

Dunfermline have won only one of their last four home games.

Last Time Out

DUNFERMLINE (v Arbroath): Ryan Scully; Ross Millen, Callum Morris, Jonathan Page, Danny Grainger; Andy Geggan (c), Stephen Husband (Shaun Byrne 68), Josh Falkingham, Ross Forbes (Lewis Spence 68); Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Ryan Wallace 78), Ryan Thomson.
SUBS NOT USED: Ryan Goodfellow (GK), Ryan Williamson, Allan Smith, Lewis Martin.

RANGERS (v Stranraer): Cammy Bell, Ricky Foster, Steven Smith, Lee McCulloch, Bilel Mohsni (Emilson Cribari 77), Fraser Aird, Dean Shiels, Ian Black (Nicky Clark 70), Nicky Law, Arnold Peralta, Jon Daly (Kyle Hutton 70)
SUBS NOT USED: Callum Gallagher, Robbie Crawford, Sebastien Faure, Steve Simonsen (GK).

Referee will be Don Robertson and Dunfermline`s Ross Forbes serves a one match suspension.

Come on ye Pars!