It's been rough for Queen of the South so far, and that also applies to Dunfermline Athletic. These weathered teams hope for some much needed points here.
- Queen of the South have lost all their home matches so far.
- Dunfermline Athletic have the fewest scored goals (4) in Championship
Dunfermline Athletic could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Championship game only three sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Raith Rovers. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Queen of the South form and stats
Three Championship home games done for Queen of the South, who are not happy collecting 0 points from these matches. Three consecutive losses here at Palmerston Park is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.
Queen lost their last game at Inverness CT (placed 1st) after a 1-2 scoreline.
Ahead of that match, Queen of the South lost 0-2 at home to Arbroath.This is expected to be a close game, with Queen 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 twelve games. Queen of the South has won three of these, drawn two and lost seven.
Queen have scored 1 goal here in 3 league matches, a depressing statistic. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 5 goals have been conceded.
Dunfermline Athletic form and stats
The Championship season is young and Dunfermline Athletic have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 2 draws and 1 defeat so far. Dunfermline have had a generous will to share for some time now, running a streak of three draws in a row.
Dunfermline are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Raith Rovers (placed 4th). As mentioned above, Dunfermline drew the match against Raith Rovers. Manager P. Grant brought on K. O'Hara to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.
A draw for Dunfermline Athletic before that, at their own venue hosting Hamilton Academical (0-0).As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Dunfermline Athletic in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Dunfermline Athletic, four draws and five defeats.
Dunfermline are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 4 away goals from 3 games (in the league). For Dunfermline, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Queen of the South two wins, three draws and Dunfermline Athletic five victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Connelly 2 goals | R. Paton 2 goals |  K. O'Hara 2 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 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 71% |
| 71% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 71% |
| 57% | 33% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 57% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 67% | 29% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 57% | 33% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 43% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 29% | 67% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 57% |
| 4.6 | 4.7 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 7.3 | 6.3 |
| 5.9 | 5 | 9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.3 | 6.3 |
| 1.1 | 0.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7.7 | 10 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 7.7 | 7.6 |
| 3.4 | 2.3 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 33% | 14% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 67% | 29% |
- All of Dunfermline Athletic's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Dunfermline Athletic have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Dunfermline Athletic have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Dunfermline Athletic have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Championship
- Dunfermline Athletic have the fewest points (2) away in Championship
- Dunfermline Athletic have the fewest scored goals (4) in Championship
- Dunfermline Athletic have the most conceded goals in the first half (8) in Championship
- Dunfermline Athletic have yet to win a game.
- Dunfermline Athletic is in the worst form (0-3-3)
- Queen of the South have lost all their home matches so far.
- Queen of the South 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 | Inverness CT | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 19 |
| 2 | Kilmarnock | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 16 |
| 3 | Arbroath | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 14 |
| 4 | Raith Rovers | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| 5 | Partick Thistle | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 6 | Ayr United | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 8 |
| 7 | Queen of the South | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -4 | 6 |
| 8 | Greenock Morton | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -5 | 5 |
| 9 | Hamilton Academical | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | -8 | 5 |
| 10 | Dunfermline Athletic | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -8 | 4 |