Championship: Queen's Park - Partick Thistle pre-match guide and facts

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Competition: Scotland Championship
Competition: Mon 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ochilview Park (5267 seats)

Championship: Queen's Park are ready for the visit of Partick Thistle in what should be an intriguing football fixture. Tipsway gives you all the news, stats and facts!

Insights:
  • Queen's Park have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Partick Thistle have the most scored goals (40) in Championship

This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Queen's Park form and stats

The story so far in the Championship for Queen's Park at their home stadium (Ochilview Park) is 5 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Queen's Park has won four games in a row. The Cove Rangers match was the last time out without a victory.

Queen's are returning here after visiting Arbroath and winning with a 4-1 scoreline. Murray, Thomas and Savoury (2) scored the goal(s).

Before that result, a home victory hosting Montrose in the Challenge Cup. This is expected to be a close game, with Queen's Park perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Queen's Park as a small favourite), we find 8 games. Queen's Park has won 4 of these, drawn 4 and lost 0.

Goals, goals, goals? Who knows about this one, but we do know that 8 of the 10 most recent league games with this team has contained three goals or more.

On the other hand, Queen's have conceded 12 goals.

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Partick Thistle form and stats

Playing away, Partick Thistle have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 5 defeats in the Championship this season.

The regulars enjoyed Partick Thistle's previous match versus Inverness CT (placed 7th), a 5-1 win played at home. As mentioned above, Partick was the only team on the pitch versus Inverness CT in their previous game, winning 5-1. This could be a tougher task.

Before that, Partick Thistle secured a home win against Ayr United with the score 3-2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 10 similar matches played by Partick Thistle in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Partick, 3 draws and 6 defeats.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 9 of this club's 10 most recent league fixtures have ended with at least three goals.

Partick Thistle are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 13 away goals from 9 games (in the league). Partick Thistle's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 17 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

The newest logged match involving both these contenders is the Partick Thistle - Queen's 0-4 played not long ago this season. Head to head numbers (for the last six meetings): Queen's Park won two games, zero matches ended with a tie and Partick Thistle got four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / one.

Top Goalscorers

Queen's ParkS. Murray
S. Murray
10 goals
Partick ThistleB. Graham
B. Graham
9 goals
Queen's ParkG. Savoury
G. Savoury
6 goals

Queen's Park missing players

Partick Thistle missing players

Queen's Park Partick Thistle
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 2 9 19
10 5 1 Won W 1 3 9
3 2 0 Drew D 0 1 3
5 2 1 Lost L 1 5 7
36 18 2 Scored S 5 13 40
27 12 2 Conceded C 6 17 33
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
94% 89% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 95%
72% 78% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 79%
44% 44% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 33% 53%
28% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 33% 42%
61% 78% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 74%
22% 22% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 11%
17% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 16%
 
6.5 7.9 9.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 6.1 6
6.8 6.3 5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 5 4.2
1.4 1.3 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.4 1.4
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
11.3 11.4 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8.5 8 9.6
4.8 4.9 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 3.8 4.7
42% 41% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 56% 38% 45%
 
11.6 12.1 12.5 Shots against (avg) S A 9.5 7.1 7.5
5.2 5.2 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 3.8 3.3
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Partick Thistle have the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the most conceded goals in the second half (20) in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the most matches over the total-line (15) in Championship
  • Partick Thistle have the most scored goals (40) in Championship
  • Partick Thistle haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Queen's Park have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Queen's Park have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Queen's Park have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Queen's Park 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 Dundee 18 10 4 4 30 20 8 5 1 2 16 9 10 5 3 2 14 11 10 34
2 Queen's Park 18 10 3 5 36 27 9 5 2 2 18 12 9 5 1 3 18 15 9 33
3 Ayr United 19 9 5 5 38 27 10 4 4 2 19 11 9 5 1 3 19 16 11 32
4 Greenock Morton 18 8 6 4 27 19 8 5 1 2 15 5 10 3 5 2 12 14 8 30
5 Partick Thistle 19 9 3 7 40 33 10 6 2 2 27 16 9 3 1 5 13 17 7 30
6 Raith Rovers 19 7 3 9 24 26 10 5 2 3 19 15 9 2 1 6 5 11 -2 24
7 Inverness CT 18 6 5 7 20 26 9 2 4 3 10 9 9 4 1 4 10 17 -6 23
8 Cove Rangers 18 5 6 7 27 28 10 5 2 3 16 9 8 0 4 4 11 19 -1 21
9 Arbroath 19 2 8 9 13 28 10 1 4 5 6 14 9 1 4 4 7 14 -15 14
10 Hamilton Academical 18 2 5 11 16 37 8 1 2 5 9 16 10 1 3 6 7 21 -21 11

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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.