Ayr United 0
Partick Thistle 1
League (Championship)
Ayr UnitedAyr United |
0 - 10 - 1 |
Partick ThistlePartick Thistle |
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League (Championship) |
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| Goalscorers | |
| None. | Mullen (32) |
| Team Managers | |
|
Lee Bullen |
Ian McCall |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
Charlie Albinson Patrick Reading Sean McGinty Alex Kirk Jayden Mitchell-Lawson Nick McAllister Ben Dempsey Josh Mullin Fraser Bryden Dipo Akinyemi Paul Smith |
1 Sneddon 2 McMillan 4 Holt 22 Muirhead 3 Milne 6 Turner 23 Docherty 8 Bannigan 7 Tiffoney 10 Dowds 11 Lawless |
| Bench | |
|
Aiden McAdams Jordan Houston Kinlay Bilham Michael Hewitt Frankie Musonda Reece Mcalear Daire OConnor Mark McKenzie Sam Ashford |
5 Brownlie 14 Smith 15 McKinnon 16 Hodson 18 McAvoy 19 Mullen 21 Fitzpatrick 29 Mackenzie 31 Mitchell |
| Substitutions | |
|
Reece Mcalear for Paul Smith (65) Daire OConnor for Jayden Mitchell-Lawson (65) Mark McKenzie for Fraser Bryden (65) Sam Ashford for Josh Mullin (85) |
6 Turner for McAvoy 70'minutes 23 Docherty for Fitzpatrick 79'minutes 7 Tiffoney for McKinnon 78'minutes 10 Dowds for Mullen 7'minutes 11 Lawless for Hodson 70'minutes |
| Cautions | |
|
Ben Dempsey |
Milne |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Nick Walsh (Referee) |
Match Report
Ayr United missed the chance to move up to second in the Scottish Championship after succumbing to defeat at home to managerless Partick Thistle.
Danny Mullen's first-half header notched three points for the visitors, who move up to fifth with the victory.
It ends a run of seven away games without a win, in Kris Doolan's first game as caretaker manager following Ian McCall's dismissal.
Ayr now lie five points off leaders Queen's Park, with a game in hand.
Thistle move within a point of the play-offs.
Match report written by BBC
Squad Statistics (as at February 18th, 2023)
| 2022-23 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
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|
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| Charlie Albinson (GK) | 26 |
|
26 | - | 37 | - |
| Patrick Reading | 23 |
|
31 | - | 70 | 2 |
| Alex Kirk | 20 |
|
21 | 2 | 21 | 2 |
| Sean McGinty | 29 |
|
27 | 2 | 52 | 3 |
| Jayden Mitchell-Lawson | - |
|
22 | 1 | 22 | 1 |
| Josh Mullin | - |
|
20 | 8 | 20 | 8 |
| Ben Dempsey | 23 |
|
32 | 7 | 37 | 7 |
| Nick McAllister | 22 |
|
23 | 1 | 36 | 1 |
| Dipo Akinyemi | 25 |
|
32 | 19 | 32 | 19 |
| Fraser Bryden | 18 |
|
14 | 2 | 19 | 2 |
| Paul Smith | 20 |
|
17 | - | 22 | - |
| Daire OConnor (sub) | 25 |
|
18 | - | 37 | 1 |
| Reece Mcalear (sub) | 21 |
|
3 | - | 3 | - |
| Mark McKenzie (sub) | 22 |
|
30 | 4 | 61 | 6 |
| Sam Ashford (sub) | 27 |
|
26 | 1 | 31 | 2 |
League Table (as at February 18th, 2023)
| Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Queen's Park | 25 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 44 |
| 2. | Dundee | 24 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 42 |
| 3. | Ayr United | 24 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 39 |
| 4. | Morton | 24 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 37 |
| 5. | Partick Thistle | 24 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 36 |
| 6. | Raith Rovers | 25 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 34 |
| 7. | ICT | 24 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 32 |
| 8. | Cove Rangers | 25 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 26 |
| 9. | Arbroath | 25 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 22 |
| 10. | Hamilton Academical | 24 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 21 |