Dundee 2
Ayr United 0
League (Championship)
Dundee |
2 - 0 |
Ayr United |
 |
League (Championship) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
| Hemmings (11'), Crankshaw (90'+2) | None. |
| Team Managers | |
| Unknown. |
Mark Kerr |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
36 Hazard 7 Berra 5 Forster 6 Meekings 11 McDaid 8 Byrne 14 Dorrans 16 Elliott 10 McGowan 28 Hemmings 9 Nelson |
Ross Doohan .1 Sam Roscoe .5 Steven Bell .15 Daniel Harvie .3 Connor Malley Jordan Houston Steven Kelly .30 Aaron Muirhead .2 Michael Moffat .7 Scott Tiffoney Aaron Drinan |
| Bench | |
|
2 Kerr 4 Ness 15 Field 17 Crankshaw 19 Robertson 25 Cameron 30 Sharp |
Ellis Hare Reid .19 Finn Ecrepont Ross Docherty .23 Mark Kerr .4 Grant Gillespie Luke McCowan .11 Alan Forrest .10 |
| Substitutions | |
| None. |
Grant Gillespie for Aaron Muirhead (32) Mark Kerr for Connor Malley (62) Luke McCowan for Scott Tiffoney (69) |
| Cautions | |
| Meekings |
Jordan Houston Aaron Muirhead Steven Kelly |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
John Beaton (Referee) |
Match Report
Dundee beat Ayr United to move above them into third place in the Scottish Championship.
Kane Hemmings struck for Dundee early on and Oliver Crankshaw's shot doubled their lead in stoppage time.
Aaron Muirhead headed against the post for the visitors.
Mark Kerr's team are a point behind James McPake's Dundee and three points above Dunfermline Athletic, who drew at Partick Thistle.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle, victors at home to Queen of the South, are four points better off than Dundee and both teams and Ayr have a game in hand over Dunfermline, who have eight left.
The sides finishing third and fourth will meet over two legs in the Premiership play-off quarter-final with the winner taking on the league's runners-up in the semi-final.
The winner of the second tie will then face the second bottom team in the top flight for a place in next season's Premiership.
Match report written by BBC
Squad Statistics (as at March 10th, 2020)
| 2019-20 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
 |
|
|
|
| Ross Doohan (GK) | 21 |
|
33 | - | 72 | - |
| Steven Bell | 35 |
|
22 | 1 | 50 | 2 |
| Sam Roscoe | - |
|
26 | 2 | 26 | 2 |
| Jordan Houston | 20 |
|
25 | - | 25 | - |
| Connor Malley | - |
|
5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Daniel Harvie | 21 |
|
33 | 1 | 69 | 1 |
| Aaron Muirhead | - |
|
29 | 1 | 38 | 2 |
| Steven Kelly | 19 |
|
33 | 6 | 33 | 6 |
| Michael Moffat | 35 |
|
34 | 6 | 70 | 12 |
| Aaron Drinan | 21 |
|
9 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
| Scott Tiffoney | - |
|
7 | - | 7 | - |
| Grant Gillespie (sub) | 28 |
|
5 | - | 5 | - |
| Luke McCowan (sub) | 22 |
|
31 | 8 | 37 | 8 |
| Mark Kerr (sub) | - |
|
22 | - | 44 | - |
League Table (as at March 10th, 2020)
No league table has been added for this season.