Cove Rangers 0
Ayr United 3
Scottish Cup (Fourth Round)
Cove Rangers |
0 - 3 |
Ayr United |
 |
Scottish Cup (Fourth Round) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
| None. |
Mark McKenzie (23) Dipo Akinyemi (68) Sam Ashford (77) |
| Team Managers | |
| Paul Hartley |
Lee Bullen |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
12 Fox 2 Logan 5 Ross 26 Reynolds 28 Paterson 11 McIntosh 16 Vigurs 15 McClelland 4 Scully 22 Dunne 9 Megginson |
Aiden McAdams Alex Kirk Sean McGinty Jordan Houston Nick McAllister Ben Dempsey Daire OConnor David Bangala Mark McKenzie Sam Ashford Dipo Akinyemi |
| Bench | |
|
6 Neill 17 Longstaff 23 Gourlay 25 Glass |
Charlie Albinson Dylan Watret Patrick Reading Kinlay Bilham Jayden Mitchell-Lawson Josh Mullin Paul Smith Fraser Bryden |
| Substitutions | |
|
28 Paterson for Longstaff 76'minutes 16 Vigurs for Glass 85'minutes |
Patrick Reading for Nick McAllister (32) Paul Smith for Ben Dempsey (76) Fraser Bryden for Dipo Akinyemi (76) Kinlay Bilham for Patrick Reading (85) Dylan Watret for Sam Ashford (85) |
| Cautions | |
|
Logan Ross Scully Vigurs |
Patrick Reading Sean McGinty Sam Ashford David Bangala |
| Red Cards | |
| Megginson (58) | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Steven Kirkland (Referee) |
Match Report
Ayr United secured a Scottish Cup last-16 tie with League 2 Elgin City after a 3-0 win over 10-man Cove Rangers.
Ayr broke the deadlock midway through the first half when Mark McKenzie's deflected shot found the net.
Cove were reduced to 10 men early in the second half when Mitch Megginson was a yellow card, then a red, in a minute for a dissent.
Dipo Akinyemi then netted from close range to double Ayr's lead, before Sam Ashford made it 3-0 with a low shot.
Cove Rangers manager Paul Hartley: "I thought we were right in the game. First half, there wasn't a lot between the teams, we conceded a really poor goal and then I think the game changes when we go down to 10 men.
"If you are the captain, you have got to lead by example, and keep your head and keep your discipline. It doesn't matter what you think of the referee - keep your cool, keep your head , keep 11 players on the pitch. It is just a bad error."
Ayr United manager Lee Bullen: "We knew we were taking a little bit of a gamble with changing as many bodies as we did, but these lads that played all deserved the opportunity and a lot of them took it.
"I am not going to disrespect Elgin in any way whatsoever, we played them in the cup at the beginning of the season and drew with them."
Match report written by BBC
Squad Statistics (as at January 31st, 2023)
| 2022-23 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
 |
|
|
|
| Aiden McAdams (GK) | - |
|
5 | - | 37 | - |
| Jordan Houston | 23 |
|
19 | 1 | 100 | 1 |
| Sean McGinty | 29 |
|
24 | 2 | 59 | 3 |
| Alex Kirk | 20 |
|
18 | 2 | 18 | 2 |
| Mark McKenzie | 22 |
|
27 | 4 | 99 | 8 |
| David Bangala | 25 |
|
8 | - | 8 | - |
| Daire OConnor | 25 |
|
15 | - | 40 | 1 |
| Ben Dempsey | 23 |
|
29 | 6 | 36 | 6 |
| Nick McAllister | 22 |
|
20 | 1 | 33 | 1 |
| Sam Ashford | 27 |
|
24 | 1 | 37 | 3 |
| Dipo Akinyemi | 25 |
|
29 | 17 | 29 | 17 |
| Dylan Watret (sub) | 16 |
|
2 | - | 2 | - |
| Kinlay Bilham (sub) | 20 |
|
2 | - | 2 | - |
| Patrick Reading (sub) | 23 |
|
28 | - | 93 | 3 |
| Fraser Bryden (sub) | 18 |
|
11 | 1 | 23 | 2 |
| Paul Smith (sub) | 20 |
|
14 | - | 23 | - |
League Table (as at January 31st, 2023)
| Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Queen's Park | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 40 |
| 2. | Ayr United | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 39 |
| 3. | Dundee | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 38 |
| 4. | Partick Thistle | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 33 |
| 5. | ICT | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 31 |
| 6. | Morton | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 30 |
| 7. | Raith Rovers | 23 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 30 |
| 8. | Cove Rangers | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 22 |
| 9. | Arbroath | 23 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 21 |
| 10. | Hamilton Academical | 22 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 17 |