Partick Thistle 2 EKYC 4

The match was a 12 o c'clock kick off on the astro grass at the Firhill Complex, Maryhill. The only player missing was John Dingwall who has broken his arm and will be out till into the New Year. Everyone wishes him a speedy recovery.

The game was played in freezing conditions. The pitch was great, but a little frosty down the left hand side.

EKYC started playing some great football, and the passing was great to see. RYAN KELLY scored the opening goal with a great finish, after some nifty footwork down the left hand side. We had Thistle hemmed in their own half, and some poor finishing kept the score down, and in their first attack, which was a long hopeful punt up the park, YC defenders were too slow to react and the centre forward ran through and beat James Kinniburgh with a shot low into the net.

At the end of the first period it was 1-1, and some changes were made replacing Liam Chrichton who had hurt his back with Ross McDonagh, Cameron Gibson on for Darren Smith, Thomas McGuire for Jack Kerr and Lee Elliot for Gary McCulloch.

Within a minute ROSS MCDONAGH had charged down a short back pass to the Thistle keeper and rolled the ball into the net to make it 2-1.

Thistle again pulled a goal back this time from a short kick out by Kinniburgh, the striker took a touch and then fired it high over James' head and into the net.

A couple more changes were made and we continued to press with some good link up play with Ryan Kelly and ROSS McDONAGH resulting in the latter getting his second of the day with a cool finnish.

We then had 2 goals ruled offside, hit the post and the keeper had a great save before ROSS McDONAGH completed his hat trick with a tap in.

This was a great display on a big park, the boys played some excellant football and kept possession well.

We will try to arrange some games during the festive period.