10th May 2014 Partick Thistle 2 Ross County 3 (SPFL Premiership - game 38)

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36y, 9m, 27d	Alan Archibald	Derek Adams

Scott Fox; Gabriel Piccolo; Chris Erskine
Paul Gallacher; Aaron Taylor-Sinclair; Stuart Bannigan

Lyle Taylor (1-2, 51 mins); George Moncur (2-2, 73 mins)		Jordan Slew (0-1, 22 mins); Yoann Arquin (0-2, 48 mins); James Craigen (2-3, og 77 mins)
Christie Elliott (1-2, 51 mins); Lyle Taylor (2-2, 73 mins)		Yoann Arquin (0-1, 22 mins); Graham Carey (0-2, 48 mins); Melvin de Leeuw (2-3, 77 mins)
Conrad Balatoni; Kallum Higginbotham		Graham Carey; Filip Kiss

Scott Fox (Paul Gallacher, 44 mins); Gabriel Piccolo (Steven Lawless, HT); Chris Erskine (George Moncur, 68 mins)		Yoann Arquin (Melvin de Leeuw, 69 mins); Jordan Slew (Darren Maatsen, 79 mins); Alex Cooper (Marc Klok, 89 mins)

26y, 10m, 12d	Scott Fox	Mark Brown
25y, 6m, 24d	Jordan McMillan	Erik Cikos
33y, 5m, 1d	Lee Mair	Ben Gordon
23y, 3m, 13d	Conrad Balatoni	Scott Boyd former Jag
24y, 6m, 25d	Gabriel Piccolo	Filip Kiss
19y, 10m, 8d	Gary Fraser	Rocco Quinn
23y, 1m, 12d	James Craigen	Alex Cooper
27y, 3m, 2d	Chris Erskine	Graham Carey
24y, 1m, 11d	Lyle Taylor	Jordan Slew
22y, 11m, 14d	Christie Elliott	Yoann Arquin
24y, 10m, 25d	Kallum Higginbotham	Yann Songo'o

25y, 0m, 28d

34y, 8m, 24d	Paul Gallacher	Michael Fraser
23y, 0m, 28d	Steven Lawless	Darren Maatsen
19y, 10m, 13d	Dale Keenan	Melvin de Leeuw
18y, 5m, 18d	Declan McDaid	Marc Klok
19y, 3m, 3d	Simón Colina	Brian McLean
19y, 8m, 4d	David Wilson [ii]	Tony Dingwall
20y, 8m, 22d	George Moncur	Evangelos Oikonomou

TTA report

A low drive (22) put County ahead as a much-changed Thistle side struggled defensively. Time wasting and defence in depth started on the half hour. Fox was taken off injured (44) and a free header (48) made it 2-0. Taylor headed in (51) and Moncur levelled (73) but a Craigen OG (77) won it.

Media report

10-May-2014, bbc.com

Ross County won their final Scottish Premiership match of the season, after Partick Thistle had fought back from two down. Jordan Slew's first goal for County gave the visitors the lead and Yoann Arquin headed their second just after the break. Lyle Taylor nodded in to reduce Thistle's deficit and then set up George Moncur for the equaliser. But Melvin de Leeuw's strike secured victory for Derek Adams' side. With both sides having secured top-flight safety in midweek, the result served only to confirm their final positions in the league. County finish seventh, three places above Thistle.

Having shed the pressure of trying to avoid the play-off spot, these sides served up an enthralling end-of-season encounter. Slew dragged an effort wide in 16 minutes after some neat footwork in the area, and four minutes later he finally broke his duck for the Dingwall men. The on-loan Blackburn Rovers striker collected an Arquin pass, beat Conrad Balatoni and then fired low past Scott Fox. Just before the break, County midfielder Alex Cooper tested Fox with a drive from distance which the Partick keeper palmed up into the air. As the ball dropped, Slew headed off the post and collided with Fox, and while the County man escaped with a bandaged wrist, the Jags goalkeeper had to go off, with Paul Gallacher brought on.

The visitors doubled their lead three minutes after the interval, as Arquin rose to power home a header from Graham Carey's free-kick. Taylor then sparked Jags' revival, making full use of a few yards of space in the area to head past Mark Brown from Christie Elliott's delivery. The goalscorer turned provider as the hosts hauled themselves level in 73 minutes. He collected a Kallum Higginbotham pass and produced a clever back heel for Moncur, who drilled the ball beyond Brown. Staggies edged ahead again four minutes later, though. Dutchman De Leeuw turned inside Taylor and had a dig that took a deflection off James Craigen and flew past Gallacher. Partick piled forward late on in search of an equaliser but the Staggies stood strong to ensure they headed north with all three points.

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