Championship preview and statistics: Partick Thistle - Queen of the South at Firhill Stadium

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Sat 05.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Firhill Stadium (13079 seats)

Carrying a 17 point advantage in the league table, Partick Thistle club members yearn to see their side get max points from this fixture against Queen of the South.

Insights:
  • Partick Thistle have the most clean sheets (12) in Championship
  • Queen of the South have the fewest points from losing position (2) in Championship

Queen of the South play their home matches on artifical turf, while this fixture occurs on grass. The latest results for Queen of the South when featuring on grass are 13 wins, 10 draws and 13 defeats from 36 matches. They have managed to score 56 goals and conceded 59 times in these fixtures.

It's no vacation for neither Partick Thistle nor Queen of the South as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Partick Thistle form and stats

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

Partick Thistle's last game was hosting Ayr United (placed 8th) and winning 1-0.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Partick matches with similar probabilities have ended with six wins, zero draws and zero defeats (from six games).

Partick Thistle are traveling soon after this match as the Championship match at Inverness CT awaits in four days.

Partick Thistle has scored 14 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. Partick Thistle are not conceding a lot of goals here at Firhill Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 11 matches.

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Queen of the South form and stats

There's been little loot from Queen of the South's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 11 away games in the Championship. Queen of the South only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 4 draws. The away side now have four draws in a row when taking part away from home.

Queen of the South are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 3-3 draw at Raith Rovers (placed 4th).

A loss against Dunfermline Athletic was the result prior to that, in a home game.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Queen of the South playing away, we found five games. Results were two away wins, zero draws and three home wins.

Queen has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 17 goals from 11 games. Queen of the South have conceded 23 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

This was the final score when the contenders played each other earlier this season; Queen of the South - Partick Thistle 0-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (Partick Thistle wins - draws - Queen of the South wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Partick ThistleB. Graham
B. Graham
9 goals
Queen of the SouthL. Connelly
L. Connelly
7 goals

Partick Thistle missing players

Queen of the South missing players

Partick Thistle Queen of the South
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
21 11 4 Played P 3 11 23
10 6 3 Won W 1 2 4
6 3 1 Drew D 1 4 7
5 2 0 Lost L 1 5 12
34 14 8 Scored S 4 17 24
19 7 0 Conceded C 4 23 38
81% 82% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
62% 55% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 82% 74%
48% 27% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 73% 52%
38% 18% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 55% 26%
14% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 36% 17%
33% 18% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 73% 48%
57% 64% 100% Clean Sheets C S 33% 9% 22%
29% 36% 25% Failed to Score F T 33% 18% 39%
 
5.9 6.6 7.2 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.6 5
4.6 4.3 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 9.7 6.9 6.3
1.8 1.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.5 1.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.6 10.1 12.8 Shots (avg) S ( 8 7.8 9
4.5 4.1 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 3.9 3.3
36% 31% 42% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 40% 31%
 
8.9 7.9 5.2 Shots against (avg) S A 17.7 14.6 13.2
3 2.6 1.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.5 4.7
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Partick Thistle have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the most clean sheets (12) in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the most clean sheets (7) at home in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the most points (21) at home in Championship
  • Queen of the South have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Queen of the South have the fewest points from losing position (2) in Championship
  • Queen of the South have the most conceded goals (23) away in Championship
  • Queen of the South have the most matches over the total-line (12) in Championship
  • Queen of the South haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Arbroath 23 12 8 3 36 16 11 5 5 1 16 7 12 7 3 2 20 9 20 44
2 Kilmarnock 23 12 4 7 28 16 10 5 1 4 12 8 13 7 3 3 16 8 12 40
3 Inverness CT 23 10 8 5 30 19 11 6 2 3 15 10 12 4 6 2 15 9 11 38
4 Raith Rovers 24 9 10 5 34 27 12 5 5 2 20 17 12 4 5 3 14 10 7 37
5 Partick Thistle 21 10 6 5 34 19 11 6 3 2 14 7 10 4 3 3 20 12 15 36
6 Hamilton Academical 23 6 7 10 25 38 12 3 3 6 11 22 11 3 4 4 14 16 -13 25
7 Dunfermline Athletic 23 4 10 9 22 37 12 2 6 4 12 19 11 2 4 5 10 18 -15 22
8 Ayr United 23 5 7 11 20 36 12 4 4 4 13 16 11 1 3 7 7 20 -16 22
9 Greenock Morton 22 4 9 9 26 33 11 1 6 4 17 21 11 3 3 5 9 12 -7 21
10 Queen of the South 23 4 7 12 24 38 12 2 3 7 7 15 11 2 4 5 17 23 -14 19

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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.