19th Oct 2024 Partick Thistle 2 Airdrieonians 1 (SPFL Championship - game 10)

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37y, 10m, 8d	Kris Doolan	Rhys McCabe

Stuart Bannigan; Logan Chalmers
Luke McBeth; Robbie Crawford

Brian Graham (1-0, 5 mins); Brian Graham (2-1, 72 mins)		Adam Frizzell (1-1, 39 mins)
Logan Chalmers (1-0, 5 mins); Harry Milne (2-1, 72 mins)		Lewis McGrattan (1-1, 39 mins)
Scott Robinson; Aaron Muirhead
		Lewis McGrattan (@ 0-0, 51 mins)
Lee Ashcroft (Aaron Muirhead, 59 mins); Kyle Turner (Robbie Crawford, 70 mins); Logan Chalmers (Liam Smith, 70 mins); Scott Robinson (Luke McBeth, 78 mins)		Chris Mochrie (Lewis McGregor, 56 mins); Ben Wilson (Cammy Cooper, 73 mins); Rhys Armstrong (Terrell Agyemang, 85 mins)

22y, 10m, 10d	Myles Roberts	Murray Johnson
20y, 7m, 14d	Kanayo Megwa	Murray Aiken
27y, 11m, 20d	Harry Milne	Luke Bradley-Morgan
29y, 6m, 8d	Daniel O'Reilly	Craig Watson
31y, 1m, 20d	Lee Ashcroft	Sam Graham
32y, 1m, 2d	Stuart Bannigan	Gavin Gallagher
26y, 11m, 9d	Kyle Turner	Rhys Armstrong
24y, 6m, 25d	Logan Chalmers	Lewis McGrattan
36y, 10m, 26d	Brian Graham	Ben Wilson
32y, 7m, 8d	Scott Robinson	Chris Mochrie
23y, 6m, 29d	Aidan Fitzpatrick	Adam Frizzell

28y, 0m, 27d

21y, 7m, 14d	Mason McCready	Kieran Wright
20y, 10m, 23d	Casper Nilsson	Dylan MacDonald
34y, 1m, 19d	Aaron Muirhead	Lewis McGregor
30y, 3m, 27d	Robbie Crawford	Cameron Bruce
20y, 11m, 21d	Liam Smith	Cammy Cooper
25y, 1m, 10d	Luke McBeth	Aaron Taylor-Sinclair former Jag
20y, 6m, 20d	Charlie Sayers	Terrell Agyemang
20y, 0m, 29d	Ben Stanway
19y, 5m, 12d	Ricco Diack

notes

Both sides generally in playing order.
Airdrie filled only 7 of their 9 allocated bench slots.
Scheduled 3pm kick-off delayed by 41 minutes as a replacement (David Burns) was sought for an assistant referee (Drew Kirkland) who got injured in the warm-up.
The 'network' lists no assist for Thistle's first, which was a clear case in Logan Chalmers.

TTA report

Graham scored from 6 yards (5). Chalmers lobbed the keeper but hit the bar. Lost possession clearing an attack led to a well taken equaliser (39). Megwa hit the bar on h-t. There was a red card for a bad tackle on Turner (51) and Graham finished off Milne's driven cross (72). Airdrie enjoyed some late possession but seldom troubled Roberts.

TTA man of the match

It was a better Thistle performance in terms of keeping possession and building worthwhile moves down both flanks and the alert STUART BANNIGAN's controlling influence was pivotal.

Media report

Paul Thomson, 19-Oct-2024, Daily Record

Ten-man Airdrie slipped to a fourth defeat in their last five Championship games, as Brian Graham's double picked up the points for Partick. In a game that suffered a 40-minute delay when one of the officials got injured in the warm-up and a replacement had to be found, injury-ravaged Diamonds were second best and they are still looking to haul themselves out a dismal run that has seen them pick up just one win in their last 11 games, and left them bottom of the league. Adam Frizzell had cancelled out Graham's fifth minute opener just before half-time to give the Diamonds hoping of ending their winless streak. But they played most of the second half with 10 men after Lewis McGrattan's straight red card for a late tackle on Kyle Turner. And that eventually cost them when Graham turned home Harry Milne's driven cross in 72 minutes to bag his sixth goal in his last four meetings against Airdrie. Rhys McCabe's men stay bottom but are now a point adrift of ninth-place Dunfermline.

Depleted Airdrie made three changes from last week’s SPFL Trust Trophy exit to East Kilbride. Murray Johnson, Lewis McGrattan and Chris Mochrie came in for Kieran Wright, Dylan MacDonald and Cammy Bruce. Ex-Airdrie loanee Kanayo Megwa started for the Jags. Kick-off was delayed by 40 minutes as the clubs clambered for an official. An announcement even went out around Firhill asking if a grade five referee was in the stadium, but one was eventually sourced and it was game on. However, just five minutes in Airdrie might have wished it wasn't, as Partick took an early lead. Logan Chalmers cut inside and tried to curl a strike towards goal. It took a fortunate defelection into the path of Graham at the back post and the Jags skipper kept his cool to drive a first-time strike into the bottom corner beyond Murray Johnson. It was Graham's fifth goal against the Diamonds in their last four meetings In 22 minutes Partick should have doubled their lead. A slip by Murray Aiken, who was the last defender, as he tried to clear a ball over the top allowed to Chalmers run in one-on-one with the keeper. But Airdrie got a huge let-off as he opted for a spectacular chip over Murray Johnson from the edge of the box, instead of a simple finish, and his effort hit the top of the crossbar. The Diamonds were barely getting a look in but they pulled level in fine fashion seven minutes before half-time. Frizzell picked the ball up on the edge of the box and some neat-interplay with Lewis McGrattan saw him take the return pass and rifle the ball into the bottom corner for 1-1.

Fifty seconds into the second half, the woodwork came to Airdrie's rescue. Sam Graham's clearance fell straight to Megwa and his rasping drive smacked the post. Moments later, Graham poked an effort agonisingly wide of the target when staring down Diamonds keeper Johnson, as the Jags looked to catch their visitors cold again. Airdrie's task did get much harder in 51 minutes though when McGrattan saw red. The midfielder slid into a late tackle on Kyle Turner in the middle of the park. It was right under the nose of referee Iain Snedden and the whistler showed no hesitation in sending him for an early bath. Partick had the ball in 62 minutes when Aidan Fitzpatrick's cross was headed home by Graham at the near post, but he was flagged for offside. Sam Graham's goalline block and a superb follow-up save from Johnson then denied Thistle in the box, as Megwa's volley was kept out and Graham's close-range strike was turned away in a goalmoth scramble that Airdrie somehow survived. But the pressure finally told in 72 minutes when Harry Milne burst downthe left and his driven cross was poked home at the back post by Graham, netting his seventh goal of the season. It would have been a heavier defeat if not for Johnson producing a top save down to his left to turn away Fitzpatrick's curling effort.

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Partick Thistle manager Kris Doolan (speaking to Jagzone):

We were bright, especially in the first half. We asked for a big start, we wanted to make them be the ones running back and to keep them back, to combine, and make quick passes, and to always have someone available, to support the ball. I thought in the first half we had lots of that, 2 v 1s down the sides and runners into the box. At the same time we were strong defensively and didn't allow them to create too much against us, whereas today we looked a lot more creative. Even in the second half we hit the post, Brian had one saved, one dinked over, we had all sorts of chances in there, which is great to see, because that's where we've been lacking.

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