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00:00Thanks Jonathan, how do you possibly follow the drama of the quarter-final?
00:07Well, Parthic Thistle and Livingston are about to give it a go as they do battle for a fifth time this season.
00:14Fifteen points separated them in the final championship table, but that goes out the window tonight in this repeat of the 2018 play-off final.
00:30Glorious evening in the northwest of Glasgow, and a quick turnaround as we know for Thistle, but they are buoyed by the returning Dan O'Reilly and Logan Chalmers, albeit those are partly offset by the loss of Kyle Turner. Ben Stanwy drops to the bench.
00:49The living manager, David Martindale, wasn't too disappointed by the performance in the repeat by Thistle on the final day of the league campaign, which is reflected by a selection of exactly the same starting XI.
01:05Macaulay Tate was the unfortunate own goal scorer, but has had a terrific season on loan from Haarx.
01:10Well, after the euphoria of a magnificent debut, Jamie Lowe's reward for that assured performance is another start, and he'll be hoping to make another few quid from Brian Graham, no doubt, this evening.
01:33Scott Pittman has more or less seen it all in his 11 seasons at Levy.
01:40The record appearance holder helped relegate Thistle seven years ago.
01:47John Robertson takes charge of this one.
01:49Both sides in their change kits, as you can see, Thistle in their all lilac outfit, Levy all black.
02:07And we're all set once more.
02:10The quarterfinal first leg, last Tuesday wasn't a classic in all honesty, a little cagey, bobbly pitch, and a dearth of chances.
02:22Michael Stewart, are you going to promise us better this evening?
02:25No, because I was predicting that Ayr would have enough to see it through on Friday, so predictions are worthless, but certainly if we can get a bit more of the entertainment and the drama that we had on Friday night at Somerset, then it should make for a good one here tonight as well.
02:55And at the moment, Brian Graham gets it back to Macbeth, here's Ban again, Ashcroft with the headband back in place.
03:09Forward for Meg Watt.
03:15Here's O'Reilly having recovered from that head, knocked it, he suffered here last week.
03:21Kept him out of Friday's game.
03:42Thistle's seen more of the ball in these early stages.
03:51Ashcroft is a percentage ball forward, but it's going to run through to Prior, who immediately bows it out cleverly to Stephen Kelly.
04:04Can't find Montano, though.
04:07And Ashcroft combined to get it up towards Graham.
04:10There's been a few good battles between Brian Graham and Ryan McGowan in particular, and these sides are met over the course of the season.
04:22Expect no different tonight.
04:23There's Brandon in it right back.
04:38Tonight's played a lot of the season in the sitting midfield role, but very comfortable.
04:43Full back, that's a good ball in.
04:46Comes to Kelly, important challenge.
04:48Chance might still be there for Montano.
04:50It's O'Reilly puts his head in the way, and Pittman's shot is blocked by Vanaghan.
04:55A good flurry there for the visitors.
04:58Well, there's a gaping hole on the edge of the box for Partick Thistle that Kelly was able to fill.
05:05As this ball comes out, you can see the space he's got there.
05:09Eventually, Logan Chalmers does very well to get back in and nick it off.
05:13And it starts pinballing about.
05:15Partick Thistle managed to get enough bodies in there.
05:19Ashcroft gets his head to that one.
05:22Muir heads.
05:25Loops it back into the area.
05:27Megua climbs above Montano, but it's still not clear.
05:30Ashcroft thumps it further forwards.
05:33Offside flag is up.
05:48Free kick to the home side.
05:51It was a draw between these two the last time they met at Fairhill.
05:59It was back in February, one apiece.
06:02The two strikers, Brian Graham and Robbie Muirhead, have been so reliable over the course of the season.
06:09They were the goal-getters that day.
06:11And it was a nil-nil back in October here as well.
06:18As Wilson, there's a bit of defending to do there.
06:20Does it well.
06:20Well, I mean, when you look at the centre-half pairing, Wilson and McGowan, plenty of top-flight experience and top-flight quality, to be honest.
