Preview Partick Thistle
Wednesday, 27th Feb 2013Satur
For Thistle Saturday sees the second of three successive away days to Fife. On Tuesday night Cowdenbeath were 2-1 up against the Firhill club when fog caused the match at Central Park to be abandoned. Dunfermline having lost their last four home games badly need to put a stop to this poor home form.
| Dunfermline v Thistle: The Full League Record | ||||||
| P | W | D | L | For | Agst | |
| At East End Park | 41 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 70 | 53 |
| At Firhill | 39 | 14 | 8 | 17 | 47 | 65 |
| Division One (up to 1975) | 45 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 77 | 72 |
| Premier Division (since 1975) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| First Division (since 1975) | 29 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 32 | 36 |
| TOTALS | 80 | 33 | 22 | 25 | 117 | 118 |
Dunfermline have an edge on the history in league competition against Partick Thistle with 33 wins to 25 losses in previous league meetings.
Partick Home Milestones
The Pars defeat to Thistle at East End Park in August was just the third away win for over 29 years but the Pars have failed to win in the last four visits from the Jags. The 10-1 win in 1959 is one of the club's most famous victories, as it prevented almost certain relegation.
| Milestones Partick (home) | |||
| Last League Victory |
3-1 |
SPL | |
| Last League Defeat |
0-1 |
First Div | |
| Best League Victory |
|
10-1 |
Div One* |
| Worst League Defeat |
|
1-7 |
Div One* |
| *Pre league reconstruction | |||
Last Twelve League matches
The last twelve league games have seen
| Last Twelve League Matches v Partick Thistle | |||
|
Date |
H/A |
F-A |
Scorers |
| 10/11/12 | A | 1-5 | [0-1] Lawless, [1-1] Muirhead og, [1-2] Balatomi, [1-3] O'Donnell, [1-4] Forbes, [1-5] Lawless |
| 18/08/12 | H | 0-1 | [0-1] Lawless |
| 26/03/11 | H | 0-0 | [0-0] |
| 29/01/11 | A | 0-2 | [0-1] Erskine, [0-2] Doolan |
| 14/12/10 | H | 0-0 | . |
| 25/09/10 | A | 2-0 | [1-0] Clarke, [2-0] Kirk |
| 23/03/10 | H | 1-2 | [0-1] Buchanan, [1-1] McDougall, [1-2] Donnelly |
| 23/01/10 | A | 4-1 | [1-0] Cardle, [2-0] Cardle, [3-0], Cardle, [4-0] Woods, [4-1] Buchanan |
| 14/11/09 | H | 3-1 | [1-0] McDougall, [2-0] Gibson, [2-1] Cairney, [3-1] Gibson |
| 19/09/09 | A | 0-2 | [0-1] Cairney, [0-2] Donnelly |
| 14/03/09 | H | 0-1 | [0-1] Harkins |
| 14/02/09 | A | 3-2 | [0-1] Buchanan, [1-1] Bell, [2-1] Kirk, [2-2] Doolan, [3-2] Loy (pen) |
League Stats
| Dunfermline | Partick Thistle |
| Current League Position | |
| 3 | 2 |
| League Points | |
| 39 | 47 |
| Goal Difference | |
| +10 | +26 |
| Last 6-Match League Form | |
| LLWLLL | LWWDWW |
| Home / Away League Record | |
| P12, W5, D2, L5 | P10, W2, D5, L3 |
Recent Form
Thistle are undefeated in their last five games and although they have 12 at home this season their Achilles heel would appear to be away from home where they have won just two league games and one of those was at East End Park. The Pars started the season with just two defeats in their first 13 league games but have now lost nine of their last 13 matches.
| Recent League Form | ||||||
| Dunfermline | Partick Thistle | |||||
| Morton (H) | L | 1-4 | Cowdenbeath (A) | A | 1-2 | |
| Falkirk (A) | L | 0-1 | Airdrie United (H) | W | 4-0 | |
| Cowdenbeath (A) | L | 2-4 | Hamilton Accies (H) | W | 1-0 | |
| Hamilton Accies (A) | W | 2-1 | Morton (A) | D | 2-2 | |
| Hamilton Accies (H) | L | 0-2 | Cowdenbeath (H)) | W |
2-1 | |
| Livingston (H) | W | 0-1 | Falkirk (H) | W | 4-1 | |
Teams last time out
DUNFERMLINE (v Morton): Paul Gallacher; Andy Geggan, Andy Dowie, Callum Morris, Jordan McMillan (c); Chris Kane (Stephen Husband, 67), Ryan Thomson, Joe Cardle; Craig Dargo (Fayssal El Bakhtaoui 76), Andy Barrowman, Ryan Wallace.
SUBS NOT USED: Ross Millen, John Potter, Michael Hrivnak (GK)
PARTICK THISTLE (v Cowdenbeath): Scott Fox; Stephen O'Donnell, Aaron Sinclair, Hugh Murray, Aaron Muirhead, Conrad Balatoni, Sean Welsh, Stuart Bannigan, Steven Craig, Steven Lawless, Chris Erskine.
SUBS: Glen Daniels, Ross Forbes, Kris Doolan, Stephen Craigen, Alan Archibald.
Referee will be Bobby Madden
Come on ye Pars!
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