Preview Partick Thistle

cinch Championship (home) Saturday 7th August 2021, kick off 3.00pm at East End Park

For the first home match of the 2021-2022 league season Dunfermline welcome Partick Thistle to East End Park. Just four weeks after the sides met in the Premier Sports Cup at Firhill the Pars meet the League One champions on their home ground. The visitors are one of only three Championship teams on maximum points after one game.

Milestones Partick Thistle (home)
Last League Victory | 30/11/19 | 5-1 | Championship
Last League Defeat | 02/03/13 | 0-4 | First Div
Best League Victory | 18/04/59 | 10-1 | Div One*
Worst League Defeat | 07/01/28 | 1-7 | Div One*
Last Goalless Draw | 14/10/10 | 0-0 | First Div
*Pre league reconstruction

In the previous 89 league meetings Dunfermline have won 37, Partick 27 and 25 have been drawn.

Dunfermline v Partick Thistle: The Full League Record
P | W | D | L | For | Agst
45 | 22 | 14 | 9 | 79 | 58 | At East End Park
44 | 15 | 11 | 18 | 56 | 73 | At Firhill
89 | 37 | 25 | 27 | 135 | 131 | TOTALS

Last time at East End Park
Dunfermline 5 Partick Thistle 1
Saturday 30 November 2019, Championship

The outcome of this match was more or less determined after four minutes. Kiltie dispossessed Tam O’Ware out on the right side and as he was about to put the trigger on his shot eight yards out, O’Ware took him down. Referee Mike Roncone pointed to the spot and then produced a red card for the Thistle captain. Kevin NISBET stepped up and sent the ball to Jamie Sneddon’s left. 1-0

MARTIN slotted past Sneddon at his near post and Lewis’ first goal since January 2015 made it 2-0 just six minutes later.

Nisbet was deemed to have been taken down by Reece Cole as he tried to control the ball and the referee was pointing to the spot again. NISBET stepped up again and this time buried the ball on the bottom left. 3-0

When Kakay headed the ball out from a corner it dropped for NISBET on the right side of the box and he drilled the ball into the far side of the net. 4-0

Nisbet the first half’s hat trick hero scored the Fifers fifth. It was just the fourth minute of the second half when Dow’s cross from near the right corner flag was cleverly turned back by Beadling for NISBET to convert from six yards. 5-0

With fifteen minutes remaining Devine held Miller and COLE struck the resulting 35 yard free kick sweetly into the bottom left of the home net. 5-1

DUNFERMLINE: Cammy Gill: Aaron Comrie, Lee Ashcroft, Danny Devine, Lewis Martin: Ryan Dow (Joe Thomson 63), Paul Paton (c) (Harry Cochrane HT), Tom Beadling, Greg Kiltie: Kevin Nisbet (Gabby McGill 56), Andy Ryan.
SUBS NOT USED: Kyle Turner, Josh Edwards, Lewis McCann, Ben Swinton (GK).

PARTICK THISTLE: Jamie Sneddon: Osman Kakay, Tom O`Ware (c), Steven Saunders (Cammy Palmer 52), James Penrice: Stuart Bannigan, Reece Cole, Craig Slater, Joe Cardle (Sean McGinty 6), Kenny Miller, Dario Zanatta (Tommy Robson HT)
SUBS NOT USED: Alex Jones, Gary Harkins, Raffaelle De Vita, Luke Scullion (GK).

Last Twelve Matches v Partick Thistle
The last dozen games between the teams have seen Dunfermline win six, drawn three and lost three. Thistle have not won in the last six meetings between the clubs.

Date | H/A | F-A | Scorers
10/07/21 A 4-2 [0-1] Graham, [1-1] Todorov, [2-1] Comrie, [3-1] Macdonald, [4-1] Todorov, [4-2] Rudden.
10/03/20 A 1-1 [1-0] Murray [1-1] Graham.
30/11/19 H 5-1 [1-0] Nisbet [2-0] Martin [3-0] Nisbet [4-0] Nisbet [5-0] Nisbet [5-1] Cole.
21/09/19 A 3-0 [1-0] Nisbet, [2-0] Dow, [3-0] Turner
06/04/19 A 2-2 [1-0] Beadling: [2-0] Anderson: [1-2] Blair (og): [2-2] McDonald.
26/02/19 H 3-0 [1-0] Anderson, [2-0] Devine, [3-0] Anderson
08/12/18 A 0-2 [0-1] Spittal, [0-2] Storey.
28/09/18 H 1-0 [1-0] Connolly
27/04/13 A 3-3 [0-1] McMillan, [1-1] Wallace, [2-1] Thomson, [3-1] Thomson, [2-3] Erskine, [3-3] Lawless.
02/03/13 H 0-4 [0-1] Craig, [0-2] Forbes, [0-3] Craig, [0-4] Craig.
01/12/12 A [1-0] Barrowman.
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.

This Season

Thistle have won three and lost two of their matches this season. In their first Championship match last Saturday at home to Queen of the South they came back from conceding a Willie Gibson goal to lead 2-1 but in 74 minutes their opponents equalised and it took a Scott Tiffoney goal five minutes from time to take all three points.

Dunfermline’s league season got off to a start with a 2-2 draw at Morton and after coming from behind to lead 2-1 lost a freak goal nine minutes from time. This season they have won three, drawn one and lost 1-0 away to Premiership opposition.

DUNFERMLINE
Morton (A) D 2-2
Stenhousemuir (H) W 4-1
Dumbarton (H) W 5-1
St Mirren (A) L 0-1
Partick Thistle (A) W 4-2

PARTICK THISTLE
Queen of the South (H) W 3-2
St Mirren (A) L 0-2
Dumbarton (H) W 2-0
Stenhousemuir (A) W 2-1
Dunfermline (H) L 2-4

Last Season

DUNFERMLINE
Scottish Championship
League Position: 4th
League Points: 40
Goal Difference: +4
Home League Record: P13 W9 D3 L2 GF24 GA13

Last Six Match Form: LWLWWD

PARTICK THISTLE
League One
League Position: 1st
League Points: 40
Goal Difference: +22
Away League Record: P11 W5 D5 L3 GF18 GA11

Last Six Match Form: LLWWLW

Last Time Out



DUNFERMLINE (v Morton): Deniz Mehmet: Aaron Comrie, Paul Watson, Ross Graham: Kyle Macdonald, Graham Dorrans, Dom Thomas (c)(Reece Cole 63), Josh Edwards: Kevin O’Hara, Nikolay Todorov (Dan Pybus 86), Craig Wighton (Kai Kennedy 75)
SUBS NOT USED: Rhys Breen, Vytas Gašpuitis, Paul Allan, Owain Fôn Williams: (GK)

PARTICK THISTLE (v Queen of the South Jamie Sneddon: Lewis Mayo, Steven Bell, Kevin Holt, Ciaran McKenna: Kyle Turner (Smith 63), Ross Docherty (c), Stuart Bannigan, Richard Foster: Brian Graham, Zak Rudden (Scott Tiffoney 70).
SUBS NOT USED: Shea Gordon, Connor Murray, Ross MacIver, Mouhamed Niang, Harry Stone.

Three former Pars potentially lining up against their old club - Lewis Mayo, Kyle Turner and Steven Bell.

Referee will be Craig Napier.

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Hamilton Accies v Morton
Inverness Caley Thistle v Raith Rovers
Queen of the South v Kilmarnock

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