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Morton host Raith Rovers in a regularly scheduled Tuesday-nighter. Raith are second in the division with 20 points, Morton tenth with 8. Raith won the first match 3 - 2 at Stark's Park on August 12th.
Morton have held tenth place for four weeks, but they are only five points out of fourth. They can leap over Inverness CT with a win or a draw tonight.
Morton have scored nine goals in league play: two in the first half and seven in the second half.
They have surrendered only one goal this month, to Reece Lyon of Kelty Hearts.
Morton have fared better in the Renfrewshire Cup than Raith have in the Fife one. (See A below.)
Raith have had six winning seasons the past decade, Morton four. (See B below.)
Morton are off to their second-worst start in the league of the past ten years. (See C below.)
[Morton 1 - 2 Raith. Goal by Iain Wilson.]
The other Championship matches:
Airdrieonians (4th) [0 - 2] Dundee United (1st)*
* A Plenty of Nothing Championship League Cup Round Two match.
Partick Thistle (3rd) [2 - 2] Ayr United (6th)
Queen's Park and Arbroath played their fixture weeks ago. Dunfermline and ICT have moved theirs to November 18.
Other matches:
The Canadian national women's team play a friendly against Brazil at the Wanderers Grounds today. This is one of Christine Sinclair's last games with the national squad. [Canada 2 - 0 Brazil]
Celtic B [3 - 0] Linlithgow Rose (tomorrow)
African Football League, SF, second leg (tomorrow):
ES Tunis [1 - 0] Wydad AC
[The semifinal ends 1 - 1 on aggregate. Wydad win on PK and advance to the final.]
A) Rank the 2023-24 Championship clubs by the number of times they've won their local cup:
52 Morton (Renfrewshire Cup)
39.5 Raith Rovers (Fife Cup)
31.5 Dunfermline Athletic (Fife Cup)
26 Ayr United (Ayrshire Cup)
21 Dundee United (Forfarshire Cup)
20 Arbroath (Forfarshire Cup)
7 Partick Thistle (Glasgow Cup)
7 Inverness CT (Inverness Cup)
4 Queen's Park (Glasgow Cup)
2 Airdrieonians (North Lanarkshire Cup)
B) And by recent winning seasons and losing seasons:
22/3 21/2 20/1 19/0 18/9 17/8 16/7 15/6 14/5 13/4
Inverness CT W W W W W W L E W W
Dundee Utd L L L W W W W L W W
Queen's Park W W W W L L L W W L
Raith Rovers L W W W W W L W L L
Airdrieonians W W W W L L E L W L
Arbroath L W L E W W W L W L
Dunfermline W L W L L W E W L W
Ayr Utd W L L W W W L W L L
Morton W L L L L W W L W L
Partick Thistle W W W L L L L L L L
W = more wins than losses, regardless of table position; E = even wins and losses
C) Morton's first nine league results, the past decade:
2023-24 WLLLDLLDW 8 points (Imrie)
2022-23 DWLDWLLLW 11 points (Imrie)
2021-22 DWLLLLDDL 6 points (McPherson)
2020-21 WLWLDLWWD 14 points (Hopkin/McElhone)
2019-20 LWWLLWLDL 10 points (Hopkin)
2018-19 DWWLDDLDW 13 points (McKinnon/Johansson)
2017-18 DWDLWWLLW 14 points (Duffy)
2016-17 DDDLLWLWW 12 points (Duffy)
2015-16 DLDWWDDLL 10 points (Duffy)
2014-15 LWWLWWLLW 15 points (Duffy)