Dunfermline Athletic

Preview Forfar Athletic

Saturday, 24th Oct 2015

Ladbrokes League One: Saturday 24th October 2015, kick off 3.00pm at East End Park

Dunfermline Athletic welcome Dick Campbell's Forfar Athletic to East End Park on Saturday and this will be the third meeting between the teams this season. The first in the Petrofac Training Cup was a 3-0 win for the Fifers in Forfar and when they returned on the first Saturday in September it was a 4-0 victory for Allan Johnston's team.
In the first game a Michael Moffat penalty put the Pars ahead in 32 minutes, Faissal El Bakhtaoui added a second just before half time and Moffat sealed the 3-0 win with an 82nd minute strike. The 4-0 league win will be remembered for a Joe Cardle hattrick before Andy Geggan got a late fourth.

Milestones Forfar Athletic (home)
Last Victory

11/05/13

1-2

First Div Play Off

Last Defeat

25/04/15

1-3

League One

Best Victory

08/09/51

7-2

Div Two*

Worst Defeat

10/03/51

2-4

Div Two*

*Pre league reconstruction

This will be the 69th league meeting of the teams and Dunfermline have won 40 to Forfar's 18. Ten have been drawn including three of the last four matches at East End Park. Forfar have won only four times in Dunfermline; in seasons 1922-23, 1950-51 and 1983-84 - all in the Scottish Second Division. Then there was the 3-1 win in April 2015 against a very down beaten Pars side.

Dunfermline Forfar Athletic
Current League Position
1 5
League Form last six results
WLWDWW WWWWD
League Points
22 15
Goal Difference
+25 +4
League Record
P11, W7, D1, L2 P11, W4, D3, L3

League Form

Form league home / away
Dunfermline (home) Forfar Athletic (away)
Albion Rovers W 3-0 Peterhead D 2-2
Airdrieonians L 0-4 Cowdenbeath L 1-2
Ayr United D 1-1 Brechin City W 2-0
Stranraer W 2-1 Ayr United D 2-2
Cowdenbeath W 7-1 Airdrieonians W

1-0

Forfar Athletic have now won only one of their last eight matches in stark contrast to their season's start when they won five out of the first six, losing only to Dunfermline. Last week they were two up at home against Ian McCall's Ayr United only to allow their ten men opponents salvage a draw.  That draw created the opportunity for the Pars to retake top spot with a 3-0 win at Stranraer, their best ever in the league.

Last Time Out

DUNFERMLINE (v Stranraer):
 Sean Murdoch; Lewis Martin, Marc McAusland, Ben Richards-Everton, Jason Talbot; Michael Paton (Rhys McCabe 81), Andy Geggan, Shaun Byrne, Joe Cardle (Mickael Antoine-Curier 67), Michael Moffat, David Hopkirk (Ryan Wallace 75)
SUBS NOT USED: Lewis Spence, Shaun Rooney, Faissal El Bakhtaoui, David Hutton (GK).

FORFAR ATHLETIC: (v Ayr United): Rab Douglas; Mark Baxter, Michael Travis (Kerr Hay 8), Kevin Nicoll, Iain Campbell; Andrew Black, Thomas O'Brien, Bryan Hodge, Danny Denholm (Martyn Fotheringham 69), Chris Templeman (Craig Smith 69), Gavin Swankie,
SUBS NOT USED: Michael Kennedy, Cameron Clark, Scott Gallagher, (GK).

Referee will be Stephen Finnie.

Come on ye Pars!



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