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matches:2018-19: ← 24game 2526 →

36y, 8m, 3d	Gary Caldwell	Jim Goodwin

Aidan Fitzpatrick
Andréa M'Buyi-Mutombo

Kris Doolan (1-0, pen 18 mins); Blair Spittal (2-1, 37 mins)		Kevin Cawley (1-1, 24 mins); Dario Zanatta (2-2, 59 mins)
none (1-0, pen 18 mins); none (2-1, 37 mins)		Alan Trouten (1-1, 24 mins); Iain Flannigan (2-2, 59 mins)
Stuart Bannigan		Steven Hetherington; Iain Flannigan

Aidan Fitzpatrick (Andy McCarthy, 72 mins); Kris Doolan (Chris Erskine, 81 mins)		Kevin Cawley (Connor Shields, 67 mins); Alan Trouten (Jon Robertson, 84 mins)

21y, 3m, 9d	Jamie Sneddon	Neil Parry
27y, 6m, 19d	Christie Elliott	Scott Taggart
19y, 11m, 23d	James Penrice	Liam Dick
19y, 10m, 15d	Dan Jefferies	Sam Roscoe
25y, 4m, 4d	Sean McGinty	Andy Graham
30y, 8m, 14d	Tam Scobbie	Steven Hetherington
26y, 2m, 28d	Stuart Bannigan	Kevin Cawley
17y, 8m, 25d	Aidan Fitzpatrick	Alan Trouten
32y, 0m, 4d	Kris Doolan	Iain Flannigan former Jag
22y, 11m, 26d	Blair Spittal	Jake Hastie future Jag
24y, 11m, 11d	Miles Storey	Dario Zanatta future Jag

24y, 5m, 2d

17y, 9m, 2d	Jamie Stevenson	Chris Henry
23y, 8m, 10d	Niall Keown	Jon Robertson
31y, 10m, 7d	Chris Erskine	Greig Spence
20y, 1m, 25d	Andy McCarthy	Liam Burt
28y, 6m, 9d	Andréa M'Buyi-Mutombo	Adam Brown
19y, 5m, 22d	Callum Wilson	Ahmed Aloulou
25y, 7m, 16d	Brice Ntambwe	Connor Shields

	Teamlines derived from PTFC / SPFL. Thistle generally in playing order, opposition in squad number order.
	1990 (SPFL)

In dreadful conditions Thistle (8th) never managed to subdue Alloa (9th). Doolan scored with a pen (foul, 18) but gifted possession led to a goal from a cut-back (24). Spittal fired a free-kick against the wall but scored with the rebound (37). A 20-yard strike (59) made it 2-2. A fair result. Thistle deserved no better.

The points were shared at Firhill as Partick Thistle and Alloa played out a pre-Christmas cracker. Thistle broke the deadlock on 18 minutes when Christie Elliot’s clever footwork forced a clumsy challenge inside the box from Jake Hastie. Kris Doolan scored the resulting spot-kick. But the Wasps hit back after an incredible solo run from Alan Trouten who then crossed for Kevin Cawley to tap in from six yards.

The topsy-turvy encounter took another twist before the break when Blair Spittal restored Thistle’s lead with a half-volley that thundered past goalkeeper Neil Parry, Spittal reacting first after his free-kick had been blocked.

Alloa, though, refused to buckle and they hit back for a second time 12 minutes after the restart when Dario Zannatta drilled in from 25 yards, giving Jamie Sneddon in the Thistle goal no chance. There were chances at either end in the closing stages but neither side could add to the scoring.

Tom MacKinnon, 15-Dec-2018, The Scotsman

Partick Thistle manager Gary Caldwell (speaking to ptfc.co.uk):

It was a pretty poor game all in all, not helped by the conditions. For us, to take the lead twice and still not get the three points is very disappointing. I don’t necessarily think we deserved to win the game but once you take the lead, it becomes a game we should win. We conceded two bad goals when we were ahead and had something to defend. We realised quite early that the formation we wanted to play wasn’t going to work with the way the ball was moving on the surface so around the time of the first goal, we switched it up and changed to a front two because we felt we needed to be more direct. At the end of the day, the conditions were tough but if we’d done the basics well while we were in front we would have won the game.

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