06:38And they're going to have to be at their game.
06:40Chalmers, he's got the better of Fraser, but helped out there by Tate.
06:50Beth, slightly heavy touch, and he took a sore one.
06:54Well,
06:56I don't know if he stopped it, giving a free kick to Partick Thistle, which it might well have been, but
07:00they were continuing possession, a decent area.
07:03Yeah, a little bit bizarre, because Don Robertson was waiting for a fair bit, you know, to play on.
07:13And then Partick Thistle were in possession.
07:18Macbeth is going down holding his, but he's the one that looks like he stood on top of Montaigneau there.
07:25It's bizarre.
07:26Obviously, the ball comes to Crawford before the referee's blowing his whistle for the free kick.
07:31Yeah, but arguably, it should have been a free kick to anyone, probably Livy, but Thistle will try and take advantage of that.
07:38It's a loopy one from Chalmers.
07:42You've been mowing a couple of those type of deliveries over the last few days, Michael, and that was not a great one from Chalmers.
07:53No, it was far too much heightening.
07:54When you're playing a ball like that, it just gives the goalkeeper a far better chance of being able to come and collect.
08:01Smith getting the free kick there, a right call from the referee.
08:08Meg were just diving in, committing the full.
08:13Free kick in a much of a mirror image situation to the one that Thistle had just a moment or two ago.
08:20This one's rolled down the line, though.
08:28Then it's sent into the box, Ashcroft, as per usual, meets it.
08:34What helps it on?
08:35Panikin's done well against Fraser.
08:42Chalmers looking to test the pace here of Pittman.
08:45Makes a good challenge, holds him up for now, but Chalmers still has it.
08:49Picks it in, looking for Crawford.
08:51Good defending.
08:52Mike Brandon, who came across and read the danger and dealt with it.
08:55He did deal with that very well, because we were right in line with that.
09:02It looked as if Chalmers had just weighted it perfectly in behind.
09:07A couple of eight through Brandon, Riley in the way.
09:18Squeezes it forward for Fitzpatrick.
09:26Still in play, Lowe's dispossessed.
09:31Livingston come forward through Kelly.
09:33Great challenge from Ashcroft.
09:39Panikin holds on to it.
09:41Chalmers up towards Graham now.
09:44That was the first of those tussles I was talking about.
09:47And it goes the way of Brian Graham in the sense that he gets the free kick.
09:51And a disdainful look from McGowan towards the referee.
09:57Not quite sure what for.
09:59He had three nibbles attempts at it.
10:00Don't think he touched the ball in any of them.
10:02Well, maybe the last one.
10:05But it was a free kick before that.
10:12Relegated last season by St Johnston.
10:14Would love to make the lead back up to the top flight.
10:18McGowan.
10:19There's O'Reilly.
10:22There's this forward up towards Mago.
10:24It gets the header down.
10:26That'll be news to St Johnston supporters there, Al.
10:28Yeah, I've actually absolutely no idea where I get from.
10:33Why I said that.
10:39I can only be grateful that you're here to correct me in front of the nation.
10:45It's happened a couple of times for Ryan.
10:51I'm sure he's not wanting a third one to add to the list.
10:53No, he's not.
10:55It's been a decent enough start to the game.
11:22Both sides looking to get forward, as Robbie Fraser is doing here for Levy.
11:30And Montano just won't quite latch on to that.
11:32Almost right in behind Megua there.
11:39Just imagine the flickies boot to get a stop on it.
11:42It looked as if he'd found the perfect angle, Robbie Fraser,
11:46to get that ball inside the wing back.
11:50And had he been able to get it past him then,
11:52Montano, he's running through on goal.
11:54Montano, he's running through on goal.
12:24He's running up, but outstead Macbeth.
12:28Stopping Lewis Smith in his tracks.
12:35Crawford dragged to the ground there.
12:36That was a good play from Robbie Crawford, seeing the space and driving into it.
12:46Levy players desperately trying to get back in and shut things off.
