Sun 14 May, 2023
SWPL 1 
Petershill ParkDavidson (41), Chinchilla (86)
McGowan (60)
SWPL 1
Sun 14 May, 2023. Kick Off: - 16:10
Petershill Park
🎫 Tickets
Tickets for this fixture can be purchased in advance from Glasgow City. They can be purchased online HERE
Adults: £8
O65s: £6
U16: £2
PLEASE NOTE: This is a Partick Thistle away game. Season Tickets are not valid.
🚗 Getting There
Bus:
Firstbus services 10, 24, 27, 88, 89, 89A, 89B and 90 all stop on Springburn Road, a stones throw from Petershill Park.
Train
Springburn and Barnhill are the nearest train stations, both just a 5 minute walk from the stadium. Both are serviced from Glasgow Queen Street Low Level by regular trains.
Car
Plenty of free car parking is available at Petershill Park. The post code for Petershill Park is G21 4DD and the complex can be accessed from Adamswell Street, at the rear of North Glasgow College.
🅿️ Parking
There is parking available for free at Petershill Park. Spectators should use the lower two levels of parking at the stadium.
🌮 Food and 🥤 Drink
The pie stall at Petershill Park will be open before kick off selling a variaty of food and drink. Payment is by cash only.
📺 Live Stream
As this is an away Fixture there will be no PTWFC live steam of this match.
The Match is Live on BBC ALBA
💻 Live Coverage
Live updates will be available on our Twitter account during the match.
🗣️ Post -Match
After the match we’ll have all the reaction from the Thistle camp on our Twitter and Facebook pages with Full match highlights and interviews on our YouTube Channel.
We’ll also have a full match photo gallery available after the game.
This Sunday 14th May, PTWFC take on Glasgow City at Petershill Park for a 16:00 kick off.
Thistle come off the back of a 3-0 defeat against Rangers in a tough defeat for the Jags. A great defensive showing from the Jags preventing a much heavier scoreline, the focus now immediately shifts onto our “away” game against Glasgow City on Sunday.
A result here for Brian Graham’s side would be massive as we face a Glasgow City side that need to win as they look to secure the SWPL1 title heading into the final day of the season.
📍Petershill Park
🕐Sun 14th May, 4:10pm
🎟️Adults: £8 / o65’s: £6 / u16’s: £2
🎫 Buy Tickets HERE
📺 BBC ALBA
💻Updates on Twitter
💻️Highlights and reaction post match
Glasgow City have had a great season, picking up 77 points so far in the league from a possible 90. Sitting at the top of the league, Leanne Ross’ side will be looking to secure all three points and keep the top spot with Celtic and Rangers tight on their trail, and both playing earlier than them in the day. Speaking of Celtic, the green and white side of Glasgow beat City 3-1 on Thursday evening in a historic game with the highest ever crowd registered in the SWPL taking the gap between the sides to just 2 points.
The last meeting between the squads ended in a 2-0 defeat at Petershill Park in a tightly contested game with goals coming from Beatriz Prades Insa and league top scorer Lauren Davidson. Thistle put on a great showing that afternoon and will look to use the positives from the last encounter as we head into this game on Sunday.
Thistle made the trip to Broadwood Stadium on Wednesday night with a once again depleted squad.
Having several stars out such as Linzi Taylor and Rachel Donaldson with Injury and Megan Cunningham through ineligibility, it forced Brian Graham to work with the tools at hand against a very physical presence in the form of Malky Thomson’s Rangers side.
Keeping Rangers at bay for most of the first half, Thistle would eventually go down just on the brink of that first half as Lizzy Arnot headed the Gers into the lead. An injury to Kim Murphy forced a substitution at the break allowing a returning Jordan McLintock into an unfamiliar centre half role in a back three however she adjusted and performed well. Kirsty Howat would double the lead before a rather soft penalty was given in favour of the home side to leave the final score at 3-0.
Brian Graham touched in his post match interview about how proud he once again was at his girls for putting up a fight against Rangers with the girls playing their 3rd game in a week at this point and how hard it must be taking its toll on them considering all of the teams in the top six are professional or a hybrid form while we remain part time. That, tied in with the sheer size of Broadwood compared to the likes of Petershill Park, meant it was always going to be a tough battle but we dug in and gave it our all from start to finish.
