5 – Dundee United remain 14 points clear at the top of the Ladbrokes Championship thanks to a 1-0 victory over Queen of the South at Palmerston. Robbie Neilson’s side have picked up 10 wins and a draw since their last defeat, which came on their previous visit to Dumfries in October. The Terrors have recorded five consecutive away wins for the first time in over 30 years – the last time they did so was from December 1988 to January 1989.
Dundee United’s five away wins in a row
02/11/2019 – Inverness CT 0-3 Dundee United
08/11/2019 – Dundee 0-2 Dundee United
10/12/2019 – Greenock Morton 1-2 Dundee United
14/12/2019 – Arbroath 0-1 Dundee United
04/01/2020 – Queen of the South 0-1 Dundee United
1 – Alloa Athletic and Partick Thistle drew 1-1 at the Indodrill Stadium to keep the Jags four points ahead of the Wasps at the bottom of the Ladbrokes Championship table. The sides have met three times this season and all of them have ended in 1-1 draws. In all three matches, Alloa have taken the lead but have been pegged back by Thistle. Forty-year-old former Scotland striker Kenny Miller started for Ian McCall’s men – he made his debut for Hibernian in 1997 and has now played in four different decades (90s, 00s, 10s, 20s).
Alloa and Thistle head-to-head
03/08/2019 – Alloa Athletic 1-1 Partick Thistle (Hetherington 34; Cardle 60)
26/11/2019 – Partick Thistle 1-1 Alloa Athletic (Zanatta 38; Trouten 15)
04/01/2020 – Alloa Athletic 1-1 Partick Thistle (Brown 62; Bannigan 74 pen)
4 – Raith Rovers remain top of Ladbrokes League 1 after beating Peterhead 2-1 at Stark’s Park on Saturday. John McGlynn’s side have won eight of their last 10 matches in all competitions, with their only defeat coming against Dumbarton last month. Amazingly, Rovers have beaten the Blue Toon four times at Stark’s Park this season, having faced them twice in the league and also in both the Betfred Cup and Scottish Cup – it is the first time they have ever beaten the same team four times in the same season in Kirkcaldy.
Rovers’ home wins over Peterhead
23/07/2019 – Raith Rovers 3-1 Peterhead (Betfred Cup)
14/09/2019 – Raith Rovers 4-0 Peterhead (Ladbrokes League 1)
23/11/2019 – Raith Rovers 1-0 Peterhead (Scottish Cup)
23/07/2019 – Raith Rovers 2-1 Peterhead (Ladbrokes League 1)
9 – Falkirk beat Dumbarton 3-0 at the Falkirk Stadium to remain three points off the top of the Ladbrokes League 1 table. Declan McManus scored his 10th and 11th league goals of the season after Charlie Telfer had opened the scoring. Falkirk remain unbeaten under the management of Lee Miller and David McCracken – they have picked up four wins and three draws since they took over in November. The Bairns are now unbeaten in their last nine matches against Dumbarton, stretching back to the start of 2017.
Falkirk’s unbeaten run v Dumbarton
25/02/2017 – Falkirk 2-2 Dumbarton (Ladbrokes Championship)
06/05/2017 – Dumbarton 0-1 Falkirk (Ladbrokes Championship)
12/08/2017 – Falkirk 1-1 Dumbarton (Ladbrokes Championship)
23/12/2017 – Dumbarton 0-0 Falkirk (Ladbrokes Championship)
24/02/2018 – Falkirk 0-0 Dumbarton (Ladbrokes Championship)
21/04/2018 – Dumbarton 2-5 Falkirk (Ladbrokes Championship)
10/08/2019 – Falkirk 6-0 Dumbarton (Ladbrokes League 1)
16/11/2019 – Dumbarton 1-1 Falkirk (Ladbrokes League 1)
04/01/2020 – Falkirk 3-0 Dumbarton (Ladbrokes League 1)
3 – Stirling Albion climbed to fifth place in Ladbrokes League 2 thanks to a 3-0 victory over Albion Rovers at the Reigart Stadium. Darryl Duffy’s first-half hat-trick gave the Binos their third away win in four matches and moved them to within four points of Annan Athletic in the final play-off place. Saturday’s hat-trick was the 35-year-old’s first in Scottish football, 16 years after he made his debut for Rangers. His only previous career hat-trick came in India in 2016, when he netted three times as Salgaocar FC won 3-2 away to DSK Shivajians in the I-League.
Stirling Albion’s away league hat-tricks since 2000
15/05/2004 – Scott McLean v Cowdenbeath (3rd Division)
24/01/2009 – Chris Hamilton v Stranraer (2nd Division)
10/05/2014 – Jordan White v Annan Athletic (2nd Division play-offs)
12/12/2015 – Darren Smith v Montrose (League 2)
26/01/2019 – Peter MacDonald v Albion Rovers (League 2)
04/01/2020 – Darryl Duffy v Albion Rovers (League 2)
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