A goal deep in injury time rescues a point Thistle who were lucky not to be trailing by more than 2-0 at the interval. 

Cradle crosses and Graham heads down for Tiffoney to knock the ball home. Have Thistle rescued a point? 

Long in the home goal collects. This game is all but over. 

Docherty gives away a free kick on the halfway line. 

The ball is in the hands of the East Fife keeper. 

And that was the chance for an equaliser. Cardle crosses and finds Rudden unmarked and he shots straight at Long. 

It's a poor free kick from Cardle but Thistle pick up the ball again and a Rudden shot is blocked for a corner. 

Thistle have a free kick wide on the right. 

Cardle's corner is cleared. 

Graham tries to flick on a long throw from McKenna. 

Penrice crosses deep where a McKenna shot is blocked. 

Long makes a good block at the feet of Tiffoney and picks up a knock in the process but is okay to continue. 

It's a good corner from Cardle delivered into a good area but is well defended. 

Graham again has space inside the box but this time his header from a McKenna cross is wide of goal. 

Lifeline for Thistle. Cardle crosses from the right and Graham places his header beyond Long and into the net. 

A Bannigan shot drifts wide of goal. 

Rudden has a great chance right in front of goal but doesn't make clean contact with the ball allowing the keeper to save. 

Spence takes advantage of a slip from Bell but Sneddon saves with his feet. 

The home side successfully defend a string of Thistle corners. 

Wallace is too strong for Brownlie out wide but Sneddon collects his cross at his front post. 

Graham can't divert his header from a McKenna cross away from Long who makes an easy save. 

A Wallace shot is thankfully straight at Sneddon. 

Thistle desperately need an early second half goal and Tiffoney tries to hit target with a shot from outside the box but his shot is too high. 

A dreadfully poor defensive display from Thistle has left them trailing 2-0 at the break and lucky not be further behind. It leaves Thistle's promotion prospects hanging by a thread. 

Graham's knock down nearly falls into the path of Gordon.

Smith flicks the ball goalwards but it is straight at Sneddon who makes an easy save. 

East Fife miss what can only be described as a sitter to go 3-0 up. The ball is laid on a plate for Denholm but with virtually an open goal to aim at he sends the ball over the bar. 

Bannigan floats the free kick into the box. Tiffoney is on the end of it but his header strikes the crossbar. 

Graham is fouled and Thistle have a free kick about 5 yards outside the box, right of centre. 

Graham is screaming for a goal after his close range header is clawed away from goal by East Fife keeper Long. 

Another excellent chance for East Fife. Murdoch crosses from the right and Denholm has a free header that he sends wide. 

Only an excellent one handed save from Sneddon prevents Wallace finding a third goal for East Fife. 

Swanson tries his luck from distance but his shot dips just a shade too late and clears the Thistle crossbar. 

It's a nightmare start for Thistle. The ball sits up nicely for Smith and he smashes a shot past Sneddon. Thistle with it all to do now. 

Thistle are close to an equaliser. Tiffoney crosses from the right that finds Gordon at the back post but his downward header bounces over the bar. 

Sneddon goes the right way but Wallace's penalty finds the bottom left hand corner. 

Thistle are caught out by a quickly taken Murdoch free kick from near the halfway line and when a shot comes in it strikes the hand of Niang. 

Tiffoney takes the corner but it is cleared at the front post. 

Good take from Sneddon at the edge of his 6 yard box as a vicious cross comes in from the East Fife right hand side. 

Both Tiffoney and Murray see shots blocked as the game starts to really open up. 

It's East Fife's turn to threaten a goal and just for a second it looks as if McKinnon's shot has found the back of the net but thankfully for Thistle it's actually the side netting that he hits. 

First chance of the game comes Thistle's way. Graham knocks the ball through for Tiffoney. His shot is blocked but spins into the path of Foster who sends his effort well wide. 

Break in play after Bannigan picks up a knock but he's back on his feet and we're underway again. 

Thistle wearing their change black kit get the game under way. 

After the disappointment of defeat at Dundee United in the Scottish Cup on Saturday attention returns in full to the search for league points which tonight takes Thistle east to face East Fife on a cold, cold night. 

Ian McCall makes three changes to the side that started in Dundee on Saturday. 

With injury denying him the services of Kieran Wright, Jamie Sneddon comes in to keep goal and there are also starts for Ryan Williamson and Connor Murray.