Queen's Park 2
Ayr United 3
League (Championship)
Queen's Park |
2 - 3 |
Ayr United |
 |
League (Championship) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
|
Murray (18) Thomas (32) |
Dipo Akinyemi (46) Sean McGinty (78) Dipo Akinyemi (pen.) (92) |
| Team Managers | |
| Owen Coyle |
Lee Bullen |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
1 Ferrie 12 Davidson 4 Kilday Substituted forEzeat 63'minutes 5 Fox 3 Robson Booked at 83mins 25 Bannon Substituted forNaismithat 63'minutes 6 Brown Substituted forJarrettat 69'minutes 10 McPake Substituted forMooreat 80'minutes 21 Savoury 11 Thomas Booked at 75mins 23 MurraySubstituted forWilliamsonat 80'minutes |
Charlie Albinson .21 Sean McGinty .5 Frankie Musonda .4 Patrick Reading .3 Ben Dempsey .8 Jayden Mitchell-Lawson .11 Nick McAllister .17 Andy Murdoch .6 Sam Ashford .23 Dipo Akinyemi .9 Fraser Bryden .30 |
| Bench | |
|
2 Naismith 7 Longridge 14 Moore 16 Bruce 17 Heraghty 19 Williamson 26 Nicol 27 Jarrett |
Aiden McAdams .1 Jordan Houston .2 Finn Ecrepont .25 Alex Kirk .15 Michael Hewitt .20 Daire OConnor .10 Mark McKenzie .22 Michael Moffat .7 |
| Substitutions | |
| None. |
Daire OConnor for Jayden Mitchell-Lawson (46) Mark McKenzie for Fraser Bryden (46) Jordan Houston for Nick McAllister (89) Alex Kirk for Sam Ashford (94) |
| Cautions | |
|
Robson Thomas |
None. |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Matthew MacDermid (Referee) |
Match Report
Dipo Akinyemi scored twice as Ayr United recovered from two goals down to beat Queen's Park at Ochilview.
Simon Murray headed the hosts in front from Dom Thomas' corner and Thomas struck their second before half-time.
Akinyemi's shot in the opening minutes of the second period halved Ayr's deficit and captain Sean McGinty headed the visitors level.
And Akinyemi's added-time penalty secured Ayr a first Scottish Championship win of the season.
The spot-kick was awarded for a handball against Charlie Fox.
Ayr go top of the second tier - a point above Cove Rangers and Partick Thistle - with four more matches in the division taking place on Saturday.
Match report written by BBC
Squad Statistics (as at August 5th, 2022)
| 2022-23 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
 |
|
|
|
| Charlie Albinson (GK) | 25 |
|
4 | - | 15 | - |
| Patrick Reading | 23 |
|
5 | - | 70 | 3 |
| Frankie Musonda | 24 |
|
6 | - | 6 | - |
| Sean McGinty | 28 |
|
5 | 1 | 40 | 2 |
| Nick McAllister | 21 |
|
4 | - | 17 | - |
| Jayden Mitchell-Lawson | - |
|
5 | - | 5 | - |
| Ben Dempsey | 22 |
|
6 | - | 13 | - |
| Andy Murdoch | 27 |
|
6 | - | 122 | 4 |
| Fraser Bryden | 18 |
|
5 | - | 17 | 1 |
| Dipo Akinyemi | 25 |
|
6 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
| Sam Ashford | 26 |
|
5 | - | 18 | 2 |
| Jordan Houston (sub) | 22 |
|
4 | - | 85 | - |
| Alex Kirk (sub) | 19 |
|
3 | - | 3 | - |
| Mark McKenzie (sub) | 21 |
|
5 | - | 77 | 4 |
| Daire OConnor (sub) | 25 |
|
6 | - | 31 | 1 |
League Table (as at August 5th, 2022)
| Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ayr United | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2. | Cove Rangers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3. | Partick Thistle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4. | Hamilton Academical | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5. | ICT | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6. | Morton | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7. | Arbroath | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8. | Queen's Park | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9. | Dundee | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10. | Raith Rovers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |