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matches:2014-15: ← 33game 3435 →

37y, 6m, 25d	Alan Archibald	John Hughes

Christie Elliott; Dan Seaborne; Gary Fraser
Callum Booth; Conrad Balatoni; Kris Doolan

Lyle Taylor (1-2, 67 mins)		Marley Watkins (0-1, 16 mins); Greg Tansey (0-2, 27 mins)
Stephen O'Donnell (1-2, 67 mins)
Christie Elliott		Gary Warren

Gary Fraser (James Craigen, HT); Kallum Higginbotham (Lyle Taylor, HT); Steven Lawless (Kris Doolan, 63 mins)		Nick Ross (Ryan Christie, 76 mins); Marley Watkins (Danny Devine, 89 mins)

35y, 5m, 22d	Paul Gallacher	Ryan Esson
22y, 8m, 27d	Stephen O'Donnell	David Raven
23y, 8m, 12d	Christie Elliott	Graeme Shinnie
27y, 11m, 2d	Dan Seaborne	James Vincent
26y, 1m, 4d	Freddy Frans	Josh Meekings
27y, 11m, 11d	Abdul Osman	Gary Warren
22y, 4m, 21d	Stuart Bannigan	Ross Draper
20y, 7m, 5d	Gary Fraser	Nick Ross
30y, 5m, 14d	Ryan Stevenson	Marley Watkins
23y, 9m, 26d	Steven Lawless	Greg Tansey
25y, 7m, 23d	Kallum Higginbotham	Danny Williams

26y, 0m, 26d

27y, 7m, 10d	Scott Fox	Cameron Mackay
24y, 0m, 11d	Conrad Balatoni	Danny Devine future Jag
23y, 10m, 10d	James Craigen	Lewis Horner
28y, 1m, 27d	Kris Doolan	Carl Tremarco
19y, 2m, 16d	Declan McDaid	Liam Polworth
24y, 10m, 9d	Lyle Taylor	Ryan Christie
20y, 7m, 11d	Dale Keenan	Calum Ferguson

	Teamlines derived from PTFC.
	2915 (PTFC)

Thistle were lucky it was only 2-0 at h-t (goals 16 and 27). Poor all over the park. 2 strikers on the bench. Playing 2 up front in the 2nd half brought an improvement and ICT no longer bossed the game. Sub Taylor smashed the ball home (67). Thistle pressed but a Seaborne header was the closest they got to an equaliser.

First half strikes by Marley Watkins and Greg Tansey earned Inverness a Scottish Cup quarter-final spot. Watkins opened the scoring with a drive across goal after outstripping the Partick Thistle defence. The home back line was suspect once more when they gave up possession to Tansey and he superbly jinked into the box and fired low into the corner. The hosts made a game of it after substitute Lyle Taylor cracked a drive home but Inverness held firm. Watkins alerted the home side to his threat early on when he sprinted clean through on goalkeeper Paul Gallacher, only to see his shot well saved. The Firhill men contributed to the loss of the opener with a slack ball into a central area that Abdul Osman failed to gather. Watkins raced away from a sluggish defence, picked his spot and calmly slotted into far corner to put the visitors ahead. Minutes later Watkins was clean through again after James Vincent released the striker with a superb pass, but composure evaded the Caley Thistle man this time and he sent his effort wide. Shambolic defending seemed the order of the day for the hosts in the first half and Stephen O'Donnell was at it again it with a woeful piece of play. He dithered in a central area and lost possession, allowing Tansey to dance around defenders before firing powerfully home. Partick offered very little in the opening half but the introduction of recently-recruited Taylor transformed their performance. He gathered inside the box, out-muscled a defender and powered a drive high past keeper Ryan Esson to reduce the deficit. The hosts remained on the front foot and nearly snatched a last minute equaliser when Danny Seabourne rose superbly to nod towards goal, only for Esson to tip the ball away. Partick's fans will be cheered by a vastly improved second half performance but it is Inverness who go into Monday's quarter-final draw.

Martin Dowden, bbc.com

VANISHING SPRAY FIRST

● Returning for a second loan spell, Lyle Taylor becomes the 35th player to appear for Partick Thistle this season, and the 26th to do so competitively.

● Thistle introduce two half-time substitutes for the first time in a competitive game since 11th September 2010, a 2-1 loss at home to Stirling Albion.

● Kris is involved in his 20th competitive substitution of the season.

● Stephenl provides an assist for the sixth time in this season's competitve games, cementing his position as this term's second biggest provider.

● Lyle becomes the 16th different player to score in competitive games for Thistle in 2014-15.

● In the 76th minute, Willie Collum became the first referee to use vanishing spray in a Partick Thistle match. The spray was carried by all referees appointed to this weekend's 5th Round Scottish Cup ties and will be introduced into all SPFL fixtures for the second half of the season. Scotland becomes the 13th European nation to use the spray, following on from its introduction at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

● Thistle are now 8 games without a win under the whistle of Willie Collum.

● Inverness CT equal their biggest ever victory at Firhill.

● Thistle suffer back-to-back defeats for the first time since 26th March 2014, when a single goal defeat vs. Inverness CT on the Saturday was followed by a 1-5 defeat at home to Celtic on the Wednesday.

● Thistle are knocked out of the Scottish Cup by the eventual winners for the 21st time.

ongoing sequences:

● 14 consecutive competitive appearances for Stephen O'Donnell and Ryan Stevenson (a new personal best), 8th Nov 2014 to date. (Longest run since: Abdul Osman - 22 games, 13th Aug 2014 to 27th Dec 2014. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

● 30 competitive games since back-to-back draws, 7th May 2014 to date. (Longest run since: 59 games, 18th Aug 2009 to 11th Dec 2010. Club-record: 201 games, 11th Feb 1957 to 1st Apr 1961.)

● 63 competitive games since back-to-back wins, 14th Sep 2013 to date. (Longest run since the club-record: 69 games, 31st Dec 1907 to 9th Oct 1909.)

● 63 League games since back-to-back Top Flight wins, 9th May 2004 to date. (Longest run since the club-record: 77 games, 2nd Nov 1912 to 5th Dec 1914.)

● 69 competitive games since back-to-back clean-sheets, 6th Aug 2013 to date. (Longest run since: 102 games, 27th Apr 2002 to 23rd Oct 2004. Club-record: 303 games, 26th Feb 1938 to 23rd Jun 1945.)

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