Largs boss Stuart Davidson believes his young bucks can pull off a cup shock at Cumnock after hitting ten goals in their past two games.


Thistle have scored 16 goals in their past four games, and have a good record at Townhead Park in recent seasons including a memorable 7-1 league win in 2018, and a 2-2 draw between the sides when they last met.
With only one defeat in ten games stretching back to the end of August, Stuart Davidson's troops have shown that they can be difficult to beat, and are looking for a ruthless streak by taking their chances, whilst defending well when required.
Thistle should not be fazed by the Townhead Park 3G either given their own astro turf at Largs, and while Cumnock have picked up some big wins at home against Kilwinning, Beith and Pollok, they have faltered recently with a 5-1 defeat to Formartine United in the senior Scottish Cup, and a 4-3 reversal against Troon.
Largs should also take confidence from their recent league encounter against Cumnock, Albeit they lost 2-1, Largs squandered some big opportunities in the second half, so know that if they take their chances they can achieve a major scalp.
Davidson said: "The Cumnock game is massive for us - we are going to the game with confidence.
"We know how tough a game it will be - albeit they beat us recently I thought we gave a good account of ourselves.
"I am looking forward to it and we need to perform the way we have been if not better than the last couple of games to go and get the victory.
"We should be going down there bullish - the boys are wanting to do well in the cup and the history we have in the cup lately we want another taste of that but we need to make sure we fully prepare for it this week.
"We said to the boys before the Glasgow Perthshire game that it was a big three weeks ahead with the South of Scotland Cup, the Scottish Cup, and then Glenafton away in the league (30 Oct) - and we want to do well in all of them.
"We dominated the first half at Glasgow Perthshire but only had one goal to show for it but it was important to stay patient and keep going and the two early goals in the second half gave us some confidence.
"I am not complaining as we won 5-1 but I thought there was some slackness. The performances we have been asking them to do in recent weeks have been spot on but I just felt we switched off for a 15 minute period which I wasn't happy about but overall I was happy.
"We were spot on last week defensively for 90 minutes against Blantyre so that is why I was a wee bit disappointed to concede against Glasgow Perthshire."
"Craig Forbes is big for us in midfield - he gets the tackles in and look at the desire for getting across his man to flick it in on at the left post, and then he showed the desire for a good finish for the second goal.
"Will Sewell has been on a good goalscoring run - and I was as delighted with his work-rate as his four goals he got last week. He is a natural goalscorer.
"It was good to see midfielder Taylor Lindsay get a goal at Blantyre too - he came off the bench and has been biding his time."
Thistle have injury concerns over skipper Scott Adam and midfielder Simon McBryde but the good news is that both have returned to light training, while George Sewell is out long term after his shoulder injury against Rob Roy.

The winners of tomorrow's tie between Largs and Cumnock will play Dundee North End or Newmachar at home in the fourth round of the Scottish Junior Cup.