24th Aug 2024 Falkirk 2 Partick Thistle 1 (SPFL Championship - game 3)

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Match Information

			John McGlynn		Kris Doolan			37y, 8m, 13d
					Lee Ashcroft; Ben Stanway; Ricco Diack; Casper Nilsson
					Robbie Crawford; Logan Chalmers; Brian Graham; Scott Robinson
Liam Henderson (0-1, 58 mins); Brad Spencer (1-2, 83 mins)					Terry Ablade (1-1, 76 mins)
Coll Donaldson (0-1, 58 mins); Keelan Adams (1-2, 83 mins)					Kyle Turner (1-1, 76 mins)
Dylan Tait; Alfredo Agyeman					Ben Stanway; Ricco Diack; Kyle Turner; Myles Roberts
					Ben Stanway (@ 0-0, 25 mins)
Calvin Miller (Michael McKenna, 67 mins); Gary Oliver (Alfredo Agyeman, 67 mins); Ethan Ross (Callumn Morrison, 67 mins); Ross MacIver (Ryan Shanley, 84 mins); Dylan Tait (Finn Yeats, 84 mins)					Casper Nilsson (Stuart Bannigan, 59 mins); Ricco Diack (Terry Ablade, 59 mins); Lee Ashcroft (Logan Chalmers, 72 mins); Aidan Fitzpatrick (Charlie Sayers, 81 mins)
			Nicky Hogarth		Myles Roberts			22y, 8m, 15d
			Keelan Adams		Wasiri Williams			24y, 4m, 23d
			Sean Mackie		Harry Milne			27y, 9m, 26d
			former Jag Liam Henderson		Lee Ashcroft			30y, 11m, 26d
			Coll Donaldson		Daniel O'Reilly			29y, 4m, 13d
			former Jag Dylan Tait		Luke McBeth			24y, 11m, 15d
			Brad Spencer		Ben Stanway			19y, 11m, 4d
			Calvin Miller		Kyle Turner			26y, 9m, 14d
			Ross MacIver		Ricco Diack			19y, 3m, 17d
			Gary Oliver		Casper Nilsson			20y, 8m, 29d
			Ethan Ross		Aidan Fitzpatrick			23y, 5m, 4d
								24y, 6m, 31d
			Owen Hayward		Mason McCready			21y, 5m, 19d
			Finn Yeats		Stuart Bannigan			31y, 11m, 7d
			Leon McCann		Logan Chalmers			24y, 5m, 0d
			Callumn Morrison		Liam Smith			20y, 9m, 27d
			Alfredo Agyeman		Terry Ablade			22y, 10m, 12d
			Michael McKenna		Charlie Sayers			20y, 4m, 26d
			Ryan Shanley		James Lyon			21y, 9m, 28d
			Flynn McCafferty		Zander MacKenzie			18y, 11m, 27d
			Caelan McCrone

notes

Both sides generally in playing order. Thistle filled 8 of their 9 allocated bench slots. 6502 was the crowd announced on the PA, and the SPFL website (and others) concur. Thistle website has 6,102. 1144 away fans.

Match Report

TTA report

On an afternoon of annoying refereeing, Stanway was sent-off for a second yellow (simulation, 25) leaving Thistle up against it for over an hour. They defended resolutely and Roberts pulled off a string of excellent saves, but too much space was afforded and a 30-yard screamer (58) was the punishment. Debutant Ablade squeezed home a Turner pass (76) but too much space (again) allowed Falkirk the winner (83) from 12 yards.

TTA man of the match

It was another high-octane performance from HARRY MILNE who was just as likely to be blocking them on the line as terrorizing Falkirk in the final third. Oh, to be able to clone him.

