Arbroath will be the visitors at Firhill Stadium on Saturday for the Championship meeting with home side Partick Thistle.
View all of the Partick Thistle v Arbroath predictions, poll and stats below (including the best match odds).
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Form Guide
Partick Thistle
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Partick Thistle, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 0-4 Championship victory versus Ayr United.
For Partick Thistle, goals were scored by Brian Graham (2'), Steven Lawless (58', 67') and Tomi Adeloye (81').
It has not been often in recent games where Partick Thistle havenโt conceded. In fact, Partick Thistle have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 11 goals on the way.
Leading up to this clash, Partick Thistle:
- have not been beaten in the league by Arbroath in their last 6 games.
- have not been beaten in their last 7 home league matches.
Arbroath
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Arbroath will go into this clash following a 4-0 Championship win against Airdrie United in their most recent game.
For Arbroath, the goals were scored by Michael McKenna (27'), Jermaine Hylton (35'), Jay Bird (88') and Leighton McIntosh (91').
Indicating their partiality to eventful matches, goals have been seen as many as 20 times in the previous 6 matches in which Arbroath have played, giving a mean average of 3.33 goals for each meeting. Opposing teams have managed 6 of those goals. We will have to see if that trend can be continued on here.
Coming into this fixture, Arbroath haven't won against Partick Thistle in away games against them for the last 3 league games.
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Head to head
An inspection of their past head to head results going back to 02/04/2022 reveals that these encounters have been miserable for Arbroath. They have not managed to register any wins whatsoever while Partick Thistle have managed to find a way, winning in 67% of those games where they have faced each other.
A combined sum of 8 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 8 for The Jags and 0 created by The Red Lichties. Thatโs an average goals per game figure of 1.33.
The previous league contest featuring these clubs was Championship match day 35 on 29/04/2023 when the final score was Partick Thistle 2-0 Arbroath.
The match was refereed by Euan Anderson.
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Team News: Partick Thistle
The Partick Thistle boss Kris Doolan will be thankful to have no fitness concerns to speak of before this clash thanks to a fully healthy group available for selection.
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Team News: Arbroath
Thanks to a fully injury-free group available to select from, the Arbroath manager Dick Campbell has zero fitness worries at all ahead of this game.
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Prediction
In our view, Arbroath should have enough to put a goal past this Partick Thistle team, however that probably shouldnโt be as many as they will have scored against them.
We can see a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 win for Partick Thistle at the end of this one. We are expecting it to be pretty even.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Victor Martins,
00:59 19/09/2023
๐๏ธ Team Focus:
Partick Thistle
Formed: 1876
Stadium: Firhill Stadium (10,102)
Captain: Brian Graham
Chairman: Alistair Creevy
Manager: Kris Doolan
Competitions: Championship position 3
๐ Star Man: Steven Lawless
Usually used in the Left Wing position, Steven Lawless was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Having made a first senior appearance for Albion Rovers in the 2010 - 2011 season, the talented Forward has got 3 league goals in this Championship 2023 - 2024 campaign to date coming from a total of 5 appearances.