Ayr United 1
Celtic 1
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Ayr United
1 - 1
Celtic 

Friendly
Friday, July 5th, 2024
Somerset Park
Attendance: 9,500
Goalscorers
Anton Dowds (pen.) (34)
 		Kyogo Furuhashi (pen.) (24)

Team Managers
Scott Brown
 Brendan Rogers

Starting Eleven
31. Harry Stone
14. George Stanger
3. Paddy Reading
33. Scott McMann
2. Nick McAllister
23. Marco Rus
22. Mark McKenzie
17. Jay Henderson
8. Ben Dempsey
7. Anton Dowds
9. George Oakley
 Scott Bain .29
Josh Dede .53
Stephen Welsh .57
Maik Nawrocki .17
Yuki Kobayashi .18
Tomoki Iwata .24
Kyle Ure .54
Odin Holm .15
Nicolas Kuhn .10
Andrew Kyle .73
Kyogo Furuhashi .8

Bench
A Trialist
19. Oliver Ecrepoint
4. Frankie Musonda
32. Dylan Watret
Jamie Hamilton
20. Roy Syla
6. Andy Murdoch
24. Ethan Walker
24. Scott Tomlinson
16. Jake Hastie
11. Fraser Bryden
 Tobi Oluwayemi .30
Josh Clarke .32
Hyunjun Yang .13
Hyeongyu Oh .19
Hyeokkyu Kwon .22
Bosun Lawal .36
Mitchell Frame .46
Dane Murray .47
Lenny Agbaire .50
Jude Bonnar .59
Colby Donovan .63
Thomas Hatton .64

Substitutions
None. Lenny Agbaire for Maik Nawrocki (19)
Tobi Oluwayemi for Scott Bain (46)
Hyunjun Yang for Stephen Welsh (46)
Hyeongyu Oh for Yuki Kobayashi (46)
Hyeokkyu Kwon for Kyle Ure (46)
Bosun Lawal for Tomoki Iwata (46)
Mitchell Frame for Odin Holm (46)
Dane Murray for Nicolas Kuhn (46)
Jude Bonnar for Andrew Kyle (46)
Colby Donovan for Kyogo Furuhashi (46)
Thomas Hatton for Josh Dede (46)
Josh Clarke for Tobi Oluwayemi (66)

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.
Match Officials

Ross Hardie (Referee)



Photography by Dave Sargent

Match Report

Celtic kicked off the first of five pre-season matches with a 1-1 draw against Ayr United at Somerset Park on Friday night.

Both goals came from the penalty spot. Kyogo put the Hoops ahead in the first-half, converting the penalty after Odin Holm had been brought down in the box. But that was cancelled out when Anton Dowds netted an equaliser.

The friendly match, which heralded the opening of a new stand at Somerset Park, also saw Scott Brown in the Ayr United dugout facing his former team, and the Celtic legend received the warmest of welcomes from the travelling Celtic support.

With many of Brendan Rodgers’ first-team regulars still to report back after their international exertions, it was a youthful squad that took on the Championship side.

But it was one of the Hoops’ top stars of the past few seasons who opened the scoring on 24 minutes.

Kyogo coolly slotted the ball into the net following a foul on Odin Holm to put Celtic ahead, but that lead only lasted 10 minutes before the home side grabbed an equaliser, also from the spot.

On a night when the Celtic manager made a whole raft of changes to give his squad their first run-out of the summer, there were to be no further goals in the game, although young Celtic keeper, Josh Clarke, who spent part of last season on loan at Ayr, produced a number of good saves to deny the home side a goal in the second-half.

Celtic, for their part, had efforts from Oh and also Mitchel Frame without really troubling the Ayr United keeper.

Match report written by Celtic FC Website



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