Dunfermline Athletic 3
Ayr United 0
League (League One)
Dunfermline Athletic |
3 - 0 |
Ayr United |
 |
League (League One) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
| None. | None. |
| Team Managers | |
| John Hughes |
Jim Duffy |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
1 Fon Williams 2 Comrie 33 Connolly 13 Gaspuitis 3 Edwards 6 MacDonald 26 Todd 17 Dorrans 23 Thomas 11 Dow 14 McCann |
Aiden McAdams .1 Markus Fjortoft .23 Patrick Reading .3 Jack Baird .15 Jordan Houston .2 Joseph Chalmers .18 Daire OConnor .10 Aaron Muirhead .4 Andy Murdoch .6 Mark McKenzie .22 Jonathan Afolabi .24 |
| Bench | |
|
5 Graham 7 O'Hara 8 Kennedy 9 Wighton 10 Todorov 18 Allan 29 Mehmet |
Charlie Albinson .21 Sean McGinty .5 Steven Bradley .16 James Maxwell .14 Nick McAllister .17 Tomi Adeloye .9 Cameron Salkeld .11 |
| Substitutions | |
| None. |
Cameron Salkeld for Daire OConnor (70) James Maxwell for Joseph Chalmers (70) Steven Bradley for Mark McKenzie (83) |
| Cautions | |
| None. |
Markus Fjortoft |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Alan Newlands (Referee) |
Match Report
Lewis McCann scored twice as Dunfermline beat Ayr United to leap from last place to sixth in the Scottish Championship.
In manager John Hughes' first game in charge, the 20-year-old nodded in an early corner for his first club goal.
Ryan Dow doubled the Fifers' lead in similar fashion, heading in another corner before the interval.
McCann grabbed his second of the day from close range following an Aaron Comrie header.
Just one point covers the bottom five in the division now, while fifth place Arbroath are 14 points clear of both Dunfermline and Morton.
Match report written by BBC
Squad Statistics (as at November 20th, 2021)
| 2021-22 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
 |
|
|
|
| Aiden McAdams (GK) | - |
|
11 | - | 11 | - |
| Jordan Houston | 21 |
|
12 | - | 23 | - |
| Jack Baird | 25 |
|
19 | 1 | 40 | 1 |
| Patrick Reading | 22 |
|
18 | 1 | 29 | 2 |
| Markus Fjortoft | 27 |
|
17 | 1 | 17 | 1 |
| Aaron Muirhead | - |
|
16 | 1 | 33 | 2 |
| Daire OConnor | 24 |
|
10 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| Joseph Chalmers | 27 |
|
14 | 2 | 35 | 2 |
| Mark McKenzie | 21 |
|
15 | 1 | 28 | 1 |
| Andy Murdoch | - |
|
19 | 1 | 39 | 2 |
| Jonathan Afolabi | 21 |
|
13 | 1 | 13 | 1 |
| Steven Bradley (sub) | - |
|
9 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| James Maxwell (sub) | 19 |
|
14 | 1 | 14 | 1 |
| Cameron Salkeld (sub) | 22 |
|
17 | 2 | 17 | 2 |
League Table (as at November 20th, 2021)
| Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Kilmarnock | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 29 |
| 2. | Raith Rovers | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 29 |
| 3. | ICT | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 28 |
| 4. | Partick Thistle | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 27 |
| 5. | Arbroath | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 27 |
| 6. | Dunfermline Athletic | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 7. | Ayr United | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 |
| 8. | Hamilton Academical | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 |
| 9. | Morton | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 12 |
| 10. | Queen of the South | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 |