Preview Alloa Athletic

Ladbrokes Championship (home) Saturday 28th September 3.00pm kick off at East End Park

Peter Grant’s Alloa Athletic return to East End Park just two weeks after winning their Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer Challenge Cup tie victory. That win was their first at Dunfermline since 1976 and this will be the chance for the Pars to take welcome revenge and hopefully three league points.

It is seventh placed Dunfermline v ninth placed Alloa who sit just one point behind their hosts in the Championship.

The teams have met 88 times in all competitions and Dunfermline have the advantage with 35 wins to Alloa’s 29. 24 matches have been drawn.

Milestones v Alloa Athletic (home)
Last home win | 19/05/13 | 1-0 | First Division Play off
Last home defeat | 14/09/19 | 1-2 | TCW Challenge Cup
Best home win: | 30/01/58 | 8-1 | Second Division
Worst home defeat: | 11/09/1886 | 4-8 | Scottish Cup
Last home goalless draw | 15/09/18 | 0-0 | Championship
First home league meeting: | 10/09/21 | 0-1 | Division Two

Last 12 meetings against Alloa Athletic

Two Alloa wins, seven Dunfermline wins with three drawn In the last twelve meetings. It is five home games back since Alloa experienced defeat at East End Park.

14/09/19 | Dunfermline 1 Alloa Athletic 2 | TCW Challenge Cup
09/03/19 | Alloa Athletic 0 Dunfermline 1 | Championship
05/01/19 | Dunfermline 2 Alloa Athletic 2 | Championship
03/11/18 | Alloa Athletic 0 Dunfermline 1 | Championship
13/10/18 | Dunfermline 2 Alloa Athletic 2 | Irn Bru Cup
15/09/18 | Dunfermline 0 Alloa Athletic 0 | Championship
21/01/17 | Alloa Athletic 2 Dunfermline 3 | Scottish Cup
19/05/13 | Dunfermline 1 Alloa Athletic 0 | Div One Play off
15/05/13 | Alloa Athletic 3 Dunfermline 0 | Div One Play off
26/08/08 | Dunfermlne 1 Alloa Athletic 0 | League Cup
26/09/01 | Dunfermline 3 Alloa Athletic 0 | League Cup
20/08/91 | Dunfermline 4 Alloa Athletic 1 | League Cup

Last League Meeting at East End Park
Dunfermline 2 Alloa Athletic 2
Saturday 5th January 2019

East End Park’s first goal of 2019 was scored by on loan striker Aidan KEENA who took an 18th minute chance from 20 yards out on the right side and smashed the ball into the far side of the net. 1-0

Ten minutes later Dunfermline were to extend their lead when Iain FLANNIGAN could not avoid directing the ball into his own net. James Vincent won possession well inside the Pars half. His pass sent Keena racing in on the right side of the Alloa box to release a shot that Neil Parry beat out only to go past him off his own player. 2-0

Just three minutes into the second half, Alloa broke and a cross from the left found TROUTEN well placed to hit the ball into the Pars goal at the left goalpost. 2-1.

In the third minute of added time from a free kick in his own half, keeper Neil Parry launched the ball forward sub Greig Spence sent the ball right for TROUTEN and he picked his spot from the edge of the box low left for a dramatic and disappointing finale. The part time surveyor’s 14th goal of the season meant it ended 2-2.

DUNFERMLINE: Lee Robinson: James Craigen (Ryan Williamson 57), Lee Ashcroft (c), Danny Devine, Jackson Longridge: Tom Beadling, Joe Thomson, James Vincent: Myles Hippolyte, Aidan Keena, Kallum Higginbotham.
SUBS NOT USED: Faissal El Bakhtaoui, Callum Smith, Robbie Muirhead, Lewis McCann, Mark Durnan, Cammy Gill (GK)
SCORERS: Keena (18), Flannigan (28 og).

ALLOA ATHLETIC: Neil Parry: Scott Taggart, Andy Graham, Sam Roscoe, Liam Dick: Connor Shields (Kevin Cawley 74), Steven Hetherington (Greig Spence 86) Iain Flannigan, Jordan Kirkpatrick (Liam Burt 81): Alan Trouten, Dario Zanatta.
SUBS NOT USED: Jon Robertson, Adam Brown, Ahmed Aloulou, Chris Henry (GK)
SCORERS: Trouten (49, 90+3)

Form Last Six Matches

DUNFERMLINE
Partick Thistle (A) W 3-0
Inverness Caley Thistle (H) L 0-1
Alloa Athletic (H) L 1-2
Arbroath (A) L 0-1
Dundee United (H) L 0-2
Celtic (A) L 1-2 AET

ALLOA ATHLETIC
Ayr United (H) L 1-4
Dundee (A) L 1-2
Dunfermline (A) W 2-1
Queen of the South (A) W 1-0
Arbroath (A) H) L 0-1
Morton (A) L 1-4

Recent Form

Dunfermline recorded their first league win of the season last time out and have taken a point in matches against Queen of the South and Dundee.

Alloa took three points with a 1-0 win at Palmerston Park and one point in the home draw against Partick Thistle.

DUNFERMLINE
League Position: 7th
League Points: 5
Goal Difference: -1
League Record: P6 W1 D2 L3 GF6 GA7
Last Six Match Form: DLLLLW

ALLOA ATHLETIC
League Position: 9th
League Points: 4
Goal Difference: -7
League Record: P6 W1 D1 L4 GF5 GA12
Last Six Match Form: LLWWLL

Last time out

DUNFERMLINE (v Partick Thistle): Cammy Gill: Aaron Comrie, Lee Ashcroft, Lewis Martin, Josh Edwards: Ryan Dow (Tom Beadling 61), Paul Paton (c), Kyle Turner, Greg Kiltie (Harry Cochrane 79), Gabby McGill (Lewis McCann HT), Kevin Nisbet.
SUBS NOT USED: Josh Coley, Andy Ryan, Stuart Morrison, Ryan Scully (GK)

ALLOA ATHLETIC (v Ayr United): Jamie MacDonald: Scott Taggart, Robbie Deas (Jon Robertson 45), Andy Graham, Liam Dick: Kevin Cawley, Steven Hetherington, Iain Flannigan, Kevin O’Hara: Liam Buchanan (Adam Brown 45), Robert Thomson.
SUBS NOT USED: Nathan Gilhooley, Cammy O’Donnel, Paul Gillespie, Chris Henry (GK).

Other Championship Fixtures

Queen of the South v Dundee (Friday night)
Arbroath v Ayr United
Dundee United v Morton
Inverness Caley Thistle v Partick Thistle

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