7th Oct 2013 Partick Thistle 0 Hibernian 1 (SPFL Premiership - game 9)

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36y, 2m, 24d	Alan Archibald	Pat Fenlon

Scott Fox; Steven Lawless
Paul Gallacher; Christie Elliott

		Liam Craig (0-1, 69 mins)
		Abdellah Zoubir (0-1, 69 mins)
Sean Welsh		Lewis Stevenson

Steven Lawless (Christie Elliott, 64 mins); Stuart Bannigan (John Baird, 73 mins); Kallum Higginbotham (Ross Forbes, 79 mins)		Tom Taiwo (Abdellah Zoubir, 63 mins); James Collins (Owain Tudur Jones, 63 mins); Scott Robertson (Sam Stanton, 89 mins)

26y, 3m, 9d	Scott Fox	Ben Williams
21y, 4m, 26d	Stephen O'Donnell	Ryan McGivern
22y, 5m, 29d	Aaron Taylor-Sinclair	Paul Hanlon
22y, 8m, 10d	Conrad Balatoni	Michael Nelson
23y, 1m, 7d	Aaron Muirhead	Scott Robertson
23y, 6m, 22d	Sean Welsh	Liam Craig
21y, 0m, 20d	Stuart Bannigan	James Collins
27y, 3m, 15d	Isaac Osbourne	Lewis Stevenson
26y, 9m, 26d	Kris Doolan	Tom Taiwo
22y, 5m, 25d	Steven Lawless	Paul Heffernan
24y, 3m, 22d	Kallum Higginbotham	Kevin Thomson

23y, 9m, 9d

34y, 1m, 21d	Paul Gallacher	Sean Murdoch
22y, 6m, 9d	James Craigen	James McPake
24y, 7m, 4d	Ross Forbes	Rowan Vine
23y, 11m, 22d	Gabriel Piccolo	Owain Tudur Jones
22y, 4m, 11d	Christie Elliott	Fraser Mullen
28y, 1m, 15d	John Baird	Sam Stanton
19y, 3m, 5d	Gary Fraser	Abdellah Zoubir

TTA report

Another frustrating night. Majority of possession, corners, shots and shots on target. Balatoni's shot was blocked, Doolan's header was just over. His 1-on-1 with keeper was smothered then Elliot's shot was saved by keeper's feet. Hibs scored (69) with their 1st shot on goal. It was well taken. Oh for a striker!

Media report

07-Oct-2013, bbc.com

Hibs moved up to fifth place in the Scottish Premiership thanks to a sixth goal of the season from Liam Craig. The midfielder arrowed a first-time shot into the top corner from 16 yards on 69 minutes at Firhill. Partick Thistle striker Kris Doolan headed narrowly over and wasted a one-on-one opportunity with a tame shot straight at Ben Williams. The Hibs keeper then kept out a close-range effort from Christie Elliott and tipped away a Ross Forbes shot. Craig's impressive finish was just Hibs' eighth goal in nine league outings, pushing the Edinburgh side level on 14 points with fourth-placed Aberdeen. The defeat means the Jags are still without a victory at home in the Premiership and have gone six games since their last win.

Four minutes into the match the hosts earned an indirect free-kick on the visitors' six yard line after Williams collected a back-pass, but Sean Welsh's powerful drive was blocked by Michael Nelson. Moments later, Thistle keeper Scott Fox had to rely on some deft footwork to prevent Paul Heffernan latching onto a long ball. Stuart Bannigan fired a ball into the Hibs penalty area for Kallum Higginbotham to run onto, but Paul Hanlon made a surgically-precise tackle to clear the danger. Soon after, Higginbotham drilled in a 25-yard half-volley that Williams did well to contain. Hibs' best chance of the first period came from a Heffernan shot from the edge of the Thistle penalty area that drifted two yards wide of Fox's right-hand post. As the interval neared, Thistle full-back Stephen O'Donnell raced down the right and curved in a cross that Doolan leapt to meet, but his header flew just too high.

Five minutes after the restart, Doolan was allowed to race onto O'Donnell's long ball, but the striker could not take advantage of a free run at goal as his shot was comfortably saved by Williams. Welsh had a penalty claim waved away by referee Kevin Clancy and Higginbotham should have done better with a shot that cut across the Hibs penalty area. However, it was the visitors who finally opened the scoring in the 69th minute when substitute Abdellah Zoubir cut the ball across the 18-yard line for Craig to blast high into the net. With 10 minutes remaining, a corner for Thistle drifted across the face of goal, but no Jags jerseys were on hand to profit. The home side kept pressing and Elliot's shot from six yards was stopped by the foot of Williams at full-stretch. The Hibs captain had to get back to his feet quickly and was alert enough to spring up to his left and push away a 20-yard strike from Forbes. The same player was over a free-kick in added-on time but delivered something of an anti-climax for the home fans, the ball sailing over the bar and with it any hope of salvaging a point.

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