12:52Jamie Brandon committing the foul in the end.
12:54But just before that, it was good play from Levy, Ryan McGowan.
12:58It looked as if he was going to hit a long crossfield ball,
13:00and he just fizzed it into the feet of Lewis Smith.
13:04He was able to run at that back line.
13:06I just wondered whether he could have got the strike away earlier.
13:08There's Murad, trying to slip that through for Smith.
13:13Smith on the cover.
13:14There's a lot of space here for Fraser and Montano.
13:29It's good football from Levy as Tate picks up, looking to make amends for that own goal
13:43that did for Levy's hopes of clawing back Falkirk last Friday.
13:50Home fans doing their bit.
14:08A huge support down to Somerset, and they're rewarded for it.
14:14It was great, it seems, wasn't it?
14:16To see that big travel and support.
14:20Joyous at the goals going in at the end of the game.
14:26It's what you want to see in football.
14:28The emotion of it.
14:30It's what the playoffs have brought big time.
14:33The drama and the excitement for the supporters.
14:40Even when the game perhaps isn't at the best,
14:42there's always going to be the drama.
14:44But having said that, that game on Friday was far better
14:47than the first leg here on the last week.
14:51Derren struggling to keep that in, didn't manage to do so.
15:08The flag raised by the assistants.
15:11Hopefully they're getting spoken to us, picked up those instructions.
15:33I'm sure Thistle were intending that.
15:36It's Muirhead, well challenged by Meg Watt.
15:41To get that just right, that's going out for a Levinson throw.
15:44That could have been worse though.
15:45It was wasteful from the Thistle throwing.
15:47Yeah, it was.
15:52No question of that.
15:56Unforced errors like that, you just don't want to be
15:59committing too many of them.
16:01Otherwise, you're going to get punished.
16:03Comfortably taken by Mitchel, he's near post.
16:18Libby had been a four-game winning run prior to that last day defeat by Thistle.
16:48That had taken him back into contention for the title.
16:53With Falkirk just having stumbled prior to that.
16:59Eventually seeing it out.
17:02Montagnu, was he caught there by Macbeth?
17:04Went down as if he was, but the referee saw nothing amiss.
17:09It's another wayward pass, but Woh manages to keep that in.
17:13Montagnu is back on his feet, as you can see at the bottom of your screen.
17:16Well, unless a replay shows anything different, it looked pretty clear-cut that it was a free kick there.
17:31Macbeth into the feet of Chalmers, and back to Graham, who tries to loft it over for Crawford,
17:37who's making some good runs into the penalty area, but again, the ball doesn't quite reach him.
17:46Yeah, but he's tracked well there by Macaulay Tate.
17:49Just doing the other side of the game for midfielders, making sure that you're tracking runners.
17:57You can see Danny Wilson was grateful for that as well.
18:01He's stepping up into the midfield, trying to keep tight with his man, so the midfielder's got to go in behind with the runner.
18:11They did it well.
18:12Montagnu looking to get the better of Macbeth.
18:15He's been penalised as Montagnu.
18:17Well, it did look, just as he'd knocked that, as if he was going to get round the other side of him,
18:32but you've got to say, Macbeth defends that situation really quite well.
18:39He does end up having a pull at him there, didn't he, as Macbeth put the arm out to hold him off.
18:44It was this day's last season that Thistle fell, losing in penalties to Wraith Rovers up at Stars Park.
19:14There's Brandon.
19:29Pull first to it.
19:31Played it off, Pittman as well.
19:44From Prior to deal with, which he does, finds Fraser and O'Kelly.
20:03Chased out by Graham.
20:05Olivia worked up well, and Brandon motors forward, away from Crawford, and out to Smith.
20:20Stepping inside onto the left foot, before into the penalty area it comes, and Macbeth has done well again.
20:26Although, Moorhead's stayed down.
20:34Some good physical battles at either end, involving the central defenders and main strikers.
20:41Livy come again, Smith for Brandon.
20:50He cuts that back, he was looking, I think, for Pittman, who couldn't quite make up the yards.
