Preview Stirling Albion
Saturday, 28th Jul 2018Betfred Cup: (home) Saturday 28th July 3.00pm kick off at EastEnd Park
These sides have not met in the League Cup since season 1958-1959 and in that season Dunfermline Athletic recorded two wins. The other two league cup ties were played a decade earlier and that time it was a draw and a defeat.
This time Stirling arrive on three points having a win and two defeats from the first three Betfred Cup games and Dunfermline have won three out of three including a fine away win at Dens to Premier League, Dundee and a scintillating win hitting Brechin for seven.
The whole record shows that Dunfermline have had the upper hand in the 72 previous matches against Stirling Albion having won 34 to the Binos 20 with 18 drawn. The Binos last win at East End Park was in April 1993. Since then they have returned ten times in the league and once in the Challenge Cup without a win.
Milestones v Stirling Albion (Home)
Last League Victory | 22/11/14 | 4-0 | League One
Last League Defeat | 03/04/93 | 0-2 | Division 1
Best League Victory | 02/12/67 | 6-0 | Division 1*
Worst League Defeat | 18/10/47 | 3-5 | Division 2*
*Pre league reconstruction
Last Twelve Games
14/03/15 | Dunfermline | 1-1 | Stirling Albion | League One
10/01/15 | Stirling Albion | 2-2 | Dunfermline | League One
22/11/14 | Dunfermline | 4-0 | Stirling Albion | League One
04/10/14| Stirling Albion | 0-2 | Dunfermline | League One
19/03/11 | Dunfermline | 4-1 | Stirling Albion | First Division
15/03/11 | Stirling Albion | 1-1 | Dunfermline | First Division
30/10/10 | Dunfermline | 3-0 | Stirling Albion | First Division
28/08/10 | Stirling Albion | 1-5 | Dunfermline | First Division
26/07/08 | Dunfermline | 3-0 | Stirling Albion | Challenge Cup
25/03/08 | Stirling Albion | 2-3 | Dunfermline | First Division
29/12/07 | Dunfermline | 2-1 | Stirling Albion | First Division
27/10/07 | Stirling Albion | 3-0 | Dunfermline | First Division
In the last 12 meetings Dunfermline have won eight, lost one and drawn three.
Last Meeting at East End Park
League One: Dunfermline 1 Stirling Albion 1
Saturday 14th March 2015
For the visit of bottom of the table Stirling Albion, John Potter with Neil McCann with him in the dugout, stuck by the same starting eleven that had success over Ayr United the previous Saturday.
Having gone 70 minutes without the goal East End Park wanted, it came at the wrong end. An inswinger of a corner from the left was touched on by Lewis Coult and when the ball came down off the crossbar Gordon SMITH was there to stab the ball into the Pars net from close range 0-1.
For the restart Alex Whittle replaced Lewis Spence and it was the sub who provided the cross just three minutes later from which Andy GEGGAN headed in at the far post. 1-1
DUNFERMLINE: Ryan Scully; Ross Millen, Kyle McAusland, Lewis Martin, Stuart Urquhart; Paul George (Josh Falkingham 35), Andy Geggan (c), Lewis Spence (Alex Whittle 72), David Hopkirk, Michael Moffat, Lewis Allan (Andy Barrowman 65).
SUBS NOT USED: Shaun Byrne, Gregor Buchanan, Faissal El Bakhtaoui, Ryan Goodfellow (GK)
SCORER: Geggan (75)
STIRLING ALBION: Callum Reidford; Ross McGeachie, Adam Cummins, Chris Smith, Kevin McKinlay (c); Willie Robertson, Craig Comrie; Phil Johnston, Sandy Cunningham, Gordon Smith (Lee Hamilton 76); Lewis Coult (Scott Shepherd 80).
SUBS NOT USED: Chris Paton, Graham Weir, Jordan Herron, Scott Davidson, Greg Paterson (GK)
SCORER: G Smith (71)
Betfred Cup Form
DUNFERMLINE
Brechin City (A) W 7-1
Dundee (A) W 1-0
Peterhead (H) W 3-0
STIRLING ALBION
Peterhead (A) W 0-2
Brechin City (H) L 1-2
Dundee (H) L 0-4
Last Time Out
DUNFERMLINE( v Brechin City): Lee Robinson: Lee Ashcroft (c), Mark Durnan, Danny Devine: Ryan Williamson, Kallum Higginbotham, James Craigen (James Vincent HT), Jackson Longridge: Louis Longridge (Aidan Connolly 57), Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Andy Ryan HT), Myles Hippolyte.
SUBS NOT USED: Lewis McCann, Lewis Martin, Joe Thomson, Cammy Gill (GK)
STIRLING ALBION ( v Brechin City): Cameron Binnie: Ross McGeachie, Jordan Allan, Jason Marr, Kyle Banner, Dominic Docherty, Daniel Jardine, Mark Stewart, Peter MacDonald (Reg McLaren 88), Kevin Fell (Justin Watson 80), Neil McLaughlin
SUBS NOT USED: Dillon Young, Callum Thompson, Callum MacDonald, Mitchell McDonald, Callum Law (GK)
Referee will be Mike Roncone.
The other match in this group sees Dundee host Brechin City.
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