Ayr United 3
Cove Rangers 0
League
Ayr UnitedAyr United |
3 - 03 - 0 |
Cove RangersCove Rangers |
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League |
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| Goalscorers | |
|
Daire OConnor (7) Dipo Akinyemi (24) Jayden Mitchell-Lawson (74) |
None. |
| Team Managers | |
|
Lee Bullen |
Unknown. |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
Charlie Albinson Patrick Reading Sean McGinty Ben Dempsey Reece Mcalear Michael Hewitt Daire OConnor Nick McAllister Sam Ashford Dipo Akinyemi Chris Maguire |
12 Fox 3 Naismith 6 Neill 26 Reynolds 2 Logan 16 Vigurs 4 Scully 20 Longridge 7 O'Halloran 9 Megginson 11 McIntosh |
| Bench | |
|
Aiden McAdams Kinlay Bilham Dylan Watret Mark McKenzie Jayden Mitchell-Lawson Andy Murdoch Fraser Bryden Paul Smith |
14 Virtanen 17 Longstaff 18 Weston 22 Dunne 23 Gourlay 25 Glass 27 Toure |
| Substitutions | |
|
Jayden Mitchell-Lawson for Daire OConnor (59) Andy Murdoch for Reece Mcalear (73) Mark McKenzie for Sam Ashford (73) Fraser Bryden for Dipo Akinyemi (77) Paul Smith for Ben Dempsey (78) |
None. |
| Cautions | |
|
Chris Maguire |
Virtanen |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Craig Napier (Referee) |
Match Report
Third-top Ayr United narrow the gap with Dundee to a point after a convincing Scottish Championship win as Cove Rangers drop to second bottom.
Winger Daire O'Connor fired the opener after seven minutes with his first-ever goal for Ayr.
Striker Dipo Akinyemi added the second from outside the penalty area with his 23rd of season.
Winger Jayden Mitchell-Lawson's close-range finish after the break doomed Cove to a fifth consecutive defeat.
Squad Statistics (as at March 24th, 2023)
| 2022-23 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
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|
|
|
| Charlie Albinson (GK) | 26 |
|
32 | - | 43 | - |
| Sean McGinty | 29 |
|
34 | 3 | 69 | 4 |
| Patrick Reading | 23 |
|
38 | - | 103 | 3 |
| Michael Hewitt | 22 |
|
14 | - | 27 | - |
| Reece Mcalear | 21 |
|
10 | - | 10 | - |
| Ben Dempsey | 23 |
|
39 | 8 | 46 | 8 |
| Nick McAllister | 22 |
|
28 | 1 | 41 | 1 |
| Daire OConnor | 25 |
|
23 | 1 | 48 | 2 |
| Chris Maguire | - |
|
7 | - | 7 | - |
| Dipo Akinyemi | 25 |
|
39 | 24 | 39 | 24 |
| Sam Ashford | 27 |
|
33 | 3 | 46 | 5 |
| Mark McKenzie (sub) | 22 |
|
36 | 4 | 108 | 8 |
| Jayden Mitchell-Lawson (sub) | - |
|
26 | 2 | 26 | 2 |
| Andy Murdoch (sub) | 28 |
|
27 | 2 | 143 | 6 |
| Fraser Bryden (sub) | 18 |
|
17 | 2 | 29 | 3 |
| Paul Smith (sub) | 20 |
|
21 | - | 30 | - |
League Table (as at March 24th, 2023)
| Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Queen's Park | 30 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 54 |
| 2. | Dundee | 28 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 50 |
| 3. | Ayr United | 30 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 49 |
| 4. | Morton | 29 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 43 |
| 5. | Partick Thistle | 29 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 42 |
| 6. | ICT | 29 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 39 |
| 7. | Raith Rovers | 28 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 38 |
| 8. | Arbroath | 29 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 28 |
| 9. | Cove Rangers | 30 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 26 |
| 10. | Hamilton Academical | 28 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 25 |