Preview Airdrieonians
Saturday, 23rd Aug 2014Dunfermline will face bottom of the table Airdrieonians on Saturday and that is not the first time that line has been put together.
Over the last three seasons that has been the case several times but that has never created an advantage that the Pars have been able to take. In the last four matches these sides have played at East End Park the away team have won three.
In all their guises the Lanarkshire club have always been fairly close to Dunfermline, there have been 105 league games with Airdrie having 37 wins to the Pars 38.
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Pars v Airdrie:
The Full League Record |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
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At
|
54 |
23 |
17 |
14 |
89 |
83 |
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At Airdrie |
51 |
15 |
13 |
24 |
80 |
109 |
| League One | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
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Division
One (up to 1975) |
42 |
19 |
6 |
17 |
83 |
90 |
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Division
Two (up to 1975) |
12 |
1 |
3 |
8 |
24 |
42 |
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Premier
League (since 1975) |
4 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
8 |
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First
Division (since 1975) |
43 |
16 |
20 |
7 |
53 |
48 |
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TOTALS |
105 |
38 |
30 |
37 |
169 |
192 |
Both Airdrieonians and Dunfermline are seeking their first league win of the
season.
| Dunfermline | Airdrieonians |
| Current League Position | |
| 8 | 10 |
| League Points | |
| 1 | 0 |
| Goal Difference | |
| -2 | -3 |
| League form | |
| DL | LL |
| League Record | |
| P2, W0, D1, L1 | P2, W0, D0, L2 |
At least Dunfermline have cup wins over Raith Rovers and Annan Athletic to their credit this season but Airdrieonians went out of the Petrofac Training Cup and Scottish League Cup to Albion Rovers and Stenhousemuir respectively.
| Recent results | ||||||
| Dunfermline |
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Airdrieonians | ||||
| Falkirk (H) | L | 1-2 | Peterhead (H) |
L |
0-2 |
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| Forfar Athletic (A) | L | 0-2 | Stenhousemuir (A) | L | 0-1 | |
| Brechin City (H) | D | 0-0 | Stenhousemuir (H) | L | 1-3 | |
| Raith Rovers (H) | W | 1-0 | Albion Rovers (H) | D | 2-2 | |
| Anan Athletic (H) | W | 5-1 | ||||
Last Time Out
DUNFERMLINE (v Falkirk): Ryan Scully; Ross Millen, Lewis Martin, Jonathan Page (Ryan Williamson 65), Ross Drummond; Andy Geggan (c), Lewis Spence, Josh Falkingham, Ross Forbes (Chigozie Ugwu 65); Faissal El Bakhtaoui, Michael Moffat
SUBS NOT USED: Ryan Thomson, Finn Graham, Shaun Byrne, Allan Smith, Ryan Goodfellow (GK)
AIRDRIEONIANS (v Ayr United): Andrew McNeil; Chris O'Neil (Jack Kirwan 82), David Proctor, Mark Fitzpatrick, Paddy Boyle, Scott Gray (John Boyle 77), Liam Watt, Scott Stewart, Jamie Bain, Jim Lister, Keigan Parker
SUBS NOT USED: Lucas Birinstinfil, Jack Haggerty, Kyle Richford, Nathan Blockley, Robert Wilson.
Referee will be Stephen Finnie whose last Dunfermline game was the first leg
of the Championship play off back in May at Central Park.
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