20:56Well, it's that battle between him and Brian Graham again.
21:11Two experienced players, does well.
21:17Brian Graham's touched just a little bit loose, and Brian McGowan's able to get in front of him.
21:22I think it's a duel that the two of them will look forward to.
21:30I think they're both enjoying it as well.
21:35Stephen Cayley then lining up the free kick.
21:39Ashcroft, first contact again.
21:47No free kick.
21:48Thistle leaving it to each other.
21:53Dan O'Reilly, the last thing he needs is another head knock, but he's okay on this occasion.
21:57It's been as tight as we were probably expecting thus far, hasn't it?
22:20Yeah, it has.
22:24I mean, it just seems like both sides are trying to suss each other out.
22:31Trouble for the goalkeepers has been very limited so far, but I wouldn't say it's been poor.
22:38It's definitely been some good play, but they need to obviously start to put some pressure on the defences and the goalkeepers and start working them.
22:48That was the big thing for United on Friday, that this man on the ball, David Mitchell, he had nothing to do.
22:56He just simply did not pose any questions of him.
23:00That certainly hurt Scott Brown, didn't it?
23:04He was massively frustrated at that.
23:09As you say, you're not going to win a play-off, you're not going to win any football match if you're not putting shots in on goal.
23:16I'm sure he's still quietly fizzing away, perhaps watching this rather than taking part in it.
24:00That's Fraser now trying to get it through for Montagno,
24:06it's well defended by Megua.
24:10Wily forwards.
24:12A break for Crawford who sweeps out to Megua.
24:16He enjoys getting forward, Montagno trying to get back at him
24:20as Megua looks to cut across him and hold him off when he's done that well.
24:24And then he just can't get the better of Danny Wilson
24:27who shows his experience while just standing up and dispossessing Megua.
24:33He's a defender and a player who's got great composure, Danny Wilson.
24:40Not somebody you would say has ever been blessed with blistering pace
24:44but he understands the game, he reads it and with that experience
24:48he knows exactly where to be.
24:52That was just another example of it.
24:54Sliding across, never panicking.
24:57Just a lovely bit of composure to turn away from the pressure and keep the ball.
25:03Crawford seems to be caught there.
25:04But
25:08play allowed to continue as Chalmers brings Thistle forwards.
25:10Crawford seems to be caught there.
25:15Crawford seems to be caught there, but play allowed to continue as
25:22Chalmers brings Thistle forwards.
25:23Crawford seems to be caught there, but play allowed to continue
25:35as Chalmers brings Thistle forwards.
25:40No chance Graham is ever going to latch on to that one.
25:44Fraser and Kelly tidy up, but that's untidy from McGowan,
25:48and now Chalmers with another opportunity.
25:51Comfortable for Prior at his near post in the end.
25:56He shouldn't really have had the chance.
25:59No, he shouldn't have. This is very poor from Ryan McGowan.
26:03Just looks like he's caught in two minds.
26:05The ball's stuck under his feet as well, but Logan Chalmers there on his right foot.
26:10I think he should be just trying to cut it back into an area.
26:13You can see Robbie Crawford was making the run in there.
26:15He was never ever going to be able to trouble Prior with his right boot
26:19from the tight angle.
26:29Yellow guards here. First of the game.
26:33Lovely little nutmeg there.
26:47From Lewis Smith and then the jersey's getting pulled.
26:49Not great for Parik Thistle.
27:01Young Jimmy Lowe picking up a yellow card in the early stages of the game.
27:05Also gives Livingston this free kick, which is well won by Wilson unchallenged,
27:19but Mitchell able to claim it and immediately fire it forward.
27:22Looking for Chalmers.
27:24That's great defensive work from Pittman.
27:30He's done it before as well in that area.
27:34Tracking back.
27:38Bursting a gut to make sure that Logan Chalmers is not running on the ball and in on goal.
27:42Credit to David Mitchell as well.
27:45I love to see that.
27:46The goalkeeper being alert and active as soon as he's won the ball.
