Preview Queen of the South

Ladbrokes Championship: Saturday 23rd October 2018, 3.00pm kick off at East End Park

As it was when these sides met in March, it will be fifth placed Pars versus sixth placed Queens. No games are easy in this league and this will be yet another tough test.

Milestones Queen of the South (Home)
Last League Victory: 31/03/18: 3-1: Championship
Last League Defeat: 09/12/17: 2-5: Championship
Best League Victory:
30/12/72: 6-1: Div One (old)
16/04/11: 6-1 First Division
Worst League Defeat: 09/12/17: 2-5: Championship

Dunfermline have won five of the last twelve meetings, QOS have won three and four have been drawn.

Last Twelve League Matches v Queen of the South
Date: H/A F-A WDL League
31/03/18: (H) 3-1 W Championship
24/02/18: (A) 0-0 D Championship
09/12/17: (H) 2-5 L Championship
14/10/17: (A) 0-0 D Championship
06/05/17: (A) 1-0 W Championship
07/03/17: (H) 1-1 D Championship
17/12/16 (A) 2-2 D Championship
27/08/16: (H) 0-1 L Championship
16/04/11: (H) 6-1 W First Division
26/02/11: (A) 3-1 W First Division
11/12/10: (H) 1-0 W First Division
02/10/10: (A) 0-2 L First Division

Last Meeting at East End Park
Saturday 31st March 2018, Ladbrokes Championship
Dunfermline 3 Queen of the South 1

The first goal of the game came in 33rd minute. Lewis Martin won possession on the edge of his own box and took the ball up the left and deep into the Queens half. He laid the ball off to Fraser Aird on the wing who cut in and chipped the ball into the centre of the box where Nicky CLARK rose to head home at the far post. 1-0

Clark was to double the lead just five minutes later. The move had been worked across the pitch from Higginbotham to Martin and then Beadling. The scorer flick the ball towards McManus on the edge of the box and when the ball came back off him CLARK accepted the knock down to drill the ball into the bottom left. 2-0

Jordan MARSHALL got a goal back for the visitors with a drive that looked like a speculative shot from the left corner of the box into the far side of the Fifers net. 2-1

Some people thought in was all over and had left the ground but in the third minute of added time Ryan Williamson sent the ball in from the right corner flag and none other than Nicky CLARK rose between Jacobs and Brownlie to head the ball past Leighfield to complete yet another hat trick, the seventh of his professional career. 3-1

DUNFERMLINE: Lee Robinson: Ryan Williamson, Callum Morris (c), Lee Ashcroft, Lewis Martin: Kallum Higginbotham (Dan Armstrong 68), Tom Beadling, James Craigen, Fraser Aird (Nat Wedderburn 83): Declan McManus, Nicky Clark.
SUBS NOT USED: Dean Shiels, Andy Ryan, Jean-Yves M`Voto, Jason Talbot, Cammy Gill (GK)
SCORERS: Clark (33, 38, 90+3)

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH: Jack Leighfield: Scott Mercer (Shaun Rooney 86), Callum Fordyce, Darren Brownlie, Jordan Marshall: Dom Thomas, Joe Thomson, John Rankin (c) (Derek Lyle 66), Kyle Jacobs, Josh Todd: Lyndon Dykes (Nikolay Todorov 80).
SUBS NOT USED: Dan Carmichael, Myles Beerman, Connor Murray, Curtis Lyle (GK).

Form Last Six Matches

DUNFERMLINE
Alloa Athletic (H) D 2-2
Falkirk (A) W 2-0
Partick Thistle (H) W 1-0
Morton (A) D 1-1
Alloa Athletic (H) D 0-0
Boreham Wood (A) D 0-0

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH
East Fife (A) L 0-2
Alloa Athletic (H) D 3-3
Inverness Caley (A) D 0-0
Partick Thistle (A) L 2-3
Ross County (H) D 0-0
Crusaders (H) W 4-3

League Form

DUNFERMLINE
League Position: 5th
League Points: 11
League Record: P8 W3 D2 L3 GF7 GA13
Goal Difference: -4
Last Six League Match Form: LLDDWW

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH
League Position: 6th
League Points: 10
League Record: P8 W2 D4 L2 GF16 GA10
Goal Difference:+6
Last Six League Match Form: WWDLDD

Last time out

DUNFERMLINE (v Alloa Athletic): Lee Robinson: James Craigen, Lee Ashcroft (c), Danny Devine, Jackson Longridge: Louis Longridge, James Vincent, Malaury Martin (Tom Beadling 66), Aidan Connolly: Andy Ryan (Myles Hippolyte 68), Faissal El Bakhtaoui.
SUBS NOT USED: Joe Thomson, Stuart Morrison, Lewis McCann, Robbie Muirhead, Cammy Gill (GK)

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH (v East Fife): Alan Martin: Scott Mercer (Callum Fordyce 70), Jordan Marshall, Michael Doyle, Callum Semple, Andy Stirling, Kyle Jacobs, Josh Todd, Adam Friizzell (Owen Bell 61), Stephen Dobbie, Lyndon Dykes.
SUBS NOT USED: David Norman, Connor Murray, Jack Leighfield (GK).

Referee will be Steven Reid, his first time in charge of a match involving Dunfermline Athletic.

Other Ladbrokes Championship Fixtures
Alloa Athletic v Partick Thistle at Indodrill Stadium
Dundee United v Inverness Caledonian Thistle at Tannadice Park
Morton v Falkirk at Cappielow Park
Ross County v Ayr United at Global Energy Stadium

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