22nd Jul 2025 Partick Thistle 2 Queen of the South 0 (League Cup Group B - game 3)

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Match Information

41y, 1m, 17d			Mark Wilson		Peter Murphy
Tsoanelo Letsosa; Tony Watt
Ben Stanway; Steven Lawless
Aidan Fitzpatrick (1-0, 32 mins); Tsoanelo Letsosa (2-0, 34 mins)
none (1-0, 32 mins); Aidan Fitzpatrick (2-0, 34 mins)
Robbie Crawford; Zander MacKenzie					Jack Stott; Liam Smith
Tsoanelo Letsosa (Steven Lawless, 62 mins); Logan Chalmers (Ben Stanway, 62 mins); Robbie Crawford (Zander MacKenzie, 75 mins); Tony Watt (Thomas Horn, 75 mins)					Jack Stott (Ben Johnstone, 70 mins); Benjamin Luissint (Euan Ross, 87 mins)
23y, 1m, 3d			Lewis Budinauckas		Ross Stewart former Jag
23y, 5m, 24d			Cammy Logan		Michael Hewitt
26y, 1m, 23d			Paddy Reading		Taylor Charters
30y, 3m, 11d			Daniel O'Reilly		Reece Lyon
31y, 10m, 23d			Lee Ashcroft		Matty Douglas
25y, 10m, 13d			Luke McBeth		Jack Hannah
31y, 1m, 0d			Robbie Crawford		Liam Smith former Jag
21y, 1m, 16d			Tsoanelo Letsosa		Benjamin Luissint
31y, 6m, 23d			Tony Watt		Jack Stott
25y, 3m, 28d			Logan Chalmers		Kai Kennedy
24y, 4m, 2d			Aidan Fitzpatrick		Kurtis Guthrie
26y, 8m, 28d
18y, 3m, 12d			Luis Cameron		Mark Thomson
34y, 3m, 10d			Steven Lawless		Ben Johnstone
19y, 10m, 24d			Zander MacKenzie		Niall Rogerson
20y, 10m, 2d			Ben Stanway		Euan Ross
18y, 6m, 11d			Thomas Horn		Harry McLinden
18y, 4m, 29d			Matthew Falconer		Matt Hall
16y, 2m, 25d			Liam Dolan		Trent Chapman
					Cole Burke

notes

Both sides generally in playing order. Thistle filled only 7 of their 9 allocated bench slots, whilst Stranraer filled 8 of theirs.

Match Report

TTA report

Four or five-nil at h-t would not have flattered Thistle. QOS' keeper has several excellent saves, Chalmers hit the post, several shots were cleared off the line. Fitzpatrick scored with a free-kick (32) and 2 mins later, having rounded the keeper, he unselfishly set up Lets'osa for a debut 3-yarder (34). Queen's had more of the ball after h-t but seldom involved Budinaukas. Sterner tests ahead.

TTA man of the match

Thistle looked fit and hungry, none more so than AIDAN FITZPATRICK who was was licensed to thrill and a menace on both flanks. The selfless assist sealed the award.

Media report

David Forrest, 23-Jul-2025, ptfc.co.uk

Partick Thistle maintained their undefeated run in the 25/26 Premier Sports Cup on Tuesday with a 2-0 win over Queen of the South on Tuesday. Thistle came into the game at The Wyre Stadium at Firhill top of Group B on maximum points, having defeated Edinburgh City and Stranraer, while QoS had also bested City before losing narrowly to Ross County at the weekend. There were two changes to the side that beat Stranraer a week ago. Tony Watt made his first start as a Thistle player while Ts’oanelo Lets’osa made his Jags debut after receiving his international clearance, with Stevie Lawless and Ben Stanway dropping to the bench.

It was a breathless start to proceedings, with Tony Watt going a shade wide with an effort just seconds after the opening whistle. With three minutes on the clock, Thistle came close again. Fitzpatrick’s shot was kicked away from the goal line, with no one getting on the end of it to turn it in. Debutant Lets’osa tried to bundle the ball into the net, but instead hit the side netting. The assault on the Dumfries goal continued as Watt, Chalmers and Fitzpatrick in particular playing some lovely football in the early going. Former Jags keeper Ross Stewart was playing out of his skin to keep the Doonhamers from going 1-0 down, most notably making two last ditch saves to stop Watt from opening the scoring from close-range on 15 minutes. The striker stretching in vain to flick in a volley that Stewart stuck out a hand to save before being denied after springing to his feet to try again. Thistle continued to pile forward with chance after chance to no avail as Logan Chalmers somehow rattled the post after beating Stewart. Mark Wilson’s side finally made the breakthrough on 31 minutes as Aidan Fitzpatrick fired a free kick from the edge of the box through the wall and into the net, much to the relief of the fans at Firhill. With the seal broken, Thistle then doubled their lead two minutes later. A defensive error allowed Fitzpatrick to race through on goal, before rounding Stewart. With a defender scrambling back to stop the ball from going in, Fitzpatrick then took the selfless option, passing across to Lets’osa to fire in from six yards and join the goalscoring debutant club. The Jags went down the tunnel 2-0 up, but would have been frustrated not to be leading by more. If it wasn’t for the heroics of Stewart, Thistle could’ve been 5 or 6 to the good at half time.

It looked like the Jags might increase their lead on 49 minutes after Chalmers left visiting defender Taylor Charters in his wake and launched a cross goalwards. Fitzpatrick did his best to try and get himself onto the ball, but was unable to smash it home as it flashed away from danger. Lewis Budinauckas was roused into action on 64 minutes, forced into his first save of the game. A Reece Lyon shot from the outside of the box barely threatened the order of play, as Budinauckas mopped it up with ease. From there, the game petered out as Queen of the South struggled to trouble the Thistle box. Despite the Jags’ best efforts, Ross Stewart managed to keep the score down, as Thistle ran out 2-0 winners.

Reaction

Partick Thistle manager Mark Wilson (speaking to Jagzone):

Really pleased overall, and the first half in particular. It's pleasing when you give the players a game plan and they carry it out to that level. The fans that came along to our open day on Sunday would have seen some of the ideas from our training session in terms of our pressing at the top end of the pitch and we you get real success from that it's really pleasing as a coach. Our energy levels were right up there and I thought that's the best we've seen, we really need to replicate that game after game. It's hard to keep up that intensity level for the full 90 minutes and that's maybe why we came off it a wee bit in the second period, but in the first half it really could have been anything. It was a joy to watch, bravery going forward, our wide guys staying high and wide and really being positive when they got the ball.

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Stats Watch

MR. T MAKES HIS MARK

● 21-year-old Tsoanelo Letsosa makes his Thistle debut.

● Tsoanelo Letsosa becomes the first Mosotho to play for Thistle.

● Lesotho becomes the 45th country/territory/territory to birth a Jag.

● Tsoanelo Letsosa becomes the first Mosotho to score for Thistle.

● Lesotho becomes the 25th country to be represented in the Thistle goal-scoring charts.

● In 'competitive action' Thistle play a 9th consecutive non-Saturday match, 25th April to date. The previous club-record (7) was set in June 2023.

ongoing sequences:

● 40 consecutive competitive appearances for Robbie Crawford, 14th Sep 2024 to date. (Longest run since: Kyle Turner - 44 games, 13th Jul 2024 to 9th May 2025. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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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