Saturday 12th July, 2025 at 1:57am
Partick Thistle kicked off their 2025/26 season with a 4-1 victory over Edinburgh City in the opening game of our Premier Sports Cup Group campaign.
Goals from Cammy Logan, Robbie Crawford and Logan Chalmers along with an own goal from Robbie Mahon saw Thistle put the game out of sight before half time in the Group B clash.
With recent signing Tony Watt on the bench, Logan Chalmers was deployed in a more forward role as Stevie Lawless and Aidan Fitzpatrick supported him on the wings while Paddy Reading and Cammy Logan both made their first competitive Jags starts.
It was an energetic start in scorching conditions as the opening moments saw Edinburgh City on the attack, with Dan O’Reilly forced into a block to keep the scoreline goalless.
It would only take four minutes for Thistle to score the first goal of the 25/26 Scottish Football season. Stevie Lawless played the ball down the right, making space for debutant and former Edinburgh City player LOGAN who charged into the box and slotted past City goalkeeper Mark Weir to open his Thistle account 240 seconds into his competitive debut.
Four minutes later, it was 2-0. ROBBIE CRAWFORD grabbed a rare goal in red and yellow after his lovely backheel beat the keeper to double Thistle’s advantage.
The Jags showed no signs of letting up, continuing their relentless assault on the Edinburgh City goal. Aidan Fitzpatrick had the ball in the net on 21 minutes, but was ruled offside by what looked to be a wafer thin margin.
The away side would soon grab their third, as a calamitous error saw City keeper Weir slip as he attempted to collect a knock back from ROBBIE MAHON. Chalmers raced in to try and grab a goal, but the ball rolled in before he could get anything on it for an own goal.
It looked like the footballing gods were conspiring against Chalmers as he went on to have not one but two goals chalked off, falling foul of the offside flag on both occasions.
Six minutes before the break, Chalmers finally got on the scoresheet as Mark Wilson’s side extended their lead further. A terrific through ball from Fitzpatrick found CHALMERS, whose low drive found the net to make it 4-0.
City reduced the deficit in first half stoppage time as Jags keeper Lewis Budinauckas thrust a free kick from Jarvis into the air. Tiwi Daramola was the first to the ball, nodding it home to pull one back for City on the stroke of half time.
Half Time – Edinburgh City 1 Partick Thistle 4
The opening five minutes of the second half saw the Jags try to grab a fifth, with Logan and then Chalmers (twice) coming close.
As the weather started to cool down though, the tempo of the game slowed, with very little in the way of action for vast swathes of the half.
Tony Watt came on for his debut in red and yellow, replacing Stevie Lawless for the final half hour.
Watt flashed a shot wide before Youth Academy graduate Thomas Horn made his senior competitive debut, replacing Aidan Fitzpatrick on the 77th minute.
On another day, Horn would have had a dream debut after Chalmers found him in from the right. Unfortunately for the youngster, a superb save from City keeper Weir denied him a goal in his first appearance and the game finished with no further goals.
Full Time – Edinburgh City 1 Partick Thistle 4
Thistle rise to first place in Group B ahead of tomorrow’s clash between Stranraer and Ross County at the Eco Gen Stadium at Stair Park. Stranraer will then make the trip to the Wyre Stadium at Firhill on Tuesday, facing Thistle in the second round of League Cup group games.
Partick Thistle: Lewis Budinauckas; Cammy Logan, Lee Ashcroft, Dan O’Reilly, Paddy Reading; Luke McBeth, Ben Stanway (Zander MacKenzie 62′ ), Robbie Crawford; Stevie Lawless (Tony Watt 62′), Logan Chalmers (Matthew Falconer 87′), Aidan Fitzpatrick (Thomas Horn 78′)
Unused Substitutes: Luis Cameron; Che Campbell, Liam Dolan, Nick Lockhart, Jamie Low
Edinburgh City: Mark Weir; Edin Lynch, Lewis McArthur (Callum Brodie 80’), Jake Service (Jack Duncan 80’), Quinn Mitchell; Jason Jarvis, James Stokes, Robbie Mahon, Innes Lawson (Logan Myles 80’); Jaden Ferguson, Tiwi Daramola
Unused Substitutes: Enzo Marinovic
Referee: Iain Sneddon
Written by David Forrest
