Dunfermline Athletic carry their impressive league form into the Challenge Cup on Tuesday night with a trip to face Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic. The Round of 32 tie at New Dundas Park offers a different test for a side sitting third in the Scottish Championship on 24 points, having recorded six wins and six draws from their 13 league games this season.
Neil Lennon, the Dunfermline manager, confirmed his squad has no injury concerns ahead of the match. This follows a 5-1 league victory over Inverness CT on Saturday 31 October where Olamilekan Adams, Oli Shaw with a double, Nurudeen Abdulai and Kian Corbally all found the net. That result extended Dunfermline's unbeaten run to five matches, a sequence that includes three consecutive wins and has them on 24 points from 13 games. Their recent form reads three wins and two draws from the last five, with the victories coming against Inverness CT, a 1-0 win at Stenhousemuir on Tuesday 27 October, and a 1-0 win at Queen's Park on Saturday 24 October. The team has scored 15 goals and conceded just seven in the league, giving them a healthy goal difference of plus eight.
Opposition profile
Bonnyrigg Rose, managed by Jonny Stewart, enter the cup after a 1-1 draw with Spartans in the previous round. The Lowland League side, formed in 1881 and captained by Kerr Young, have shown an attacking threat, scoring nine goals across their last six matches. They also report a clean bill of health for the fixture.
After the cup tie, attention turns back to the Championship title race, where they sit just one point behind leaders Partick. Their next league assignment is a significant away game against second-placed Raith Rovers on Friday, November 6th.
