Preview Stranraer
Saturday, 11th Apr 2015Dunfermline are seven points off the final play off place currently occupied by Brechin City.
Saturday's opponents Stranraer knocked Dunfermline out of this season's William Hill Scottish Cup and defeated the Pars on their last two visits to East End Park.
Dunfermline's best result against Stranraer was in Division Two in April 1958 when a Charlie Dickson hat trick helped the Pars to a 9-1 scoreline. Up until December last year the Pars had won every home league game except the drawn match in November 1983 which was just five games into Jim Leishman's managerial career.
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Milestones v Stranraer (home) |
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Last Victory |
10/05/14 |
3-0 |
League One |
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Best Victory |
12/04/58 |
9-1 |
Div Two |
Last Defeat |
20/12/14 |
0-1 |
League One |
Worst Defeat |
09/12/14 |
1-3 |
Scottish Cup |
With four league matches to play Stranraer sit top of League One, one point ahead of second placed Forfar Athletic and with a four goal goal difference advantage. After Saturday's visit to East End a Park, their title challenge will take them to Stenhousemuir and Morton before they face Brechin City at Stair Park in their final fixture of the campaign.
| Dunfermline | Stranraer |
| Current League Position | |
| 6 | 1 |
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Recent Results |
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| DWDWLD | LLWWWW |
| League Points | |
| 45 | 61 |
| Goal Difference | |
| +3 | +21 |
| Home / Away Record | |
| P16, W7, D5, L4 | P16, W7, D5, L4 |
Dunfermline are seven points off the final play off place currently occupied by Brechin City. There are twelve points yet to play for and hopefully significant that Dunfermline have yet to play Brechin. Other challengers for that final play off places still include Airdrieonians and Peterhead.
Stranraer went 18 matches undefeated from the beginning of September until after Christmas. They have won all of their last four games but their away form has shown some weakness with two single goal wins and three defeats in their last five matches on the road.
League Form
| Form last six home / away | ||||||
| Dunfermline (home) | Stranraer (away) | |||||
| Morton | L | 0-4 | Peterhead | W | 2-1 | |
| Stirling Albion | D | 1-1 | Stirling Albion | W | 1-0 | |
| Ayr United | W | 2-1 | Forfar Athletic | L | 0-1 | |
| Brechin City | L | 0-1 | Stenhousemuir | L | 0-1 | |
| Stenhousemuir | W | 3-2 | Morton | L |
0-2 |
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| Airdrieonians | D | 2-2 | Airdrieonians | D |
1-1 |
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The Pars 2-1 win in Stranraer in August is a distant memory since the sides have met four times since and the Galloway club have drawn one and won three of those league and cup games. The last meeting in February was a humiliating 5-1 defeat and there will be a great desire to right that when Stevie Aitken's men come to town.
| Matches v Stranraer 2013-2015 | ||||
| Date | H/A | WDL | F-A | Scorers |
| 28/02/15 | A | L | 1-5 | [0-1] Gallagher; [1-1] Geggan; [1-2] Aitken; [1-3] Gibson; [1-4] Longworth; [1-5] McShane. |
| 20/12/14 | H | L | 0-1 | [0-1] McKeown |
| 09/12/14 | H | L | 1-3 | [0-1] Winter, [0-2] S Stirling, [1-2] Millen pen. [1-3] Longworth |
| 29/11/14 | A | D | 2-2 | [1-0] Geggan, [2-0] Buchanan, [2-1] Gibson, [2-2] Geggan o.g. |
| 30/08/14 | A | W | 2-1 | [1-0] Ugwu, [1-1] [2-1] Moffat |
| 10/05/14 | H | W | 3-0 | [1-0] Geggan; [2-0] Geggan; [3-0] El Bakhtaoui |
| 07/05/14 | A | L | 1-2 | [0-1] Grehan; [1-1] El Bakhtaoui; [1-2] Bell. |
| 01/03/14 | A | L | 1-3 | [0-1] Grehan pen, [0-2] McKenna, [0-3] McKenna, [1-3] Grainger pen. |
| 11/01/14 | H | W | 3-2 | [0-1] Bell, [1-1] Thomson, [1-2] McKeown, [2-2] Byrne, [3-2] Shankland |
| 26/10/13 | A | W | 2-1 | [0-1] Longworth, [1-1] Husband, [2-1] Falkingham |
| 31/08/13 | H | W | 3-1 | [0-1] Grehan, [1-1] Geggan, [2-1] Johnston, [3-1] Smith. |
Last Time Out
DUNFERMLINE (v Peterhead): Ryan Scully; Ross Millen, Gregor Buchanan, Lewis Martin, Alex Whittle; Andy Geggan, Josh Falkingham (c), Kyle McAusland (Ryan Thomson 71), David Hopkirk; Allan Smith (Faissal El Bakhtaoui 81), Michael Moffat (Andy Barrowman 81)
SUBS NOT USED: Stuart Urquhart, Lewis Spence, Shaun Byrne, Jamie Wilson (GK)
STRANRAER (v Ayr United): David Mitchell; Craig Pettigrew, Scott Rumsby, Frank McKeown, Jackson Longridge; Sean Winter (Scott Robertson 92 ), Grant Gallagher, Chris Aitken, Willie Gibson,
Craig Malcolm (Stephen Stirling 89), Jamie Longworth (Daniel Stoney 80)
SUBS NOT USED: Barry Russell, Jon McShane, Daniel Tobin (GK).
Referee will be Mat Northcroft
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