Soccer preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Partick Thistle receive Cove Rangers

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 04.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Firhill Stadium (13079 seats)

Partick Thistle have claimed 23 of their 33 in total here at their home arena. Will more points be won against Cove Rangers?

Insights:
  • Partick Thistle have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Championship
  • Cove Rangers have the most conceded goals (47) in Championship

This stadium has grass, which is not Cove Rangers's everyday surface at their own stadium. When playing on grass Cove Rangers have performed like this: Played 21 matches yielding 4 wins, 7 draws and 10 defeats with the goal production 21-41 (scored/conceded).

Cove Rangers could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Scottish Cup game only four sleeps ago.

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Partick Thistle form and stats

7 victories, 2 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what Partick Thistle have to build on here at Firhill Stadium in the Championship.

Partick Thistle's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus Hamilton Academical (placed 10th).

A 1-1 result against Dunfermline Athletic (after extra-time, 3-2 on penalties) before that one, played at their own home stadium in the Scottish Cup.

Lots of goals and action? Who knows the future, but we do know that 10 of the 13 most recent league games with this club has contained three goals or more.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (29 in 12 games), Partick Thistle's attacking play is working. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Partick defense is not exactly impregnable. 18 goals conceded from 12 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Cove Rangers form and stats

There's been little loot from Cove Rangers's travels as they have only collected 4 points from 9 away games in the Championship. Cove Rangers only have 0 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 4 draws.

This game can not go any worse than the previous one, a Scottish Cup home defeat versus Ayr United with 0-3 on the scoreboard.

Preceding that, the 0-5 home loss versus Ayr United.

The visiting Cove Rangers have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 12 goals from 9 games. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Cove Rangers's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 25 goals in 9 travels.

Head 2 Head

Partick Thistle have won at least one point in the last 4 matches (0-4-0) against Cove Rangers.

Partick and Cove Rangers have met already this season: Cove Rangers - Partick Thistle 1-1.

Top Goalscorers

Partick ThistleB. Graham
B. Graham
9 goals
Cove RangersC. Scully
C. Scully
7 goals
Cove RangersM. Megginson
M. Megginson
6 goals

Partick Thistle missing players

Cove Rangers missing players

Partick Thistle Cove Rangers
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 12 4 Played P 3 9 22
10 7 2 Won W 0 0 5
3 2 1 Drew D 0 4 7
9 3 1 Lost L 3 5 10
42 29 6 Scored S 2 12 30
37 18 3 Conceded C 11 25 47
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
91% 92% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 89% 91%
73% 83% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 78% 64%
45% 58% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 56% 45%
36% 42% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 33% 23%
68% 75% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 78% 59%
9% 8% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 18%
23% 17% 25% Failed to Score F T 33% 22% 23%
 
6.2 6.2 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.3 5.2 4.6
4.1 3.4 2.2 Corners against (avg) C A 2 4.7 4.9
1.5 1.4 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.7 2.8 2.1
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.5 10.2 11.8 Shots (avg) S ( 7.3 7.9 8.6
4.5 5.1 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 3.4 3.5
42% 48% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 18% 39% 38%
 
7.4 7.3 7.8 Shots against (avg) S A 10.3 10.6 10.6
3.1 2.7 1.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 5.6 5
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Cove Rangers have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Cove Rangers have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Cove Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Cove Rangers have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Championship
  • Cove Rangers have the fewest points (4) away in Championship
  • Cove Rangers have the most conceded goals (25) away in Championship
  • Cove Rangers have the most conceded goals (47) in Championship
  • Cove Rangers have the most conceded goals in the first half (23) in Championship
  • Cove Rangers have the most conceded goals in the second half (24) in Championship
  • Cove Rangers have yet to win a game away.
  • Cove Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Partick Thistle have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Partick Thistle have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Cove Rangers have scored away.
  • Partick Thistle have the fewest clean sheets (1) at home in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the fewest matches under the total-line (6) in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the most matches over the total-line (16) in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the most scored goals (29) at home in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the the best goal difference (+11) at home in Championship
  • Partick Thistle haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Queen's Park 23 13 4 6 46 30 11 7 2 2 22 12 12 6 2 4 24 18 16 43
2 Ayr United 23 11 6 6 46 31 12 5 5 2 22 13 11 6 1 4 24 18 15 39
3 Dundee 21 11 5 5 36 25 10 6 1 3 21 13 11 5 4 2 15 12 11 38
4 Partick Thistle 22 10 3 9 42 37 12 7 2 3 29 18 10 3 1 6 13 19 5 33
5 Inverness CT 22 8 7 7 32 30 11 3 5 3 16 10 11 5 2 4 16 20 2 31
6 Greenock Morton 21 8 6 7 29 24 9 5 1 3 16 7 12 3 5 4 13 17 5 30
7 Raith Rovers 23 8 6 9 30 31 12 5 4 3 22 18 11 3 2 6 8 13 -1 30
8 Cove Rangers 22 5 7 10 30 47 13 5 3 5 18 22 9 0 4 5 12 25 -17 22
9 Arbroath 23 4 9 10 22 37 11 1 4 6 7 18 12 3 5 4 15 19 -15 21
10 Hamilton Academical 22 4 5 13 18 39 10 2 2 6 10 17 12 2 3 7 8 22 -21 17

Read more about Championship

The Scottish Championship is the second level of the Scottish Professional Football League. Ten teams play each other four times for a total of 36 fixtures in a season from August to May. The winner in the league table promotes to the Premiership and a playoff can promote one more team.