Strong followings from the Red and Yellow Army so far this season have really helped our girls. Your support has played a massive part helping the Jags and we hope to see as many of you as possible against Glasgow City “away” on Sunday afternoon in this Glasgow derby.
Linzi Taylor and Cara Henderson both miss out through suspension for the one with the pair having accumulated too many yellow cards throughout the season.
On a more positive note, manager Brian Graham hopes to welcome Clare Adams back to the squad with the midfielder having missed the last couple of games with a knock.
Megan Cunningham will be available again after missing out being unable to play against her parent club on Wednesday night.
It’ll be up to the management squad to decide the strongest squad available as we approach our 4th game in just 12 days in the Parks Motor Group SWPL.
30th April 2023
PARTICK THISTLE 0
GLASGOW CITY 2
PRADES INSA (45+), DAVIDSON (58)
After coming within just a matter of seconds from taking a point from title chasing Celtic seven days earlier, there was further heartbreak for Thistle when they went down to another late winner. This time the winning goal arrived a little earlier with just 4 minutes remaining but that hardly dented the sense of disappointment at the finish.
Although still somewhat depleted Thistle manager Brian Graham was able to welcome back into his starting eleven Megan Cunningham and Rachel Donaldson, while there were places on the bench for Claire Adams and Taylor McGlashan. On the debit side though both Cara Henderson and Linzi Taylor missed this game through suspension.
It was Thistle, the away side in this Petershill Park ‘derby’, that were the first to show an attacking intent. After good work from Imogen Longcake down the right hand side, Abbie Ferguson saw her shot blocked before Rebecca McGowan sent an effort from the edge of the box over the City crossbar.
After that encouraging start from Thistle it was the current league leaders that started to dominate, at least in terms of possession. Thistle though were defending well and restricting any shooting opportunities to largely long range with Cunningham making a couple of fairly routine saves to deny Davidson and one excellent stop to deny Chinchilla.
While the possession stats would certainly have been in City’s favour this was anything but one way traffic with Thistle a real and potent threat when coming forward.
Amy Bulloch’s excellent cross field pass found Donaldson in a threatening position but after getting the ball on to her right foot at the edge of the box she couldn’t get either the pace or curl on her shot to get it past Clachers in the City goal.
A Bulloch corner was flicked on by Jordan McLintock as Thistle grew in confidence and a Leah Robinson free kick, after Donaldson had been crudely fouled, looked destined for the top left corner only for the City keeper the pluck the ball to safety.
At the other end Robinson was close to slicing a Davidson cross into her own net and another Davidson cross just needed a City touch to bring a goal as the title chasers pushed for an opener before half-time.
There were just 4 minutes remaining of the first half when they did take the lead. There was more than a hint of controversy surrounding it with Ferguson looking to be fouled in the build-up before Davidson’s shot beat Cunningham in the Thistle goal.
Despite a narrow first half deficit, and a flurry of activity near the Thistle goal at the start of the second, Thistle remained very much in this game a fact underlined by a chance that came the way of Donaldson after the pace of Longcake down the right helped create the opening. Sadly on this occasion Donaldson sent her shot over the crossbar.
Thistle weren’t to be denied, and on the hour mark they were back on level terms and it was no less than they deserved.
City were never able to effectively clear a Bulloch corner and when they ball was worked back to Bulloch her inch perfect cross was volleyed home at the back post by McGowan.
Thistle were nearly level for no more than a matter of seconds with City’s response seeing Motlhalo strike the bar when she should probably have scored and Chinchilla sending the rebound high into the sky and over the crossbar.
As time wore on there was plenty of pressure on the Thistle goal but no real clear cut chances. Cunningham was well placed to save a Kozak header and Davidson saw an effort deflected just wide but in general Thistle defended well and looked well on course to all but end City’s title hopes.
It was heartbreak again then when City did hit a winner with just four minutes remaining. Chinchilla curling a shot out of the reach of Cunningham and into the net.
There was time left for Donaldson to flash a shot narrowly wide but there would be no Thistle equaliser.
