Queen's Park 0-4 Partick Thistle (agg 3-8): Jags advance to face Ayr United

Brian Graham opened the scoring successful the 2nd leg, having completed the scoring successful the first

Partick Thistle volition play Ayr United successful the Scottish Premiership play-off semi-final aft a broad triumph sealed an 8-3 aggregate triumph implicit Queen's Park.

Scott Tiffoney finished disconnected an intricate determination with a close-range decorativeness and Kevin Holt knocked successful the visitors' 3rd earlier half-time. Substitute Danny Mullen's precocious header completed the scoring for Thistle.

Kris Doolan's Jags stay successful contention for a top-flight instrumentality aft a five-year absence. They volition beryllium astatine location to Ayr adjacent Friday, with the 2nd limb the pursuing Friday astatine Somerset Park. The victor volition advancement to conscionable the 2nd bottommost broadside successful the Premiership.

Owen Coyle's Spiders had gone into past Friday's Championship decider with a accidental of automatic promotion but their eventual 5-3 decision by Dundee secured the rubric for the Taysiders. Defeat successful the play-offs means they miss retired connected a 3rd successive promotion and a archetypal top-flight run since 1957-58.

• Reaction & arsenic it happened

Jake Davidson, a precocious inclusion to the Queen's Park line-up pursuing Jack Thomson's wounded successful the warm-up, recovered himself cleanable done connected extremity aboriginal connected but his changeable was saved and the follow-up cleared disconnected the line.

The visitors capitalised. Kyle Turner's country picked retired Graham perfectly, the striker's changeable from the near of the container rising powerfully into the net.

Steven Lawless acceptable Jack McMillan escaped to transverse for Tiffoney successful the six-yard container and a elemental decorativeness dealt different fatal stroke to Queen's Park's hopes.

But Thistle were not done. Graham's downward header from different Turner transportation was kept retired by goalkeeper Calum Ferrie and Holt's shins forced successful the rebound.

Ferrie was called into enactment again moments later, different Graham header good saved arsenic the beleaguered location defence chased shadows.

High scoring has been the hallmark of caller Queen's Park's games and they needed 4 conscionable to unit other time.

Tiffoney had a changeable blocked earlier immoderate meaningful imaginable of a location goal, keeper David Mitchell tipping a goalbound transverse from substitute Josh McPake retired for a corner.

Malachi Boateng besides threatened, but could not nonstop his changeable connected target.

No comeback was forthcoming and, aft Aidan Fitzpatrick's changeable was saved, Mullen was connected manus to motion successful connected the enactment for Thistle's 4th and eighth wide successful the tie.