📏 Form Guide

Arbroath

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Arbroath will be hoping for a better result following the 5-2 Championship losing effort in their last game against Airdrie United.

For Arbroath, goals were scored by Ryan Dow (16') and David Gold (54'). Aaron Lyall (39'), Liam McStravick (45'), Mason Hancock (47'), Charlie Telfer (69') and Craig Watson (77') scored for Airdrie United.

Matches featuring Arbroath have often been entertaining encounters lately with a lot of goalmouth action anticipated. Over their past half dozen clashes alone, the sum of 26 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 4.33 goals per game) with 7 of these being chalked up by Arbroath. We will see whether or not that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

Their previous form shows that Arbroath:

• have left without a victory over Partick Thistle in their last 2 matches in the league.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 league matches at home.

Partick Thistle

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Partick Thistle will go into this clash following on from a 2-1 Championship win with the defeat of Greenock Morton in their last fixture.

For Partick Thistle, goals were scored by Brian Graham (28') and Scott Robinson (52'). Robbie Muirhead (94') was the scorer for Greenock Morton.

The stats don’t lie, and Partick Thistle have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 12 goals in total. In defence, Partick Thistle have been far from perfect.

Leading up to this clash, Partick Thistle:

• haven't been defeated by Arbroath when having played them away from home in the previous 4 matches in the league. An impressive run.
• are without an away win for the past 6 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 19/11/2022 shows us that Arbroath have won 1 of these and Partick Thistle 4, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

A combined sum of 16 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 4 of them for The Red Lichties and 12 being from The Jags. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The last league encounter featuring these sides was Championship match day 20 on 06/01/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Partick Thistle 4-0 Arbroath.

The referee was Calum Scott.

ℹ️ Team News: Arbroath

There is just a single fitness concern for the Arbroath manager Jim McIntyre to be concerned with from an otherwise complete group. Zak Delaney (unknown injury) misses out.

📋 Team News: Partick Thistle

Owing to a completely healthy squad available to choose from, the Partick Thistle manager Kris Doolan does not have any fitness concerns at all before this match.

✨ Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Arbroath must be fancied to put a goal past this Partick Thistle side, although one goal is unlikely to be good enough.

We’ve gone for a 1-2 winning margin for Partick Thistle at the end of this one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 14:02 23/03/2024