27:50He's looking at release one of his teammates up the park.
27:54He's got caught on his heels there by Montano.
27:57This is Muirheads.
28:13Brandon just lets that run across him, Fitzpatrick's with him.
28:16Fitzpatrick and Thistle get the decision.
28:22There's a few Platic fans in front of us gesturing for the yellow card.
28:29You can sort of understand the point they're making as well here.
28:33Fitzpatrick does really well.
28:35Brandon's pulling away at him.
28:37Oh, Koffer's done brilliantly to keep that in now.
28:39Can he fight?
28:40Graham!
28:45Well, he backed him to pull that off.
28:47It's a tricky skill, but terrific work.
28:51Terrific work from Crawford, this.
28:53Yep.
28:54Brilliant.
28:59Very difficult with the left boot as well.
29:01As you said, great play from Crawford to show the desire to make sure that ball does not go out.
29:08And then picking out Brian Graham there.
29:17Montano is asking for a free kick in again, I think he's got a case, but Don Robertson just letting that go.
29:25We were certainly bemoaning the stop-start nature of the game last Tuesday, so I guess we should applaud the referee for trying to let it flow when possible, but I'm not sure Montano necessarily agrees.
29:40The other thing that was apparent last week is that the park is so lively.
29:45I mean, you see it bouncing around, it's difficult for the players to drive and get the ball under control.
29:50That's going to be taken out by Brandon, and that's going to be a yellow card.
30:00Don Robertson saying he doesn't need the advice of the official players to dish that one out.
30:06Well, there wasn't a great deal on that one.
30:27Yes, perhaps a free kick, but clearly it's just on the back of the foul and the free kick that was given away a couple of minutes.
30:35A couple of minutes ago that Jamie Brandon was perhaps fortunate to get away with in the first place.
30:42Fitzpatrick, cool, trying to fire this into the penalty area, bring about the opening goal.
30:50Far too close to Prior who needed a couple of goes at it.
30:55See, there's the difference from what we saw with David Mitchell at the other end when he got the ball, he was wanting to go and get the ball out to his teammates quickly.
31:02Prior there, he eventually throws it to Robbie Fraser and he could have done it easy ten seconds before.
31:09Instead, he waits and Parik Thistle have got all their bodies back in a defensive unit.
31:14That's McGowan forwards over Muirhead and all the way through to the Thistlekeeper.
31:32That's Croft looking over the top for Fitzpatrick, it's a brilliant ball, Fitzpatrick takes it down well, Brandon with him.
31:44Back into Graham.
31:47Here's Crawford.
31:48Here's Crawford, kind of wriggle between a couple of challenges.
31:53That is not far away from a former Libby man.
32:00Well he does brilliantly, I mean first of all, Fitzpatrick does great, Brandon's got to be careful with his challenge but look at the footwork there from Crawford.
32:09Just wonder, is he trying to have the strike or is he just trying to play it across the face of the goal, I'm not sure.
32:15You can see from that last angle that Prior's got it covered anyway but it's another moment for Partick Thistle to build the momentum.
32:27A few minutes here where it feels like they're just getting their noses in front in the ascendancy at the moment.
32:37They're read by McBeth, into the feet of Brian Greer, poor touch from him, Watson not a great pass back Prior, there just in the head of Chalmers.
32:49Now Livy pick up.
32:52Scott Pittman in a good position here, the drive at the Thistle back line, now it's Montano.
32:59Too much on the cross, it's a good position.
33:04It was a very good position.
33:06I just think it was perhaps O'Reilly on the far side, here's playing Montano, you can see it there, he's onside.
33:12He just doesn't get it cut back enough, you can see the frustration from Muirhead there.
33:18If he'd just got the angle better and got the weight right, Muirhead could have been stepping onto that to have a strike on target.
33:27That was the danger of O'Reilly dropping far deeper than the rest of the Partick Thistle defence, playing Montano onside.
33:37Fortunately for him, nothing comes from it.
33:41Ashcroft goes long.
