Arbroath 2
Ayr United 1
League (Championship)
Arbroath |
2 - 1 |
Ayr United |
 |
League (Championship) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
|
Bird (21'minutes), Hylton (82'minutes) |
Ahkeem Rose (45) |
| Team Managers | |
| Dick Campbell |
Lee Bullen |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
1 Gaston 2 Steele 4 Little 5 O'Brien 12 Stewart 11 Dow 7 Gold 8 McKenna 6 Slater 62 Dünnwald-Turan 27 Bird |
Charlie Albinson .1 Roy Syla .20 Patrick Reading .3 George Stanger .14 Sean McGinty .5 Nick McAllister .17 Aiden McGeady .10 Jack Young .46 Paul Smith .18 Logan Chalmers .11 Ahkeem Rose .9 |
| Bench | |
|
9 McIntosh 10 Jacobs 16 Norey 21 Adams 24 Hylton 25 Candé Baldé |
Robbie Mutch .31 Elicha Ahui .38 Frankie Musonda .4 Finn Ecrepont .21 Scott Tomlinson .24 Mark McKenzie .22 Jack Senga .23 Franny Amartey .17 Fraser Bryden .30 |
| Substitutions | |
| None. |
Mark McKenzie for Ahkeem Rose (56) Frankie Musonda for Sean McGinty (79) Franny Amartey for Aiden McGeady (79) Fraser Bryden for Jack Young (84) |
| Cautions | |
| None. | None. |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Colin Steven (Referee) |
Match Report
Jermaine Hylton's late strike earned Arbroath their second Scottish Championship win in a row against Ayr United.
Jay Bird had the hosts in front before having to go off midway through the first half.
Ayr managed to draw level seconds before the break as Michael Rose nodded in the equaliser, but with eight minutes to go Hylton pounced.
Arbroath surge to sixth while Ayr stay ninth.
Match report written by BBC
Squad Statistics (as at September 2nd, 2023)
| 2023-24 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
 |
|
|
|
| Charlie Albinson (GK) | 26 |
|
6 | - | 57 | - |
| Roy Syla | 23 |
|
1 | - | 1 | - |
| Sean McGinty | 30 |
|
9 | - | 86 | 4 |
| George Stanger | 23 |
|
8 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| Patrick Reading | 24 |
|
9 | - | 120 | 3 |
| Nick McAllister | 22 |
|
7 | 1 | 53 | 2 |
| Jack Young | - |
|
2 | - | 2 | - |
| Aiden McGeady | 37 |
|
5 | - | 5 | - |
| Paul Smith | 21 |
|
7 | - | 40 | - |
| Ahkeem Rose | 24 |
|
7 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| Logan Chalmers | 23 |
|
2 | - | 13 | 3 |
| Frankie Musonda (sub) | 25 |
|
5 | - | 35 | 2 |
| Mark McKenzie (sub) | 23 |
|
9 | 1 | 123 | 10 |
| Franny Amartey (sub) | 24 |
|
9 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| Fraser Bryden (sub) | 19 |
|
9 | 3 | 41 | 6 |
League Table (as at September 2nd, 2023)
| Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dundee United | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 2. | Raith Rovers | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 3. | Queen's Park | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 4. | Partick Thistle | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 5. | Arbroath | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 6. | Airdrieonians | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 7. | Dunfermline Athletic | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 8. | Morton | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 9. | Ayr United | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 10. | ICT | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |