It's square one in Premiership Play-Offs - the first fixture of the season. Read the full preview and see how Partick Thistle and Ross County did in their pre-season matches!
Ross County could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Premiership game only four sleeps ago. That game, against Kilmarnock, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Ross County.
Partick Thistle form and stats
It's the first season at a new level for Partick as they were promoted from Championship last season. Happy days that were secured through 16 wins, 9 draws and 11 losses from 36 games. The team scored 39 goals at home last season and conceded 20. It will be interesting to see how they perform at this level.
This is expected to be a close game, with Partick Thistle perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Partick Thistle as a small favourite), we find 8 games. Partick Thistle has won 4 of these, drawn 2 and lost 2.
There will be little rest for Partick Thistle after this match as they are travelling to Ross County for a Premiership Play-Offs game in only three days.
Ross County form and stats
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Ross County in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Ross County, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
A new game in only three days for County, the Premiership Play-Offs home match versus Partick Thistle. Busy days.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Partick Thistle three wins, three draws and Ross County four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. White 11 goals |   S. Tiffoney 8 goals |
Partick Thistle missing players
Ross County missing players
| Partick Thistle | Ross County | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.8 | 13.5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5.2 | 5.5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 76% | 64% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.2 | 7 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.5 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
