Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2
Ayr United 2
League (Championship)
ICT |
2 - 2 |
Ayr United |
 |
League (Championship) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
| Shaw (6,87) |
Mark McKenzie (66) Dipo Akinyemi (82) |
| Team Managers | |
| Billy Dodds |
Lee Bullen |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
21 MacKay 8 Carson 15 Ram 6 Devine 2 Duffy 22 Shaw 4 Welsh 3 Harper 10 Doran 30 Boyd 9 Mckay |
Charlie Albinson .21 Patrick Reading .3 Sean McGinty .5 Alex Kirk .15 Josh Mullin .14 Nick McAllister .17 Ben Dempsey .8 Andy Murdoch .6 Daire OConnor .10 Sam Ashford .23 Dipo Akinyemi .9 |
| Bench | |
|
1 Ridgers 14 Oakley 16 Hyde 34 Strachan 35 MacKay 37 Nicolson |
Aiden McAdams .1 Kinlay Bilham .26 Finn Ecrepont .25 Mark McKenzie .22 David Bangala .29 Paul Smith .31 Logan Chalmers Brad Young .18 Fraser Bryden .30 |
| Substitutions | |
|
Devine - Hyde (76) Boyd - Oakley (84) |
Logan Chalmers for Daire OConnor (44) Mark McKenzie for Sam Ashford (61) Brad Young for Josh Mullin (61) Finn Ecrepont for Alex Kirk (93) |
| Cautions | |
| None. |
Nick McAllister |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Grant Irvine (Referee) |
Match Report
Scottish Championship leaders Ayr United had their lead cut to a point after they were denied by a late Inverness Caledonian Thistle leveller.
Nathan Shaw's equaliser, his second of the game after opening the scoring, means the visitors' lead over Morton and Dundee is now a slender one.
Mark McKenzie had levelled and Dipo Akinyemi gave Ayr the lead in the final 10 minutes with his 14th in 16 games.
But Inverness, missing nine players, snatched a point.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle head coach Billy Dodds: "It was a collective but there were some good individual performances.
"I was delighted with the spirit and the quality. We had to ride our luck at times in the second-half. I thought we deserved more out of the game but we'll take a point."
Ayr United manager Lee Bullen: "I think there were spells where both teams felt they weren't going to get anything out of it.
"When you go 2-1 up with six, seven, eight minutes to go you hope to see it out. But it didn't happen that way. To be honest with you, it would have been harsh on Inverness."
Match report written by BBC
Squad Statistics (as at November 19th, 2022)
| 2022-23 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
 |
|
|
|
| Charlie Albinson (GK) | 26 |
|
18 | - | 29 | - |
| Alex Kirk | 20 |
|
14 | 2 | 14 | 2 |
| Sean McGinty | 29 |
|
16 | 1 | 51 | 2 |
| Patrick Reading | 23 |
|
20 | - | 85 | 3 |
| Daire OConnor | 25 |
|
14 | - | 39 | 1 |
| Andy Murdoch | 27 |
|
19 | 2 | 135 | 6 |
| Ben Dempsey | 22 |
|
21 | 3 | 28 | 3 |
| Nick McAllister | 21 |
|
12 | - | 25 | - |
| Josh Mullin | - |
|
12 | 3 | 12 | 3 |
| Sam Ashford | 26 |
|
18 | - | 31 | 2 |
| Dipo Akinyemi | 25 |
|
21 | 15 | 21 | 15 |
| Finn Ecrepont (sub) | 20 |
|
7 | - | 13 | - |
| Mark McKenzie (sub) | 22 |
|
19 | 3 | 91 | 7 |
| Brad Young (sub) | - |
|
9 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
| Logan Chalmers (sub) | 22 |
|
6 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
League Table (as at November 19th, 2022)
| Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ayr United | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 29 |
| 2. | Morton | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 28 |
| 3. | Dundee | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 28 |
| 4. | Queen's Park | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 27 |
| 5. | Partick Thistle | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 23 |
| 6. | ICT | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 23 |
| 7. | Raith Rovers | 16 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 22 |
| 8. | Cove Rangers | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 17 |
| 9. | Arbroath | 16 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| 10. | Hamilton Academical | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 11 |