Ayr UnitedAyr United |
1 - 21 - 2 |
Queen's ParkQueen's Park |
League (Championship) |
Goalscorers | |
Jack Sanders (78) |
Paton (19'), Sheridan (59') |
Team Managers | |
Scott Brown |
Callum Davidson |
Starting Eleven | |
Josh Clarke 14. George Stanger 21. Harry McHugh 20. Roy Syla 5. Sean McGinty 15. Jamie Murphy 17. Nick McAllister 23. Jack Sanders 22. Mark McKenzie 16. Anton Dowds 30. Fraser Bryden |
1 Ferrie 8 Thomson 6 Wilson 3 Robson 23 Longridge 44 Welsh 11 Thomas 20 Turner 24 Scott 7 Sheridan 9 Paton |
Bench | |
1. Charlie Albinson 10. Aiden McGeady 24. Scott Tomlinson 27. Max Guthrie 18. Paul Smith 17. Franny Amartey Lucas McRoberts |
4 Bannon 15 Tizzard 16 Bruce 18 McKinstry 19 Williamson 29 McLeish 30 Wills 33 Mauchin 35 Carse |
Substitutions | |
Scott Tomlinson for Nick McAllister (45) Aiden McGeady for Jamie Murphy (45) Franny Amartey for Mark McKenzie (74) |
None. |
Cautions | |
None. | Welsh |
Red Cards | |
None. | None. |
Match Officials | |
Colin Steven (Referee) |
Queen's Park deservedly beat Ayr United to leapfrog their hosts into seventh place in the Scottish Championship.
Ruari Paton headed the visitors ahead from close range after 19 minutes and fellow striker Cillian Sheridan fired the visitors further ahead on the hour.
Centre-half Jack Sanders headed Ayr back into the game with 12 minutes remaining from a corner.
But the Glasgow side saw it out to go five games unbeaten and drop Ayr to third bottom of the table.
Reaction & as it happened
Ayr had beaten Queen's Park twice at Hampden Park this season, but they are now one behind the visitors and only three ahead of Inverness Caledonian Thistle, who drew away to leaders Dundee United.
Ayr United manager Scott Brown: "That's the worst performance since coming in, there was no composure on the ball, no real quality in the final third. The only one good thing about football is there is another game coming up on Friday [against Airdrieonians] so we can rest and recover and watch that game back because they have to watch that and have an understanding of how composed Queen's Park were, they stuck to their guns."
Queen's Park manager Callum Davidson: "Most of the first half I was really delighted with. We knew Ayr were going to come back at us, they've probably got the goal against the run of play a little bit. They score and it's a really important 10 minutes to see the game out, you saw a lot of experience out on the pitch today. Ruari's obviously got a great work ethic. Cilian [Sheridan] coming in he's obviously with a strike partner. Cilian's obviously helped him."
Match report written by BBC
2023-24 | All Time | |||||
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Age | Nat | |||||
Josh Clarke (GK) | - | 5 | - | 5 | - | |
Harry McHugh | - | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |
George Stanger | 23 | 27 | 2 | 27 | 2 | |
Sean McGinty | 30 | 35 | 1 | 112 | 5 | |
Roy Syla | 23 | 27 | 2 | 27 | 2 | |
Jamie Murphy | 34 | 32 | 7 | 32 | 7 | |
Mark McKenzie | 23 | 33 | 3 | 147 | 12 | |
Jack Sanders | - | 7 | 1 | 7 | 1 | |
Nick McAllister | 23 | 27 | 2 | 73 | 3 | |
Fraser Bryden | 19 | 31 | 5 | 63 | 8 | |
Anton Dowds | 27 | 25 | 10 | 25 | 10 | |
Scott Tomlinson (sub) | 18 | 13 | - | 14 | - | |
Aiden McGeady (sub) | 37 | 18 | 1 | 18 | 1 | |
Franny Amartey (sub) | 24 | 27 | 1 | 27 | 1 |
Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Dundee United | 30 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 59 |
2. | Raith Rovers | 29 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 58 |
3. | Partick Thistle | 30 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 46 |
4. | Airdrieonians | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 39 |
5. | Dunfermline Athletic | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 38 |
6. | Morton | 29 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 37 |
7. | Queen's Park | 30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 36 |
8. | Ayr United | 29 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 35 |
9. | ICT | 30 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 32 |
10. | Arbroath | 29 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 23 |