Season ticket holders at Palmerston Park haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Queen of the South languishing in the 8th position so far. The guesting Dunfermline Athletic will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Dunfermline Athletic have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 5-3-2 (win-draw-loss) from ten matches.
Queen of the South form and stats
4-2-5 (win-draw-lost) are the Championship numbers at home for Queen of the South so far this season. Queen of the South are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Palmerston Park, having lost their two previous games here.
Queen of the South's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 2-3 versus Alloa Athletic (placed 9th). Preceding that match was the home game against Dundee United that was lost 0-1.
This is expected to be a close game, with Queen of the South perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Queen of the South as a small favourite), we find nine games. Queen of the South has won 1 of these, drawn 4 and lost 4.
Queen of the South are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 15 goals in 11 games. 12 goals have been conceded.
Dunfermline Athletic form and stats
There's been little loot from Dunfermline Athletic's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 10 away games in the Championship. Dunfermline Athletic only have 2 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 2 draws. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Dunfermline Athletic's last three away games as they have all been lost.
Dunfermline Athletic are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the Championship against Dundee (placed 4th). Prior to that match, the Dunfermline Athletic manager S. Crawford faced defeat when travelling to Greenock Morton and losing 2-3.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Dunfermline Athletic in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Dunfermline Athletic, 6 draws and 4 defeats.
Dunfermline Athletic are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 10 games (in the league). Dunfermline Athletic have conceded 16 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Dunfermline Athletic - Queen of the South 2-0. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: 3 wins for Queen of the South, 4 draws and 3 wins for Dunfermline Athletic. Over 2,5 goals: 3 times; under 2,5 goals: 7 games.Top Goalscorers
  K. Nisbet 17 goals |   S. Dobbie 7 goals |  R. Dow 5 goals |
Queen of the South missing players
Dunfermline Athletic missing players
| Queen of the South | Dunfermline Athletic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 11 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 10 | 22 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| 22 | 15 | 3 | Scored | S | 7 | 12 | 33 |
| 24 | 12 | 1 | Conceded | C | 6 | 16 | 30 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 70% | 73% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 82% |
| 40% | 36% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 40% | 41% |
| 20% | 27% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 20% | 32% |
| 5% | 9% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 20% | 18% |
| 40% | 45% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 50% | 50% |
| 25% | 27% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 20% | 23% |
| 40% | 27% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 30% | 27% |
| 4.7 | 4.4 | 1.5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 6.2 | 4.8 | 5.3 |
| 5 | 5 | 4 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 7 | 5.9 | 4.4 |
| 1.6 | 1.8 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 241 | 136 | 35 | Total Shots | T S | 35 | 82 | 221 |
| 97 | 50 | 19 | Shots on Target | S O | 15 | 34 | 87 |
| 23% | 30% | 16% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 35% | 38% |
- Dunfermline Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Dunfermline Athletic is in the worst form (1-0-5)
- Queen of the South haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dundee United | 22 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 49 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 32 | 53 |
| 2 | Inverness CT | 21 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 29 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 35 |
| 3 | Ayr United | 21 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 34 | 30 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 4 | 34 |
| 4 | Dundee | 21 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 16 | -4 | 29 |
| 5 | Dunfermline Athletic | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 33 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 28 |
| 6 | Arbroath | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 15 | -5 | 28 |
| 7 | Greenock Morton | 21 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 29 | 40 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 26 | -11 | 26 |
| 8 | Queen of the South | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -2 | 25 |
| 9 | Alloa Athletic | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 26 | 36 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 19 | -10 | 24 |
| 10 | Partick Thistle | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 29 | 42 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 22 | -13 | 22 |