Despite a decent performance Partick Thistle came out comfortable winners against the sons at Firhill. There were changes galore with James Creaney being given his first league start in 2 months,Scott Agnew was rested and as was star man Jim Lister with the Hamilton game in mind. Sons started brightly and could of been ahead after only 3 minutes when a wonderful solo run from Garry Fleming resulted in an equal spectacular Scott Fox save onto the post. A few minutes later Fleming again tested the former Dundee keepers reactions with a low drive which he got down well to hold. Thistle took the lead however against the run of play,slack marking down the sons left allowed Stephen O'Donnell time to cross his ball in was knocked down by Steven Craig to the diminutive Stevie Lawless who hit a shot into the ground and beyond the reach of Stephen Grindlay for a goal that should be called Steven!. Dumbarton had a chance to equalise moments later when Fleming played in Mark Gilhaney but he could do no better than sting the hands of fox. And so that how the score stayed at half time. In the second half Sons again threatened but seemed to lack an end product,first Robbie Winters then Steven Mcdougall forced Fox into some fairly routine saves.Thistle still looked dangerous however and Craig had a what looked like a fair goal disallowed for alleged pushing. These squandered chances were made even more costly when Lawless turned Creaney before hitting a dipping shot over the top of the stranded Grindlay and into the net,Thistle could of added a third moments later, when impressive sub Christie Elliot squared for Kris Doolan but the former Clyde hitman could only smack the ball over. The jags did finally add a third in the 84th minute, Elliot burst free down the left and the former Whitby and Albion Rovers striker squared for Doolan who this time made no mistake from a yard out. The result puts Thistle in pole position for the title and leaves sons 9th still only 2 points behind cowdenbeath going into the Morton game.
Man of the Match: Garry Fleming,won everything in the air and was incredibly unlucky to be on the losing side. One thistle fan even said he was the best player on the pitch on the way out which says a lot. Ref: Iain Brines, another poor display from the alleged SPL official chalked off what looked like a perfectly good thistle goal and failed to show cards for poor tackles by Smith and Bannigan.
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