{"id":562068,"date":"2026-03-24T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562068\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:59:08","slug":"raith-rovers-0-2-partick-thistle-visitors-narrow-gap-with-st-johnstone-in-scottish-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562068\/","title":{"rendered":"Raith Rovers 0-2 Partick Thistle: Visitors narrow gap with St Johnstone in Scottish Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Partick Thistle narrowed the gap on Scottish Championship leaders St Johnstone to five points with a deserved victory over Raith Rovers at Stark&#8217;s Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The visitors were the stronger side before the break and made their pressure count five minutes before half-time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Excellent work from Aidan Fitzpatrick down the left created the opening and his cross into the six-yard box found defender Ben McPherson to fire home from close range beyond goalkeeper Josh Rae.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rovers midfielder Dylan Easton was denied by the crossbar after the break, while Rae superbly tipped wide a powerful, 25-yard Fitzpatrick&#8217;s drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Home substitute Richard Chin squandered a golden chance from six yards, slicing his effort straight at the goalkeeper, before winger Fitzpatrick sealed the points by firing home from 10 yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thistle host Ross County on Friday night knowing a win will narrow the gap further before their title rivals face Queen&#8217;s Park the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Partick Thistle narrowed the gap on Scottish Championship leaders St Johnstone to five points with a deserved victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-562068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}