20th Oct 2018 Alloa Athletic 1 Partick Thistle 0 (SPFL Championship - game 10)

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Match Information

			Jim Goodwin		Gary Caldwell			36y, 6m, 8d
					Brice Ntambwe
					Blair Spittal
Dario Zanatta (0-1, 50 mins)
none (0-1, 50 mins)
Kevin Cawley; Dario Zanatta
Kevin Cawley (Steven Hetherington, 65 mins); Alan Trouten (Jake Hastie, 65 mins); Connor Shields (Adam Brown, 81 mins)					Miles Storey (Souleymane Coulibaly, 57 mins); Brice Ntambwe (Jai Quitongo, 76 mins); Chris Erskine (Blair Spittal, 85 mins)
			Neil Parry		Cammy Bell			32y, 1m, 2d
			Scott Taggart		Christie Elliott			27y, 4m, 24d
			Liam Dick		James Penrice			19y, 9m, 28d
			Sam Roscoe		Niall Keown			23y, 6m, 15d
			Andy Graham		Sean McGinty			25y, 2m, 9d
			Kevin Cawley		Stuart Bannigan			26y, 1m, 3d
			Jon Robertson		Craig Slater			24y, 5m, 24d
			Alan Trouten		Brice Ntambwe			25y, 5m, 21d
			former Jag Iain Flannigan		Kris Doolan			31y, 10m, 9d
			future Jag Dario Zanatta		Chris Erskine			31y, 8m, 12d
			Connor Shields		Miles Storey			24y, 9m, 16d
								26y, 7m, 1d
			Chris Henry		Jamie Sneddon			21y, 1m, 14d
			Steven Hetherington		Blair Spittal			22y, 10m, 1d
			Greig Spence		Max Melbourne			19y, 11m, 26d
			Liam Burt		Andy McCarthy			20y, 0m, 0d
			Adam Brown		Andréa M'Buyi-Mutombo			28y, 4m, 14d
			future Jag Jake Hastie		Souleymane Coulibaly			23y, 9m, 24d
			Reis Peggie		Jai Quitongo			21y, 1m, 6d

notes

Thistle generally in playing order, opposition in squad number order.

Match Report

TTA report

Caldwell appointed 15 October. Clueless Thistle with their incessant square and backward passing posed no threat to a no better than workmanlike Alloa. A free-kick into the box was drilled in (50) for their first league win. Only sub Coulibaly (his first football in over a year) injected some threat up front. Says it all really.

Media report

Charlie Mann, 20-Oct-2018, bbc.com

Alloa Athletic earned their first league win of the season, consigning Gary Caldwell to defeat in his debut as Partick Thistle manager. It was the visitors' seventh loss in 10 Scottish Championship matches. Dario Zanatta's neat second-half turn and finish proved decisive. He almost doubled his tally 10 minutes from time, drawing a superb save from Cammy Bell. Kris Doolan, Craig Slater and Souleymane Coulibaly squandered chances to level for Thistle. The win takes Alloa within two points of eighth-placed Thistle and four clear of bottom side Falkirk.

Reaction

Partick Thistle manager Gary Caldwell (speaking to the BBC):

It was a disappointing result but not a disappointing performance. Fine margins define matches and decide football games and they are just going against us at the moment. We were in control for much of the game, and I said to the players that as long as they show the level of application they did today, we will work on it and get it right. We understand the pressures and we have to work hard and put the little decisions in the final third right.

Alloa Athletic manager Jim Goodwin (speaking to the BBC):

We spoke before the match about the importance of a clean sheet so great to have that today and to make us hard to defeat. Hopefully that's the one-nil which will kick us on upwards. We could have won some of our previous matches and while it is all about staying up for us, I have a lot of belief in the squad and we have just lacked a little bit of belief, but it is coming.

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YET ANOTHER RECORD-MAKING DEFEAT FOR THE CLUB

● The 26th managerial reign begins with Gary Caldwell's first game in charge. He becomes the 24th individual to take permanent charge of the Partick Thistle first team, and the tenth of that group to have been capped as a Scottish internationalist.

● 23-year-old Souleymane Coulibaly makes his Thistle debut.

● Thistle continue on their very strange run of 21 competitive games without a draw. You need to rewind back 65 years (season 1953-54) to find a longer sequence (25).

● Thistle lose a third consecutive competitive game versus Alloa Athletic, the H2H record.

● For first time in history, Thistle lose a third consecutive game under three different managers. Some going, even by our standards!

● For first time in history, Thistle have opened the away legs of a second tier campaign with 5 straight defeats.

ongoing sequences:

● 4 consecutive competitive defeats, 28th Sep 2018 to date. (Longest run since: 4 defeats, 17th Mar 2018 to 7th Apr 2018. Club-record: 14 defeats, 3rd Jan 1898 to 15th Oct 1898.)

● 4 consecutive League defeats; 28th Sep 2018 to date. (Longest run since: 4 defeats; 17th Mar 2018 to 7th Apr 2018. Club-record: 12 defeats; 27th Feb 1909 to 25th Aug 1909.)

● 5 consecutive away League defeats; 4th Aug 2018 to date. (Longest run since: 6 defeats; 16th Jan 2010 to 20th Mar 2010. Club-record: 14 defeats; 6th Apr 1912 to 25th Jan 1913.)

● 5 consecutive competitive away defeats; 25th Aug 2018 to date. (Longest run since: 5 defeats; 10th Feb 2018 to 3rd Apr 2018. Club-record: 11 defeats; 4th Dec 1897 to 15th Oct 1898.)

● 21 competitive games without a draw, 8th May 2018 to date. (Longest run since: 21 games; 16th Nov 1963 to 29th Feb 1964. Club-record: 27 games; 18th Feb 1899 to 23rd Dec 1899.)

● 27 consecutive competitive appearances for Blair Spittal, 31st Mar 2018 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Ryan Edwards - 35 games; 8th Aug 2017 to 3rd Apr 2018. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games; 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

● 59 games since back-to-back League wins, 11th Mar 2017 to date. (Longest run since: 71 games; 16th Apr 2013 to 14th Mar 2015. Club-record: 77 games; 2nd Nov 1912 to 5th Dec 1914.)

Stats Watch adheres to our stated definitions of League, League Max, Major Competitive, Competitive or All Games. Where there is no written qualification, you should presume that the Stat in question is compiled from the All Games criteria.

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