Media report

26-Aug-2024, bbc.com

Brad Spencer’s late goal extended Falkirk’s perfect start to the Championship season with victory over 10-man Partick Thistle. Thistle played over an hour a man down after Ben Stanway’s dismissal following two bookings, the second of which for diving. Liam Henderson broke the deadlock in spectacular style just before the hour mark, his stunning 25-yard strike flying into the top corner. Thistle battled back bravely and substitute Terry Ablade poked home from 10 yards to draw the visitors level. Partick keeper Myles Roberts produced some stunning stops but was powerless to prevent Spencer smashing home the winner seven minutes from the end. Falkirk remain in second place in the table, while Thistle drop to ninth.

Reaction

Partick Thistle manager Kris Doolan (speaking to Jagzone):

It felt as if everything was going against us, we've got 7 players missing and then you lose somebody after 20 minutes, but one thing we can't question is the effort and the work-rate, especially down to ten. Nobody lay down and everybody worked their socks off and that's what supporters appreciate, you seen them staying with us right to the end. Although it's a defeat - and it's a sore one to take for us - we have to take the positives out of it. I thought Terry coming on showed why we brought him up. He's got real pace to burn and I think when you put him on a big pitch like Firhill with space in behind, he's going to gallop into that space. It was a really composed finish and at that point we're back into the game. I just think the second goal is a bit of tiredness down the sides, we've done so well to defend the wide areas up until that point. Their two goals are good finishes. We'll get through this and there's a long season ahead. Coming back to Firhill against Queen's Park we'll have a game plan, we'll freshen up and we'll have go to try and win three points.

Podcast

Option 1: pre-match

Matt Greer, David Forrest, Reiss Haldane and Jamie McDonald are here to talk the season so far look ahead to Saturday against Falkirk. David is then joined by John McInally and Ross Wayne from the Falkirk Daft podcast to talk about Falkirk ahead of our trip to Grangemouth. Tom Hosie fills us in with a full time match report on Thistle Women's midweek win over Spartans while David discuss the recent change of venue for Thistle Women. Then we choose our Right Player Wrong Time XI, before rounding off with some general fascinations and frustrations about football. (23-Aug-2024)

Option 2: post-match

Matt Greer, David Forrest, Reiss Haldane and Jamie McDonald are here to discuss our 2-1 loss to Falkirk. Also, Matt chats to QP fan Duncan Raeburn ahead of Saturday's Glasgow Derby, before Lynsey Kane joins him to discuss Thistle Women's big homecoming to Firhill. (29-Aug-2024)

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Video Highlights

Option 1: regular highlights

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Stats Watch

3-NATION DEBUTS

● 20-year-old Charlie Sayers makes his Thistle debut.

● 20-year-old Casper Nilsson makes his Thistle debut. He's the third Swede to do so, following on from Peter Lindau (1999) and Jonny Blom (2000).

● 22-year-old Terry Ablade makes his Thistle debut. He's the third Ghanaian to do so, following on from Prince Buaben (2014) and Abdul Osman (2014). The bold Terry becomes the latest member of our scoring debutant's club.

● The 3-nation debuts of Casper Nilsson (Sweden), Terry Ablade (Ghana) & Charlie Sayers (England) matches the club-record for any competitive match, and it's only the second time we've seen 3 non-Scots make their Thistle debut in the same league match. The only previous occurrence (on 1 April 2000) featured Dave Rogers (England), Russel Huggon (Canada) & Russell Kelly (Northern Ireland).

● Thistle's run of 14 League games without defeat vs. Falkirk (2011-2021, a H2H record) comes to an end.

● Thistle's run of 6 away League games without defeat vs. Falkirk (2012-2020, a joint H2H record) comes to an end.

● Falkirk continue on their incredible club-record run of 41 league games without defeat (April 2023 to date), the third longest unbeaten run in Scottish League history, according to the SPFL's website.

● For the first time since 2019, Thistle fail to win any of their first three league games.

ongoing sequences:

● 39 consecutive competitive appearances for Aidan Fitzpatrick, 4th Nov 2023 to date. (Longest run since: Lewis Neilson - 39 games, 15th Sep 2023 to 17th May 2024. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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