Partick Thistle |
1 - 3 |
Ross County |
League (Premiership) |
Goalscorers | |
Lyle Taylor (68) |
Craig Curran (10) Raffaele De Vita (64) Marcus Fraser (70) |
Team Managers | |
Alan Archibald |
Jim McIntyre |
Starting Eleven | |
Paul Gallacher Stephen O'Donnell Daniel Seaborne (c) Callum Booth Ryan Stevenson Frederic Frans Christie Elliott Abdul Osman Gary Fraser Declan McDaid Lyle Taylor |
Mark Brown .21 Jamie Reckord .12 Marcus Fraser .44 Scott Boyd .5 Paul Quinn .43 Jackson Irvine .36 Martin Woods .26 Michael Gardyne .40 Raffaele De Vita .24 Liam Boyce .16 Craig Curran .11 |
Bench | |
Scott Basalaj (GK) Conrad Balatoni James Craigen Stuart Bannigan Kris Doolan Steven Lawless Kallum Higginbotham |
Antonio Reguero Cameron Burgess .38 Joe Cardle .7 Filip Kiss .10 Tony Dingwall .30 Jake Jervis .9 Darvydas Sernas |
Substitutions | |
Kris Doolan - Declan McDaid (45) Stuart Bannigan - Callum Booth (57) Kalum Higginbotham - Abdul Osman (58) |
Jake Jervis for Liam Boyce (72) Filip Kiss for Martin Woods (77) Tony Dingwall for Craig Curran (86) |
Cautions | |
Danny Seaborne (53) Gary Fraser (65) |
Martin Woods (7) Jamie Reckord (78) Marcus Fraser (82) |
Red Cards | |
None. | None. |
Match Officials | |
Stephen Finnie (Referee) |
Source unknown.
Ross County's revival continued, with a second successive victory for Jim McIntyre's side. The result lifts County off the bottom of the table and drags Partick Thistle a little closer to involvement in a relegation battle.
Craig Curran opened the scoring and missed a second-half penalty before Raffaele De Vita did add a second. Lyle Taylor pulled a goal back but Marcus Fraser put the result beyond doubt. The visitors looked hungrier throughout, with the battle for survival perhaps ensuring they played with an added edge. Thistle have now lost five in a row though and find themselves just seven points above the bottom three.
A failure to stem that run could yet lead to a four-way fight to avoid the drop or at least a play-off, while County currently look the form team in that dogfight.
Their opening goal owed less to fabulous attacking than it did to defensive ineptitude and a bit of good fortune, as Michael Gardyne's cross cannoned off Daniel Seaborne from Frederic Frans' attempted clearance, falling kindly for Curran to flick into the net from six yards.
Paul Quinn should have added to the lead, but volleyed wide from 12 yards out and Curran's penalty miss after Liam Boyce was brought down by Seaborne hinted that County could yet rue missed opportunities.
But any such concerns were eased as Gardyne's perfectly-weighted pass allowed De Vita to slide the ball beyond keeper Paul Gallacher. But they were given some hope as Taylor leapt to head past Brown from a Kallum Higginbotham corner.
County refused to buckle though and assured themselves of all three points courtesy of Fraser's superb individual goal. It capped a team performance typified by stout defending and swift counter-attacking, a blend that could carry County to safety.
2014/15 | All Time | |||||
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Age | Nat | |||||
Mark Brown (GK) | 33 | 15 | - | 61 | - | |
Jamie Reckord | 22 | 15 | - | 15 | - | |
Paul Quinn | 29 | 18 | 3 | 18 | 3 | |
Scott Boyd | 28 | 23 | - | 276 | 12 | |
Marcus Fraser | 20 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
Jackson Irvine | 21 | 20 | 1 | 20 | 1 | |
Raffaele De Vita | 27 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
Michael Gardyne | 29 | 15 | 2 | 226 | 49 | |
Martin Woods | 29 | 16 | 1 | 16 | 1 | |
Liam Boyce | 23 | 22 | 4 | 22 | 4 | |
Craig Curran | 25 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 2 | |
Tony Dingwall (sub) | 20 | 13 | 2 | 13 | 2 | |
Filip Kiss (sub) | 24 | 23 | - | 40 | 6 | |
Jake Jervis (sub) | 23 | 25 | 4 | 25 | 4 |
No league table has been added for this season.