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Monday 2nd March 2015

Weekend in numbers

@splstats looks at some of the numbers behind the weekend games:

@splstats looks at some of the numbers behind the weekend games:

10 Hearts defeated Cowdenbeath 10-0 at Tynecastle on Saturday to record their biggest ever league victory. The Jam Tarts had previously hit double figures in the league on three occasions, all of them by a 10-3 scoreline. Clyde were beaten 10-3 at Barrowfield in 1891, Queen's Park were defeated 10-3 at Tynecastle in 1912 and, most recently, Albion Rovers were the victims of a 10-3 scoreline at Cliftonhill in the wartime league in 1944.

20 Celtic defeated Aberdeen in Sunday's big title showdown to move six points clear at the top of the Premiership table. The Bhoys have now recorded 20 consecutive home league wins over the Dons in a run which stretches back more than a decade. Aberdeen's last league win at Parkhead came in October 2004, when goals from Darren Mackie, Fernando Pasquinelli and John Stewart handed them a 3-2 win.

20 Partick Thistle's 2-0 win at Tannadice on Saturday was their first win over Dundee Utd in just under 20 years. The last time Thistle beat United was back in March 1995, when The Shawshank Redemption and The Jungle Book were in UK cinemas. That was also by the same 2-0 scoreline, with goals from Tom Smith and Wayne Foster handing Thistle victory at Firhill. The sides had met 17 times since then, with United winning eight and the other nine being drawn.

15 Brechin City's 2-1 win at home to Stenhousemuir saw them leapfrog Forfar into third place in League 1. Ray McKinnon's side are now unbeaten in 15 league matches, something they hadn't achieved since the 1998/99 Division Three campaign. This is now their best ever unbeaten run outside the bottom tier of Scottish football, and they are just two games short of equalling their club record of 17, set in 1980/81. City have won all four of their matches against The Warriors this season (including a Scottish Cup tie), having lost all four against the same opposition last season.

100 Derek Riordan, playing as a trialist, scored the 100th league goal of his career to earn East Fife a 2-1 victory over Annan Athletic. Gary Naysmith's side are now unbeaten in six matches, and have moved to within a point of Annan in the race for the final play-off place in League 2. Riordan's first career goals came while on loan at Cowdenbeath in January 2003 – he netted a hat-trick in a thrilling 7-5 win away to Brechin. The bulk of his century of league goals came across his two spells at Hibs, where he found the net 90 times in the league. Riordan also netted five goals in his short spell at Celtic, as well as a solitary goal in the Chinese Super League for Shaanxi Chanba back in 2011.