- Home form: Queen’s Park have won five, drawn seven and lost five of their 17 home Championship 2025/2026 fixtures.
- Away form: Dunfermline have won six, drawn four and lost seven of their 17 away Championship 2025/2026 fixtures, scoring 26 goals.
- Head-to-head: Dunfermline have won two and drawn three of the last five head-to-head meetings between the two sides, Queen’s Park have not won any of their last two home fixtures against Dunfermline.
Tactical set-up clash at Firhill Stadium
Dunfermline approach
Dunfermline (4th, 47pts from 33 matches) currently hold a seven-point advantage over Queen’s Park (6th, 40pts from 34 matches) in the Championship 2025/2026 table, and they will arrive at Firhill on Saturday in high spirits having won three, drawn one and lost one of their last five Championship matches. Neil Lennon has made some positive tactical tweaks since taking over as Dunfermline head coach in March 2025, but the club have always had an abundance of talent and some organisational focus from the coach to be competitive in the second tier.
- Dunfermline will play an aggressive 3-4-3 system with wing-backs who are allowed to get forward, and they will play with a high tempo and look to transition quickly when they win the ball back.
- Andy Tod is their talisman, he has scored 13 goals in 30 Championship appearances this season, he is a consistent goal scorer and his presence up front for the Pars is often enough to cause defences major problems.
- Queen’s Park, by contrast, are likely to line up in a 4-2-3-1 and will look to be solid in defense first and foremost.
Queen’s Park approach
Sean Crighton has been in charge of the Championship club since May 2025, and his focus has always been on a compact shape and defensive discipline, before using the double pivot to dictate the tempo and his players to make the most of the chances they carve out on the break.
Pars can prevail in closely fought affair
Queen’s Park have conceded just 18 goals in 17 home matches this season, while Dunfermline have scored 26 in 17 away fixtures. Both clubs are tactically well-drilled and both could have play-off aspirations come the end of the season, so it is difficult to predict a landslide result in this contest.
However, Dunfermline’s superior league position and recent form give them the edge in this matchup, while the fact that they have dominated recent meetings between the sides all but seals an away win at attractive odds of 2.34.
