cinch Championship
Fri 23 February, 2024. Kick Off: - 19:45
Wyre Stadium at Firhill, Glasgow
Match Information:
Ticketing Information:
All supporters are strongly encouraged to pre-purchase their tickets ahead of matchday to avoid lengthy Firhill queues.
Ticket prices for this match are priced at:
Adults – £22
Concessions (Over 65s, students, disabled supporter including carer, 16-18 year olds) £16
Under 16 – £6
Purchasing before matchday
Ticket purchases before matchday are available to buy through one of the methods below:
Matchday purchases
Tickets can be purchased on matchday through online sale. The Executive Offices will be open between 10am and 4pm.
Very limited provision will be made at the Jackie Husband ticket office for home supporters, without bank cards or online access, to use cash to purchase tickets for this game.
Partick Thistle Season Ticket Holders
This fixture is on the Partick Thistle 2023/24 season ticket. Use your season ticket card, or the PTFC ticketing app at the turnstile to gain entry to Firhill. Season tickets are only valid for the stand they were purchased for with no changing between stands on a game by game basis, currently permitted.
Away Supporters
Dunfermline Athletic supporters will be situated in the Colin Weir Stand for this fixture.
Away fans can purchase their ticket for this league game through one of the two methods below:
Away supporter ticket prices for this match are:
Adults – £22
Concessions (Over 65s, students, disabled supporter including carer, 16-18 year olds) £16
Under 16 – £6
Online ticket sales for Dunfermline Athletic fans will be available right up until kick-off.
There will be no provision available for physical in-person ticket sales for away supporters on matchday.
Some important calls go against Thistle, but it is a bitterly disappointing night for Thistle who rarely looked solid enough at the back.
The flag is up for offside against Thistle which seems somehow appropriate.
Minimum of 5 additional minutes.
Diack's cross is claimed at his front post by Mehmet.
Nearly four but Kane's shot finds the side netting.
Stewart gets the slightest of touches to a Jakubiak shot.
A Graham shot creeps just the wrong side of the post.
A crunching challenge on Robinson goes unpunished.
Fitzpatrick sends over a cross after he gets the ball back from McMillan after his corner is cleared. Nobody can get on the end of it. Thistle badly need a goal and one soon.
It's poor defending from Thistle but McCann can only lift a poor effort over the bar.
Crowd: 3,350.
Mehmet nearly spills a Milne cross but recovers in time.
Thistle fail to defend a set piece and Benjamin powers home a header.
Another one to look back at. Milne's shot is deflected home by Brian Graham. The goal is initially given and then following a conversation with referee and his assistant is disallowed for offside. TV pictures confirm that Graham is ONSIDE.
Controversial moment as the flag stays down and Todd is clear on goal and clips the ball home. TV pictures show that Todd is clearly onside.
Fitzpatrick fires in a cross that Dunfermline do well to clear.
Neilson heads the free kick clear, but it has been a poor start to the half from Thistle.
Dunfermline free kick deep inside the Thistle half.
Stewart claws the corner away from goal.
A header comes off the Thistle post with Muirhead scrambling clear before the ball can be touched home.
Half-time change for Thistle.
Thistle were the better side in the first half but the concession of yet another soft goal means they are tied at 1-1 at the break.
A minute of additional time to be played.
Fitzpatrick's free kick is cleared. He gets the ball back and this time his low cross is hacked clear.
Fitzpatrick is fouled on the left and Thistle will have a chance to get the ball in the box.
Stewart saves with his legs as Thistle come close to conceding another cheap goal.
The next goal is Dunfermline's though. Stewart saves a long range effort from Edwards but the ball falls into the path of Fagan-Walcott who tucks home with Thistle looking to the assistant for offside.
The ball just runs away from McInroy as he collects a pass from Lawless inside the Dunfermline box. Thistle pressing for a second goal.
A Fitzpatrick shot is blocked after a defensive error.
A deserved lead for Thistle. McBeth wins the ball in the air at the edge of the box after a Milne cross is cleared and Graham is all alone inside the 6 yard box to make it 17 for the season.
Lawless' corner is a shade too deep. Graham does well to get his head to it but it is cleared.
McInroy's net bound effort from a Fitzpatrick cut back is blocked by a defender.
Graham drops deep picking the ball up inside his own half. He finds McMillan to his right, McMillan gives him the ball back and from the edge of the box Graham forces a good stop from Mehmet.
Milne heads the ball towards goal where Graham tries to flick it home.
Stewart elects to try and punch clear. He doesn't get much on it and the ball is headed back towards goal where it is cleared off the line.
Stewart comes for but doesn't collect the free kick and the ball goes out for a corner.
Dunfermline free kick wide on the right.
A low ball drilled in by Fitzpatrick is clear at the edge of the 6 yard box. The move starting with a quick throw from Stewart to McMillan.
Lawless with the corner but the referee spots a push as the ball comes over and immediately blows for a Dunfermline free kick.
The ball is in the Dunfermline net but the flag goes up for offside against McMillan as he crosses for Graham to tap home.
McCann leans back when given room for a shot inside the box and the ball clears the bar.
McCann does go for goal and Stewart has to tip the shot round the post for a corner.
Dunfermline win a free kick deep inside the Thistle half. Probably a shade too far for a direct shot at a goal but a threatening position all the same.
There's a series of crosses into the Dunfermline box. The last of which from Milne is claimed by Mehmet in his 6 yard box.
Fast paced opening 5 minutes but no real hint of a chance at either end.
Dunfermline get the game underway. Thistle shooting towards the John Lambie Stand in the first half.
It's a Friday under the Firhill Floodlights as Thistle welcome Dunfermline to the Wyre Stadium at Firhill.
Kris Doolan's starting eleven shows two changes from the side that started at Inverness last Saturday. Coming in to make his debut in the Thistle goal is Ross Stewart while Jack McMillan has recovered from in jury and comes back into the team in his usual right back slot.