Preview Brechin City
Wednesday, 26th Mar 2014Both sides still have plenty to play for with the Pars seeking to secure a play off place and Brechin trying to avoid one at the other end.
This Saturday it is just the second home league match against Brechin City since 30th April 1994. Both sides still have plenty to play for with the Pars seeking to secure a play off place and Brechin trying to avoid one at the other end.
There have been 40 league meetings between these teams; the Fifers have won 28, Brechin City 5 and 7 matches including the last have been drawn. The Pars have only lost three home games against their Angus opponents but there have been some high scoring games.
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Milestones v Brechin City (home) | |||
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Last Victory |
23/11/13 |
League One | |
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Last Defeat |
18/04/87 |
0-2 |
Div One |
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Best Victory |
14/12/29 |
10-1 |
Div Two |
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Worst Defeat |
18/04/87 |
0-2 |
Div One |
The best Pars result was an 10-1 win in 1929 but since that first ever fixture between the clubs, Dunfermline have home scorelines such as 8-0 twice, 6-2, 8-0 and 6-1. In Division One on 30th April 1994, the Fifers won 2-1 courtesy of goals from Stewart Petrie and Andy Tod and when Brechin last came to Dunfermline they lost 3-1 with Ryan Wallace scoring a double.
| Form last six matches home / away | ||||||
| Dunfermline (home) | Brechin City (away) | |||||
| East Fife |
L |
Stenhousemuir | L | 2-4 | ||
| Stenhousemuir |
D |
0-0 | Forfar Athletic | D | 1-1 | |
| Arbroath | W | 3-0 | Airdrieonians | L |
1-2 | |
| Ayr United | W | 3-0 | Rangers | L |
1-2 | |
| Airdrieonians | L | 0-1 | Ayr United | W | 3-1 | |
| Stranraer |
W |
3-2 | Arbroath | W | 1-0 | |
Brechin City have now gone six games without a win but since they are only four points above East Fife in the play off slot they will be keen to pick up points. Their last away win was at Ayr on 18th January. Dunfermline have not won in their last four games and with only one point from them they too will be keen to start picking up points again.
| Dunfermline | Brechin City |
| Current League Position | |
| 2 | 7 |
| League form: Last Six Games | |
| WWLLDL | LLLDLL |
| League Points | |
| 54 | 23 |
| Goal Difference | |
| +14 | -14 |
| League Record home / away | |
| P15, W8, D2, L5 | P15, W3, D2, L10 |
| Leading League goalscorers | |
| R Wallace (10) | A Jackson (11) |
By all accounts Brechin City were desperately unlucky not to take a share of the spoils after losing 2-1 against Rangers at Glebe Park on Sunday. Ray McKinnon`s injury-hit side gave as good as they got over the course of the 90 minutes and can consider themselves really unfortunate not to have taken anything from the game.
Last Time Out
DUNFERMLINE (v East Fife): Ryan Scully; Ryan Williamson, Callum Morris, Jonathan Page, Alex Whittle, Andy Geggan (c), Shaun Byrne, Stephen Husband, Ross Forbes (Lewis Spence 72); Ryan Wallace (Allan Smith 52), Lawrence Shankland (Ryan Thomson 83).
SUBS NOT USED: Ryan Goodfellow (GK), Lewis Martin, Ross Millen, Faissal El Bakhtaoui.
BRECHIN CITY (v Rangers): Graeme Smith; Paul McLean (Greg Cameron 19), Johnny Brown (Ryan Ferguson 41), Graham Hay, Gerry McLauchlan, Steven Jackson, Alan Trouten, Darren Petrie, Robert Thomson, Craig Molloy, Bobby Barr (Derek Carcary 79)
SUBS NOT USED: Allan Walker, Craig Nelson (GK)
Referee will be Nick Walsh.
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