33:51Won by Wilson.
33:53Banigan will pick up though.
33:55A bit of room to move into here.
33:59Can't get it beyond McGowan, Banigan though.
34:03Good first-time ball out to Meigua.
34:07Up against Fraser here, just needs half a yard.
34:11Can't find it.
34:13More live football coming up on BBC Alipa tomorrow at 10-6.
34:28Massive game in the SWPL with the leaders, Hibbs at home to Celtic.
34:32And indeed, after that, they've got the championship playoff final, first leg, Cove Rangers at home to ninth in the championship.
34:46Airdreonians, first leg of that, also live on BBC Alipa.
34:50Patrick's not able to get that forward, now he's got it back.
35:15He's looking for Chalmers, it is offside.
35:19You can just see Chalmers beyond the defenders there as that ball's getting clipped in.
35:31Well off.
35:33Straightforward one for the assistant.
35:39He's got a bit of a roving role tonight, Logan Chalmers, as he thinks that one forward, looking for Crawford.
35:51McGowan covers the danger.
35:55He's going to be talking to him for kicking that ball back onto the field there.
36:07He's going to be talking to him for him, here's what he's going to do.
36:24Come on.
36:25Go, go, go, go!
36:55Just a free kick on the halfway line.
37:11Just three defeats in, 13 overall for Mark Wilson.
37:15Since taking on that co-manager role with Brian Graham.
37:19It's not a bad job application.
37:22Look at that ball bouncing about.
37:27I mean, it really is precarious at times when you're trying to knock the ball around.
37:33And it just bottling up so lively.
37:37You know, when you're trying to play, especially in those defensive areas.
37:40It can be, as I said, pretty precarious.
37:45And it almost, almost led to Patrick Thistle being able to close them right down.
37:52So here's a question.
37:54Would you rather see football played on a park like that,
37:59but grass, or a good artificial surface?
38:03Yeah, it was a false argument.
38:08Why?
38:12I don't see many good assertive parks, I'll be honest.
38:17Having said that, Falkirk, I think that's not a bad surface.
38:20This is difficult for the players, as you can see.
38:30They're won by Lowe, Crawford, for Fitzpatrick.
38:45Not a bad first touch, second, not what he intended.
38:52Gathered by Prior.
38:53Well, Patrick Thistle are definitely the ones that are on top at the moment.
39:02They need to convert some of that pressure into goals on the scoreboard.
39:11They need to start by troubling the goalkeeper.
39:14I'm trying to remember, I don't think we've had a shot on target so far by either side.
39:19Well, Chalmers had the one that was really comfortably taken by Prior.
39:22He's near post.
39:25I mean, was it on target?
39:28It might have been even going over.
39:29Yeah, I know the one you're talking about now, but yes, I mean, that's the extent of it.
39:33I think that in itself shows you how little action there's been in terms of for the goalkeepers.
39:42David Mitchell certainly had nothing to do, a couple have gone wide for Thistle, Ryan Graham's flick and Robbie Crawford's drive.
39:54That's a poor challenge from Barragan.
39:56I was thinking my eyes were deceiving me.
40:22But I mean, Stuart Banigum was apologising as well.
40:28I mean, the game's changed.
40:30I appreciate that, but he's not high in terms of having made contact with him.
40:36He's just slid in.
40:39I don't think that's a bad tackle.
40:41It's questionable whether it's a free kick personally, but I think in the modern game, yes, but certainly not a bad challenge.
40:47Montano's done well to squeeze that through for Fraser.
40:54Promising here for Livy.
40:56Can he pick someone out?
40:57He can!
40:59The opening goal!
41:00It's the old head of Scott Pittman, who did the damage against Thistle seven years ago.
41:07And he's got the opening goal here tonight.
41:14Well, how often over the years have you seen Scott Pittman timing a run into the box and getting on the end of something?
41:23And he's done it again here tonight.
41:25We were just talking about how David Mitchell's had nothing to do.
41:28There's not a great deal he could do with this.
