Saturday 1st March, 2014 at 2:44pm
The Thistle squad head up to the Highland this afternoon as they prepare for tomorrow’s very important fixture against RossCounty. After facing Motherwell and Aberdeen, two teams pushing hard for second place, in our last two games tomorrow’s fixture sees us come against a side in our own half of the league table and as manager Alan Archibald admitted that gives the game a little extra significance.
“There’s a little extra spice to the fixture with it being so tight at our end of the league table. It’s an important game with a lot at stake especially with St Mirren and Kilmarnock playing each other as well; something will have to give their. We’re going into the game though on the back of a good result against Aberdeen and we will be looking for a similar performance tomorrow.”
Alan went on;
“We know we are in for a really difficult game tomorrow. County are in good form at the moment. I saw their derby game with Inverness during the week and despite the scoreline I thought that they did okay. To be honest it was just an excellent performance from Inverness on the night. It’s not that long since we played County but they’ve made some changes in personnel even since then. We’ve done the same and I think you could see the benefit of that last week against Aberdeen. The new boys are really starting to settle in and make a contribution.”
Thistle head north with no new injury worries; said the Thistle manager.
“Isaac Osbourne, Sean Welsh and Aaron Muirhead are our only injured players at present.”
Partick Thistle Stats
Current Form – Last Five Games
W D L F A
1 2 2 7 7
Scorers Season 2013-2014
Kris Doolan 7
Steven Lawless 5
Lyle Taylor 5
Kallum Higginbotham 4
Aaron Muirhead 4
Conrad Balatoni 2
Christie Elliott 2
Chris Erskine 1
Ross Forbes 1
Gary Fraser 1
Stephen O’Donnell 1
Aaron Taylor-Sinclair 1
Last Game
Scottish Premiership
Saturday February 22nd 2014
Partick Thistle 3, Aberdeen 1
Ross County Stats
Current Form – Last Five Games
W D L F A
1 1 3 6 10
Scorers Season 2013-2014
Richard Brittain 5
Melvin De Leeuw 5
Filip Kiss 4
Yoann Arquin 3
Graham Carey 3
Stuart Kettlewell 2
Rocco Quinn 2
Yann Songo’o 2
Ivan Sproule 2
Scott Boyd 1
Alex Cooper 1
Ben Gordon 1
Darren Maatsen 1
Orhan Mustafi 1
Steve Saunders 1
Last Game
Scottish Premiership
Tuesday February 25th 2014
RossCounty 0, Inverness Caledonian Thistle 3
Last Meeting
Scottish Premiership
Saturday January 11th 2014
Partick Thistle 3, Ross County 3
Teams
Thistle: Fox, O’Donnell, Taylor-Sinclair, Muirhead, Balatoni, Craigen, Lawless (Doolan), Piccolo, Elliott (Forbes), Taylor, Higginbotham.
County: Fraser, Gordon, Boyd, Kiss, (Quinn) Brittain, Tidser (Cooper), Glen (Kettlewell), McLean, Carey, Slew, Oikonomou.
Scorers
Thistle: Taylor (28, 38), Lawless (47)
County: Kiss (22, 76), Gordon (50)
Crowd: 3,539
Match Details
Scottish Premiership
Saturday March 1st 2014
RossCounty v Partick Thistle
Kick-off: 3:00pm
Admission Details
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Match Officials
Referee: Craig Thomson
Assistant Referees: Calvin Harris and Alastair Mather
Fourth Official: Bobby Madden
Other Premiership Fixtures
Aberdeen v St Johnstone
Celtic v Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Hibs v Dundee United (Friday)
Motherwell v Hearts
St Mirren v Kilmarnock
