William Hill Scottish Cup 3rd Round replay, Meadowbank Stadium, Wednesday 7th December 2016
Edinburgh City 0
East Fife 1 (Kane 55’)
Man of the Match: Kyle Wilkie
East Fife XI: Goodfellow, Mercer, Slattery, Kane, Page, Kerr, Brown, Insall (Austin 87’), Smith, Wilkie, Robinson (Wallace 67’)
Subs Not Used: Hurst, Mutch
Booked: None
Edinburgh City XI: Stobie, Caddow, Dunsmore, Harrison, Laird, Muhsin (See 71’), McFarland (McConnell 71’), Gair, Allum, Guthrie (Cummings 71’), Mbu
Subs Not Used: Dunn, Porteous, Donaldson, Antell
Booked: Harrison
Referee: David Lowe
Attendance: 397
East Fife got back to winning ways with a 1-0 win over Edinburgh City in the William Hill Scottish Cup 3rd round replay. East Fife made two changes to the team that drew with Edinburgh in the original tie with Pat Slattery and Jason Kerr replacing Mark Lamont and Gary Naysmith who departed for Queen of the South earlier in the week.
As with the original tie the game took a long time to get going with both teams reduced to long-range efforts in the first 20 minutes. The visitors should have taken the lead on 24 minutes when Smith got to the by-line and whipped in a cross from the left but Robinson could only head over from a couple of yards. Insall then had a shot blocked on the line after Page headed down Robinson’s corner. Against the run of play, Edinburgh were presented with a glorious chance to take the lead when the East Fife defence switched off allowing Allum to latched onto a long ball but his lob over Goodfellow was easily swept up by Kerr.
Our William Hill Scottish Cup 3rd round replay with Edinburgh City will now take place on Monday, 5th December at Meadowbank Stadium with a 7.45pm kick off.
Due to the re-scheduling of our Scottish Cup replay with Edinburgh City, Saturday's friendly against Berwick Rangers has been called off.
The club have agreed terms with Queen of the South FC for Gary Naysmith and Dougie Anderson to move on as successful candidates for the vacant positions at Palmerston. Both Gary and Dougie will remain in post for the Scottish Cup tie at Edinburgh City. Although disappointed to be losing a highly successful and popular duo, everyone at East Fife Football Club would like to thank Gary and Dougie for all their efforts, particularly in bringing the SPFL 2 league championship to Bayview Stadium last season, and would like to wish them all the very best for the future.