Ayr UnitedAyr United |
0 - 50 - 5 |
Partick ThistlePartick Thistle |
League Play Off (Premiership Semi Final 2nd Leg) |
Goalscorers | |
None. |
McMillan (7'minutes), Tiffoney (27'minutes, 54'minutes), Lawless (63'minutes), Holt (88'minutes) |
Team Managers | |
Lee Bullen |
Unknown. |
Starting Eleven | |
Charlie Albinson Patrick Reading Sean McGinty Frankie Musonda Ben Dempsey Josh Mullin Reece Mcalear Mark McKenzie Nick McAllister Sam Ashford Dipo Akinyemi |
31 Mitchell 2 McMillan 22 Muirhead 5 Brownlie 4 Holt 6 Turner 23 Docherty 11 Lawless 7 Tiffoney 21 Fitzpatrick 9 Graham |
Bench | |
Aiden McAdams Alex Kirk Daire OConnor Jayden Mitchell-Lawson Michael Hewitt David Bangala Andy Murdoch Fraser Bryden Chris Maguire Paul Smith |
1 Sneddon 10 Dowds 15 McKinnon 16 Hodson 19 Mullen 25 Owens 29 Mackenzie 30 Stevenson |
Substitutions | |
Paul Smith for Reece Mcalear (45) Andy Murdoch for Sam Ashford (45) Chris Maguire for Ben Dempsey (62) Jayden Mitchell-Lawson for Mark McKenzie (62) |
22 Muirhead for Hodson 71' 11 Lawless for McKinnon 66' 7 Tiffoneyfor Mullenat 59' 21 Fitzpatrick for Mackenzie 66' 9 GrahamS for Dowds 59' |
Cautions | |
Nick McAllister Reece Mcalear |
Muirhead |
Red Cards | |
Dipo Akinyemi (25) |
None. |
Match Officials | |
Colin Steven (Referee) |
Partick Thistle are through to the Premiership play-off final after brushing aside 10-man Ayr United at a packed Somerset Park.
Leading 3-0 from the first leg, the visitors added five more goals, Jack McMillan striking early and Scott Tiffoney doubling their lead moments after Dipo Akinyemi was sent off for an angry shove.
In the second half, McMillan set up Tiffoney's second, Stevie Lawless drilled home and Kevin Holt added a late header in a one-sided contest.
Thistle, who also hit eight against Queen's Park in the quarter-final, are the first team to make the final after finishing fourth in the Championship.
The first leg is at Firhill on Thursday and the Jags' scintillating form will have their top-flight opponents very concerned.
Ross County and Kilmarnock, who meet at Rugby Park on Sunday, are battling to avoid 11th spot, while there is a remote chance of Dundee United hauling themselves off the bottom.
A bumper crowd turned out, with the home faithful hoping for something special, but that bubble was burst on seven minutes when McMillan headed in after an Aidan Fitzpatrick shot was stopped by goalkeeper Charlie Albinson.
And the hosts' slim hopes evaporated when top-scorer Akinyemi was dismissed for reacting to being held by Aaron Muirhead, with the defender making the most of it with a dramatic fall.
Thistle soon doubled their lead on the counter-attack, Tiffoney converting from Fitzpatrick's low cross.
Tiffoney added another goal in the 54th minute, poking in a McMillan delivery from six yards.
Lawless cracked in a neat reverse finish after Albinson had palmed away Holt's cross and the defender got the better of the keeper from a corner to complete the scoring.
Match report written by BBC
2022-23 | All Time | |||||
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Age | Nat | |||||
Charlie Albinson (GK) | 26 | 40 | - | 51 | - | |
Sean McGinty | 29 | 42 | 3 | 77 | 4 | |
Patrick Reading | 23 | 46 | - | 111 | 3 | |
Frankie Musonda | 25 | 30 | 2 | 30 | 2 | |
Reece Mcalear | 21 | 17 | - | 17 | - | |
Josh Mullin | - | 26 | 9 | 26 | 9 | |
Ben Dempsey | 23 | 46 | 8 | 53 | 8 | |
Nick McAllister | 22 | 33 | 1 | 46 | 1 | |
Mark McKenzie | 22 | 42 | 5 | 114 | 9 | |
Dipo Akinyemi | 25 | 46 | 25 | 46 | 25 | |
Sam Ashford | 27 | 41 | 3 | 54 | 5 | |
Jayden Mitchell-Lawson (sub) | - | 34 | 2 | 34 | 2 | |
Andy Murdoch (sub) | 28 | 34 | 2 | 150 | 6 | |
Paul Smith (sub) | 21 | 24 | - | 33 | - | |
Chris Maguire (sub) | - | 15 | - | 15 | - |
Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
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1. | Dundee | 35 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 63 |
2. | Ayr United | 36 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 58 |
3. | Queen's Park | 36 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 58 |
4. | Morton | 36 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 57 |
5. | ICT | 36 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 55 |
6. | Partick Thistle | 35 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 54 |
7. | Raith Rovers | 36 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 43 |
8. | Arbroath | 36 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 34 |
9. | Hamilton Academical | 36 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 31 |
10. | Cove Rangers | 36 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 31 |