41:29But it's just getting in behind the defence.
41:32And then once you're there, the defenders are facing their own goal.
41:35And it's panic stations.
41:37It's a good finish.
41:39Through the legs of Macbeth.
41:42Fraser, you see he's lifting his head.
41:44Picks him out brilliantly.
41:45That's a really good goal from Livingston.
41:48Good support there from Fraser.
41:51Constantly looking to try and pick someone out.
41:54And he lays it on a plate for Pittman.
41:56Slam it into the back of the net.
41:57Young Jimmy Lowe just couldn't get round quick enough to block him off.
42:03It is a classic Scott Pittman goal.
42:06And it's his seventh of the season.
42:10Just at that stage, just at that stage, I'll wear.
42:13Patrick Thistle were definitely on top.
42:16But it is the classic scenario in football.
42:20If you're on top and you don't convert,
42:24inevitably,
42:24your opposition's going to sucker punch you.
42:36It was well crafted as well.
42:38Montano down the line for Fraser.
42:41Fraser had the composure
42:44and the ability to
42:46spot the run of Pittman
42:48and picked him out.
42:49And Pittman did the rest.
42:51His 51st goal
42:52for the club
42:54in his 426th appearance.
43:00Steve played for Thistle
43:02back in the 90s.
43:04But Scott Pittman
43:05has once again
43:06done the business against them.
43:08and it was a very good thing for
43:10to see the goal.
43:11It's not too easy to do.
43:12It's not too easy to do.
43:12It's not too easy to do.
43:15It's not too easy to do.
43:45He's just taking the sting out of the game, having got that sucker punch of a goal.
43:56Good awareness of where Megua was, and he finds Chalmers, this is looking to reply before the interval.
44:13Good challenge there by Wilson, Montanio there ahead of Chalmers.
44:23Fraser who's also been a good loan acquisition from Rangers for Livy.
44:28Both he and Tate, I think, when I've seen them, don't know if they've been valuable additions, and that is a terrible back pass that Montanio denied.
44:43And on the rebound, off the line from Ashcroft, as Kelly look to punish Thistle further.
44:52That's a free kick.
44:56Who's Don Robertson not seen that?
44:59Megua wipes young Robbie Fraser out there.
45:02But you could just see that unfolding, couldn't you?
45:07You just knew those two defenders were not comfortable with the position they'd found themselves in, and there was never going to be enough on the header.
45:20Montanio's passed up a gilt-edged opportunity there, I've got to be honest.
45:23Well, Livyston, having barely troubled the Thistle goal, until three or four minutes ago.
45:42They've now scored, and perhaps they've scored a second.
45:53We can see O'Reilly and Lowe getting each other's weight.
46:15Eventually, Ashcroft clearing it off the line.
46:17I mean, for me, Dan O'Reilly is the more experienced player.
46:21But he needs to be coming across and dealing with that.
46:25Not just because he's a little bit more experienced, but also because he's in a far greater position,
46:29and he can see where the clear area is, and he's facing up the park.
46:36That would have been a heart-and-mouth scenario for young Jamie Lowe.
46:42The goalkeeper bailed him out.
46:51That's a free kick for Muirhead's challenging O'Reilly.
47:00O'Reilly, for Lowe.
47:19Slides it forward for Fitzpatrick, well-challenged by McGowan.
47:26Thistle in a hurry, and there's one minute of added on time.
47:29Here's O'Reilly.
47:53Crawford's unable to bring that under control or find a teammate.
48:02There's a half-time whistle, and it's that man who has made the difference in this first period,
48:19much to the delight of the few hundred travelling living fans with an archetypal Scott Pittman goal.
48:29Christian Montano should have added to it, but he couldn't loft the ball over David Mitchell.
48:34Logan Chalmers is really the only player to have hit the target for Thistle, and even then, it never troubled Jérôme Prior.
48:42And so Mark Wilson has a bit of work to do at half-time in this first leg of the play-off semi-final.
48:50It is part of Thistle 0, Livingston 1.