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Wednesday, 24th Apr 2013

Dunfermline search for the vital six points from the last two games that would assure they stay in the First Division without the need of play offs

Dunfermline v Partick Thistle

The new First Division champions Partick Thistle are the opponents on Saturday as Dunfermline search for the vital six points from the last two games that would assure they stay in the First Division without the need of play offs. The opposition will be formidable and the fans of the north Glasgow side will be in a mood to celebrate their club's promotion to the SPL. Can the Pars spoil the party?

Dunfermline v Thistle: The Full League Record
  P W D L For Agst
At East End Park 42 19 14 9 70 57
At Firhill 39 14 8 17 47 66
Division One (up to 1975) 45 18 14 13 77 72
Premier Division (since 1975) 6 3 1 2 8 10
First Division (since 1975) 30 12 7 11 32 40
TOTALS 81 33 22 26 117 122

Dunfermlin?e Athletic v Partick Thistle Irn Bru First Division East End Park 02 March 2013 Steven Craig makes it 4-0 (c) Craig Brown

Matches between the clubs are always hotly contested but the Fifers have the upper hand with 33 wins in the 81 league games.   Dunfermline's last league win in an away fixture there was a 2-0 win in September 2010, courtesy of goals from Pat Clarke and Andy Kirk. That came on the back of a fine 4-1 win there in January that year when a memorable hat-trick from second half sub Joe Cardle made the day.

In November Jim Jefferies men took a thrashing at Firhill as Thistle overwhelmed them 5-1.They lost again by a four goal margin in March when the sides met at East End Park and in between there was some solace as Dunfermline knocked Thistle out of the cup 1-0 on their own ground with Andy Barrowman scoring the only goal of the tie.

Andy Barrowman scores winner

Milestones Partick (away)
Last League Victory

25/09/10

2-0

First Div

Last League Defeat

 10/11/12

1-5

First Div

Best League Victory

20/04/66

6-2

Div One*

Worst League Defeat

10/11/34

1-7

Div One*

*Pre league reconstruction

Aaron Muirhead own goal

Last Twelve League matches

The last dozen league games between the teams have seen Dunfermline win three, draw two and lose seven.

Last Twelve League Matches v Partick Thistle

Date

H/A

F-A

Scorers

02/03/13 H 0-4 [0-1] Craig, [0-2] Forbes, [0-3] Craig, [0-4] Craig.
10/11/12 A 1-5 [0-1] Lawless, [1-1] Muirhead og, [1-2] Balatoni, [1-3] O'Donnell, [1-4] Forbes, [1-5] Lawless.
18/08/12 H 0-1 [0-1] Lawless
26/03/11 H 0-0
29/01/11 A 0-2 [0-1]  [0-2]
14/12/10 H 0-0
25/09/10 A 2-0 [1-0] Clarke, [2-0} Kirk.
23/03/10 H 1-2 [0-1] Buchanan, [1-1] McDougall, [1-2] Donnelly
23/01/10 A 4-1 [1-0] Cardle, 2-0] Cardle, [3-0] Cardle, 4-0] Woods, [4-1] Buchanan
14/11/09 H 3-1 [1-0] McDougall, [2-0] Gibson, [2-1] Cairney, [3-1] Gibson
19/09/09 A 0-2 [0-1] Cairney, [0-2] Donnelly
14/03/09 H 0-1 [0-1] Harkins

Paul Gallacher

When Dunfermline last travelled to Firhill to meet Thistle in the league they sat equal on points with Partick Thistle and above them by virtue of a better goal difference. That was back in November and the Pars recovered from that with good wins over Raith Rovers and Dumbarton. Since then however Dunfermline have only taken 13 points out of a possible 57 before they remembered how to win at Cappielow two weeks ago.

Partick Thistle Dunfermline
Current League Position
1 8
League Form last six results
WDWWDW LLDLWW
League Points
76 33
Goal Difference
+48 +4
Home/Away Record
P17, W15, D1, L1 P17, W8, D4, L5

League Form

   League Form this season 
  Partick Thistle  

 

 

 

  Dunfermline
  Falkirk (A) W 2-0   Cowdenbeath (H)  W

1-0

  Raith Rovers (H) D 0-0   Morton (A) W 1-0
  Airdrie United (A) W 2-1   Hamilton (H)  L

 2-3

  Morton (H) W 1-0   Livingston (A) D 2-2
  Raith Rovers (A) D 0-0   Falkirk (H)   L  0-2
  Cowdenbeath (A) W 2-1   Dumbarton (H) L 3-4

Thistle's home form has been their strength this season.  They have lost just one game at Firhill - against Morton on Boxing Day - and they are unbeaten in their last 17 matches.. 

Dunfermline are unbeaten in their last four away games and have now won their last two matches, their first back to back wins since the beginning of January.

Last Time Out

DUNFERMLINE (v Cowdenbeath): Michal Hrivnak, Ross Millen, Kerr Young, Callum Morris, Alex Whittle; Chris Kane, Shaun Byrne (John Potter 77), Stephen Husband, Josh Falkingham (c), Allan Smith, Ryan Thomson.
SUBS NOT USED: Fayssal El Bakhtaoui, Blair Henderson, Grant Munro, Ryan Goodfellow (GK).

PARTICK THISTLE: (v Falkirk)
:  Scott Fox, Stephen O'Donnell, Andy Dowie, Aaron Sinclair, James Craigen, Conrad Balatoni, Chris Erskine (Steven Craig, 81), Stuart Bannigan, Ross Forbes (Christie Elliott, 73), Kris Doolan (Mark McGuigan, 83), Steve Lawless
SUBS NOT USED Jordan McMillan, Glen Daniels (GK)

Jordan McMillan is injured v Partick Thistle

Former Pars players Andy Dowie and Jordan McMillan are now at Thistle but even they won't know what to expect from the young side that has come together since they left East End Park just over a month ago.  Chris Kane is suspended as is Thistle's Aaron Muirhead.

Referee will be Willie Collum

Come on ye Pars!

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