Ayr UnitedAyr United |
4 - 1
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Elgin CityElgin City |
Scottish Cup (Fifth Round) |
Goalscorers | |
Fraser Bryden Ben Dempsey (pen.) (94) Dipo Akinyemi (103) Dipo Akinyemi (106) |
Hester (14) |
Team Managers | |
Lee Bullen |
Gavin Price |
Starting Eleven | |
Aiden McAdams Sean McGinty Jordan Houston Patrick Reading Alex Kirk Ben Dempsey Josh Mullin Jayden Mitchell-Lawson Reece Mcalear Dipo Akinyemi Paul Smith |
1 McHale 2 Mailer 5 Dolzanski 6 Draper 3 Cairns 4 McHardy 7 Dingwall 8 Cameron 10 MacEwan 11 Findlay 9 Hester |
Bench | |
Charlie Albinson Dylan Watret Kinlay Bilham Daire OConnor Nick McAllister Scott Tomlinson Mark McKenzie Sam Ashford Fraser Bryden |
12 Cooper 14 Anderson 15 Antoniazzi 16 Lawrence 17 Allen 19 Dunn 21 Hoban |
Substitutions | |
Fraser Bryden for Reece Mcalear (58) Daire OConnor for Jayden Mitchell-Lawson (66) Nick McAllister for Jordan Houston (67) Mark McKenzie for Josh Mullin (67) Sam Ashford for Paul Smith (105) Scott Tomlinson for Dipo Akinyemi (113) |
6 Draper for Anderson 108'minutes 3 Cairns for Antoniazzi 113'minutes 10 MacEwan for Allen 82'minutes 11 Findlay for Lawrence 95'minutes |
Cautions | |
None. |
Mailer McHardy Draper |
Red Cards | |
None. | None. |
Match Officials | |
John Beaton (Referee) |
Ayr United left it late to eventually see off Elgin City and advance into the Scottish Cup quarter-finals.
Kane Hester gave the visitors a shock lead just before the break as they aimed to reach the last eight for the second time.
Fraser Bryden scrambled in a last-gasp equaliser to force extra time, before Ben Dempsey and Dipo Akinyemi added three more between them.
The draw for the next round takes place on Monday.
Reaction & as it happened
Ayr United, fraught with nerves, did well to eventually overcome heroic Elgin, whose lead four minutes from half-time stunned Somerset Park.
And they held on to it - and threatened to extend it - until Bryden poked home an equaliser from point-blank range with just a minute of normal time remaining.
Relief for United, and the nerves were further soothed when Dempsey scored an extra time penalty after Akinyemi was brought down in the box.
It deflated Elgin and Akinyemi made it 3-1 with a calm finish. He then added his second - Ayr's fourth - to tot up a score line which was very sore on the Highland team.
Ayr United manager Lee Bullen: "I think we were about two minutes away from what we would regard as an embarrassing defeat, but the boys stuck at it and got the break when we needed it. Elgin deserve a lot of credit. You see the clock ticking down - we got a bit of luck. All the pressure was on us."
Elgin City manager Gavin Price: "I couldn't be prouder of the players. We didn't want to be the nearly team. We were confident we could do it. The players gave everything. It's heart-breaking for them. It's a cruel game. I thought we created the better chances in the second half. We limited Ayr to very few clear-cut chances."
Match report written by BBC
2022-23 | All Time | |||||
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Age | Nat | |||||
Aiden McAdams (GK) | - | 6 | - | 38 | - | |
Alex Kirk | 20 | 20 | 2 | 20 | 2 | |
Patrick Reading | 23 | 30 | - | 95 | 3 | |
Jordan Houston | 23 | 21 | 1 | 102 | 1 | |
Sean McGinty | 29 | 26 | 2 | 61 | 3 | |
Josh Mullin | - | 19 | 8 | 19 | 8 | |
Ben Dempsey | 23 | 31 | 7 | 38 | 7 | |
Reece Mcalear | 20 | 2 | - | 2 | - | |
Jayden Mitchell-Lawson | - | 21 | 1 | 21 | 1 | |
Paul Smith | 20 | 16 | - | 25 | - | |
Dipo Akinyemi | 25 | 31 | 19 | 31 | 19 | |
Mark McKenzie (sub) | 22 | 29 | 4 | 101 | 8 | |
Daire OConnor (sub) | 25 | 17 | - | 42 | 1 | |
Scott Tomlinson (sub) | 17 | 1 | - | 1 | - | |
Nick McAllister (sub) | 22 | 22 | 1 | 35 | 1 | |
Sam Ashford (sub) | 27 | 25 | 1 | 38 | 3 | |
Fraser Bryden (sub) | 18 | 13 | 2 | 25 | 3 |
Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
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1. | Queen's Park | 24 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 43 |
2. | Ayr United | 23 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 39 |
3. | Dundee | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 39 |
4. | Morton | 23 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 34 |
5. | Partick Thistle | 23 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 33 |
6. | Raith Rovers | 24 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 33 |
7. | ICT | 23 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 32 |
8. | Cove Rangers | 23 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 25 |
9. | Arbroath | 24 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 21 |
10. | Hamilton Academical | 23 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 18 |