Preview Brechin City
Saturday, 9th Aug 2014Brechin City are the opposition at East End Park for Dunfermline's first league match of the 2014-2015 season.
When the fixtures list was released the reality of losing that final play off game after such a successful season, sinks in. League One has lost Rangers, East Fife and Arbroath. There are new opponents in Peterhead and Stirling Albion and six clubs that faced the Pars last season. City are one of those six and last season Dunfermline managed to win both their home matches against them although it wasn't as straightforward as that.. The Glebe Park club were unbeaten at home against the Pars, winning one and drawing the other.
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Last season v Brechin City |
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14/09/13 |
Brechin City |
Dunfermline |
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23/11/13 |
Dunfermline |
Brechin City |
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25/01/14 |
Brechin City |
Dunfermline |
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29/03/14 |
Dunfermline |
Brechin City |
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There have been 41 league meetings between these teams; the Fifers have won 29, Brechin City 5 and 7 matches have been drawn. The Pars have only lost three home games against their Angus opponents but there have been some high scoring games.
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Milestones v Brechin City (home) |
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Last Victory |
29/03/14 |
2-1 |
League One |
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Last Defeat |
18/04/87 |
0-2 |
Div One |
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Best Victory |
14/12/29 |
10-1 |
Div Two |
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Worst Defeat |
18/04/87 |
0-2 |
Div One |
The best Pars result was an 10-1 win in 1929 but since that first ever fixture between the clubs, Dunfermline have home scorelines such as 8-0 twice, 6-2, 8-0 and 6-1. In Division One on 30th April 1994, the Fifers won 2-1 courtesy of goals from Stewart Petrie and Andy Tod and when Brechin returned to Dunfermline after a gap of almost twenty years in 2013-14, they lost 3-1 with Ryan Wallace scoring a double and then in March 2-1 when a Ross Millen penalty in the last minute ensured the three points stayed in Fife.
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Brechin City | ||||
| Raith Rovers (H) | W | 1-0 | Dumbarton (H) | L | 0-1 | |
| Annan Athletic (H) | W | 2-1 | Cowdenbeath (A) | W | 3-1 | |
| Berwick Rangers (A) | W | 2-1 | Dundee (H) | D | 0-0 | |
| Hibernian (H) | D | 0-0 | Montrose (H) | W | 1-0 | |
Brechin City started the season well knocking Cowdenbeath out of the Petrofac Training Cup with two players who were at East End Park last season - Robert Thomson and Ryan Ferguson scoring in the 3-1 win after extra time. They then lost out to Dumbarton in the League Cup last Saturday.
League Stats 2013-2014 |
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| Dunfermline | Brechin City |
| League Position | |
| 2 | 8 |
| League form: Last Six Games | |
| WDLWDL | LWDWWL |
| League Points | |
| 63 | 42 |
| Goal Difference | |
| +14 | -14 |
| League Record | |
| P36, W19, D6, L11 | P36, W12, D7, L18 |
| Leading League goalscorers | |
| R Wallace (10) | A
Jackson (12) A Trouten (12) |
Last Time Out
DUNFERMLINE (v Raith Rovers): Ryan Scully; Ross Millen, Lewis Martin, Gregor Buchanan, Ross Drummond; Shaun Byrne (Ryan Thomson 87), Andy Geggan (c), Lewis Spence, Josh Falkingham; Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Chigozie Ugwu 88), Michael Moffat
BRECHIN CITY (v Dumbarton): Graeme Smith; J McCormack, Gerry McLauchlan, Paul McLean, C Hamilton, Calum Topping (Bobby Barr 62), Craig Molloy (Greg Cameron 75), Alan Trouten, Gary Fusco, A Jackson, Robert Thomson (Ryan Ferguson 62)
SUBS NOT USED: Steven Jackson, Ben Tough (GK)
Referee will be Euan Anderson
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