3rd Mar 2020 Partick Thistle 0 Queen of the South 0 (SPFL Championship - game 25)

matches:2019-20: ← 36game 3738 →

Match Information

55y, 5m, 2d			Ian McCall		Allan Johnston
Tommy Robson; Darren Brownlie; Lewis Mayo; Jamie Barjonas; Zak Rudden
Steven Saunders; Shea Gordon; Reece Cole; Alex Jones; Joe Cardle
Stuart Bannigan; Reece Cole					Dan Pybus
Jamie Barjonas (Reece Cole, 59 mins); James Penrice (Shea Gordon, 69 mins); Zak Rudden (Dario Zanatta, 71 mins)					Stephen Dobbie (Deimantas Petravičius, 81 mins)
32y, 8m, 4d			Scott Fox		Ross Stewart future Jag
19y, 7m, 4d			Lee O'Connor		Kevin Holt future Jag
24y, 5m, 21d			Tommy Robson		Lee Kilday
26y, 11m, 12d			Tam O'Ware		Michael Ledger
25y, 10m, 22d			Darren Brownlie		Callum Semple
19y, 11m, 13d			Lewis Mayo		Dan Pybus
27y, 5m, 15d			Stuart Bannigan		Lewis Kidd
21y, 2m, 10d			James Penrice		Darren Lyon
32y, 3m, 9d			Brian Graham		Iain Wilson
21y, 1m, 8d			Jamie Barjonas		Gary Oliver
20y, 0m, 26d			Zak Rudden		Stephen Dobbie
24y, 8m, 10d
22y, 5m, 26d			Jamie Sneddon		Jack Leighfield
22y, 0m, 15d			Reece Cole		Scott Mercer
21y, 9m, 16d			Shea Gordon		Jack Hamilton
34y, 4m, 23d			Darian MacKinnon		Deimantas Petravičius
22y, 5m, 12d			Lewis Mansell		Ross Irving
22y, 9m, 8d			Dario Zanatta		Ewan Gourlay
28y, 11m, 2d			Steven Saunders		Michael Paton

notes

Both sides generally in playing order.

Match Report

TTA report

There was lots of laboured, fruitless possession and Queens had a few chances. Thistle improved after half-time and Rudden's shot was blocked (60). A header was cleared off the line, a pen was cancelled by the ref (off-side awarded instead), Cole hit the bar with a free-kick. Thistle's 1st league clean sheet but only one point.

Media report

John Barnes, 03-Mar-2020, bbc.com

Partick Thistle and Queen of the South remain without a victory in 2020 after the Scottish Championship's bottom two fought out a goalless draw at Firhill. Neither side's relegation woes were eased, with Thistle still three adrift. Both hit the frame of the goal after the break through Reece Cole and Darren Brownlie respectively. And the hosts thought they had a late penalty when Dario Zanatta was pulled down, only for David Lowe to change his mind after speaking to his assistant. Prior to that, the visitors had the better first-half chances, with Gary Oliver, Stephen Dobbie and Kevin Holt all denied. But Thistle threatened in the second, with Zak Rudden twice going close and Brian Graham having a shot saved.

Reaction

Partick Thistle manager Ian McCall (speaking to the BBC):

I'm gutted with the result. We had five, six or seven chances to win the game and we never took them, and a penalty that was given then wasn't given which you rarely see.

Queen of the South manager Allan Johnston (speaking to the BBC):

The boys worked incredibly hard tonight, there wasn't much between the teams. We played and defended a lot better than we have been recently. Thankfully the penalty decision went our way.

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The Sun, 4th March, 2020

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Stats Watch

● 19-year-old Lewis Mayo makes his Thistle debut.

● 19-year-old Lee O'Connor plays his last game for Thistle.

● Ending a 12 game run in the H2H, Thistle and Queens play out a draw for the first time since a similar stalemate back in November, 2011.

● Thistle register this season's first clean-sheet in the League, on match day 25. It's the deepest point of the season to do so such a thing since the rather pathetic season of 1908-09, when a homeless Partick Thistle failed to register a single clean-sheet in the League.

● Partick Thistle are the last club across the 10 main British Leagues to register a clean-sheet in 2019-20.

● Goalie Scott Fox keeps his last clean-sheet for Thistle.

ongoing sequences:

● 6 competitive games without a home win; 21st Dec 2019 to date. (Longest run since: 6 games; 11th Aug 2017 to 14th Oct 2017. Club-record: 13 games; 13th Apr 1988 to 3rd Dec 1988.)

● 6 League games without a win; 4th Jan 2020 to date. (Longest run since: 6 games; 3rd Aug 2019 to 21st Sep 2019. Club-record: 26 games; 28th Nov 1908 to 2nd Oct 1909.)

● 8 competitive games without a win, 4th Jan 2020 to date. (Longest run since: 9 games, 28th Sep 2018 to 1st Dec 2018. Club-record: 26 games, 28th Nov 1908 to 28th Aug 1909.)

● 28 consecutive competitive appearances for James Penrice, 7th Sep 2019 to date. (Longest run since: Kenny Miller - 32 games, 13th Jul 2019 to 18th Jan 2020. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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