Queen's Park 1, Partick Thistle 2
Tuesday 7th July 2009
Thistle made it two wins from two close door fixtures although given the size of crowd at Lesser Hampden tonight ‘close door' was something of a misnomer.
As these matches tend to be this was a low key affair with Thistle having to come from a goal down to win 2-1.
True to his word Ian McCall left a number of players out of this game and in the game's first serious piece of action Craig Hinchcliffe was picking the ball out of the net. In the 7th minute Hinchcliffe came for but didn't claim a cross from the left and the Queen's Park number ten was able to head home.
It took Thistle just six minutes to level the scores. Kris Doolan and Chris Erskine combined to set up one of the three trialists that started the game and he made no mistake with a low shot.
That proved to be all the scoring action in a first half where the only other notable event was the substitution of the goalscoring trialist following what looked a nasty clash of heads with a Queen's Park defender.
Thistle dominated the second half. Kris Doolan heading just wide in 48 minutes and a Marc Twaddle shot from distance in the 62nd minute not being too far away.
Thistle had to wait, however, until the 77th minute to score what proved to be the game's winning. The trialist number 10 created the opening for himself before finding the net with a powerful finish.
Team: Hinchcliffe, Paton (McGeough), Twaddle, Little, Maxwell, Rowson (Hodge), Trialist (Cairney), Trialist (Trialist), Trialist (Bannigan), Doolan, Erskine
