27th Dec 2025 Queen's Park 2 Partick Thistle 2 (SPFL Championship - game 20)

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	Sean Crighton	Mark Wilson	41y, 6m, 22d

		Ben Stanway; Alex Samuel
		Kyle Turner; Tony Watt

‎Seb Drozd (2-1, 29 mins); Euan Murray (2-2, 82 mins)		Ben Stanway (1-0, 12 mins); Euan Murray (2-0, og 16 mins)
none (2-1, 29 mins); Louis Longridge (2-2, 82 mins)		none (1-0, 12 mins); Aidan Fitzpatrick (2-0, og 16 mins)
Seb Drozd; Louis Longridge; Josh Fowler		Oisin Smyth
		Oisin Smyth (@ 2-1, 41‎ mins)
Ricky Waugh (Timam Scott, 70 mins); Aidan Connolly (Liam McLeish, 85 mins)		Aidan Fitzpatrick (Scott Martin, HT); Tsoanelo Letsosa (Luke McBeth, 74 mins); Logan Chalmers (Tony Watt, 74 mins)

	Calum Ferrie	Josh Clarke	21y, 4m, 29d
	Carlo Pignatiello	Ben McPherson	21y, 9m, 8d
	Henry Fieldson	Paddy Reading	26y, 6m, 28d
	Euan Murray	Daniel O'Reilly	30y, 8m, 16d
	Matthew Shiels	Lee Ashcroft	32y, 3m, 28d
	Ricky Waugh	Oisin Smyth	25y, 7m, 22d
	Louis Longridge	Ben Stanway	21y, 3m, 7d
	Aidan Connolly	Tsoanelo Letsosa	21y, 6m, 21d
	Josh Fowler	Alex Samuel	30y, 3m, 7d
	Grant Savoury	Logan Chalmers	25y, 9m, 3d
	Seb Drozd	Aidan Fitzpatrick	24y, 9m, 7d

			25y, 7m, 22d

	Milosz Sliwinski	Lewis Budinauckas	23y, 6m, 8d
	Darryl Carrick	Cammy Logan	23y, 10m, 29d
	former Jag Aiden McGinlay	Scott Martin	28y, 8m, 26d
	Timam Scott	Kyle Turner	28y, 1m, 17d
	Ross McLean	Steven Lawless	34y, 8m, 15d
	Josiah Sowa	Luke McBeth	26y, 3m, 18d
	Rocco Friel	Sean McArdle	18y, 4m, 0d
	Liam McLeish	Tony Watt	31y, 11m, 28d
		Liam Dolan	16y, 8m, 0d

notes

Both sides generally in playing order.
Queen's Park filled 8 of their 9 allocated bench slots.
The 'network' missed two yellow cards (Louis Longridge & Josh Fowler) in the closing stages of the game.

TTA report

Thistle went 2-up inside 16 mins (Stanway close in then an og finishing off a delightful passing move). Clarke's pen was parried and the ball was knocked in (29). Smyth's 2nd yellow (40) meant stout defending and an unchallenged header from a ball into the box made it 2-2 (82). The10 men finished the stronger and were unlucky towards the end.

TTA man of the match

BEN STANWAY got stuck in as he always does, but also played with a lot of poise today, reading the play brilliantly. Covers so much ground he seems omnipresent. Exquisite technique for his opener and was the beating heart of the sweeping team move that led to a superb second. A real 5 star performance.

Media report

Robbie McNair, 27-Dec-2025, qpfc.co.uk

QUEEN’S PARK ended 2025 by finally taking a point from a Glasgow derby with Partick Thistle in an action-packed 2-2 draw. Sean Crighton’s Spiders battled back from two goals down to take a point from the Jags for the first time in more than 18 months. Oisin Smyth was sent off for the visitors in the first half, but by that stage they led through Ben Stanway and a Euan Murray own goal. The captain stepped up later though and scored the equaliser after Seb Drozd had pulled one back for the home side, netting the rebound from Josh Fowler’s saved penalty. It was a fast-paced derby from the start, and Drozd had a brilliant chance inside five minutes but he put the ball over the bar. Thistle probed and asked questions of the Spiders, but they defended well until a momentary lapse let Stanway net after 14 minutes.

The visitors doubled their lead through Murray’s wicked deflection from an Aidan Fitzpatrick cross to make it 2-0 inside the opening 15 minutes. In the past the Spiders have conceded six in the previous two games however they landed a goal of their own before half-time. It was just reward after a sustained period of pressure from Queen’s Park, the referee pointed to the spot for handball denying Aidan Connolly from a Grant Savoury corner. Top scorer Josh Fowler stepped up but was denied by Josh Clarke, but after he brought the rebound down Seb Drozd followed it in to cut the lead back down to one. Queen’s continued to fight back and Connolly put it inches wide with the score still 2-1. Just moments later Thistle saw red with Oisin Smyth receiving a second yellow card for an off the ball incident that left Matthew Shiels on the ground. The Spiders tried to capitalise but Henry Fieldson put the ball narrowly wide from a third goal in three weeks.

The sides went into half-time with Queen’s Park trailing but hopeful against 10-man Thistle in the second half after growing into the second half. Partick Thistle forced Calum Ferrie into action early on with a long-range strike into the bottom corner that the Spiders No1 took safely but from then on, the home side camped into the attacking half. Drozd was close to a second with a brilliant chance from a cross into the box which he took down with his chest before spinning and shooting low but the strike was blocked. Still Queen’s Park probed, refusing to give up with Aidan Connolly striking a beautiful shot towards the top corner but it was agonisingly tipped onto the bar by Thistle’s goalkeeper. The Spiders’ efforts didn’t go unrewarded though as Euan Murray leapt higher than anyone else to see his bullet header hit the back of the net from a fantastic Louis Longridge delivery to overturn the two-goal deficit in the 81st minute and cancel out the two first-half concessions.

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Partick Thistle manager Mark Wilson (speaking to the media c/o 'The Thistle'

I think it was some of the best stuff that we’ve played this season. Slick, loads of bravery, loads of entries into the box, and then you get a decision like that that just kind of turns the game. We decided to make a change at half-time and keep two up top. I always think it’s important to keep two up top – and, by the way, we actually were doing fine, and we created one or two opportunities. But looking at ourselves, we’ve got to defend that cross [for the second goal] better. You put the bigger guys on to go and defend your box because it’s naturally going to come into your box more, and unfortunately we leave the middle bare and the guy heads in. So, hugely disappointing. But I don’t want to sound like it’s sour grapes. Everybody’s seen what happened and how the game changed, the flow of the game changed. We were brave enough and patient enough just to wait our time, and even Scotty Martin has a good strike at the start of the second half. We were piling the pressure on at one time we were maybe going to nick something. Tony had a good opportunity. It’s a fantastic block, you’ve got to say. So I’m really pleased at the players for that. I think they carried out the game plan fine. Of course, both boxes is where it counts, and I thought we defended for most of the game pretty well. We maybe just switch off for that moment or leave too big a gap. Their guy gets in and nicks it and gets them a point. It’s been a tough month. We’ve been on the road an awful lot. I know it’s another game without a win, where we’ve been used to winning this season. But it’s another game where we’ve not lost on the road. Once I sit down and reflect on it, I’ll obviously take a lot of positives of how we played, but obviously those decisions just sit with you more than the performance does.

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