Airdrieonians 0
Ayr United 1
League (Championship)
Airdrieonians |
0 - 1 |
Ayr United |
 |
League (Championship) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
| None. |
Dylan Watret (70) |
| Team Managers | |
| Unknown. |
Scott Brown |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
M Johnson (G) 1 (89) D MacDonald (D) 2 Yellow card C Watson (D) 16 M Aiken (D) 22 S Graham (D) 25 L Badley-Morgan (D) 59 Yellow card A Frizzell (M) 10 (42) G Gallagher (M) 18 Yellow card C Cooper (M) 21 (77) R Armstrong (M) 44 (77) B Ben Wilson (F) 7 |
Liam Russel .38 George Stanger .14 Frankie Musonda .4 Dylan Watret .32 Scott McMann .33 Mark McKenzie .22 Ben Dempsey .8 Marcus Rus .23 Connor McLennan .10 Jay Henderson .17 George Oakley .9 |
| Bench | |
|
K Wright (G) 30 (89) A Taylor-Sinclair (D) 26 (42) T Agyemang (D) 28 (77) L McGregor (M) 8 (77) C Mochrie (M) 24 |
Harry Stone .31 Roy Syla .20 Patrick Reading .3 Jamie Hislop .18 Nick McAllister .2 Ethan Walker .24 Jamie Murphy .15 Alfie Bavidge Jake Hastie .16 |
| Substitutions | |
| None. |
Jamie Murphy for Jay Henderson (58) Alfie Bavidge for Marcus Rus (59) Jake Hastie for George Oakley (71) Roy Syla for Mark McKenzie (89) |
| Cautions | |
| None. |
Scott McMann Jake Hastie |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Grant Irvine (Referee) |
Match Report
A stunning Dylan Watret strike against struggling Airdrieonians was enough to continue Ayr United’s Scottish Championship title-challenging start to the season.
Scott McMann thought he had opened the scoring for the visitors only to see the offside flag go up in a stop-start match.
And instead it was 18-year-old right-back Watret – already linked with a move to Manchester United this season – who proved the difference maker.
He blasted the ball past Murray Johnston from outside the box high into the top corner to secure all three points.
Match report written by BBC
Squad Statistics (as at October 26th, 2024)
| 2024-25 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
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|
|
|
| Liam Russel (GK) | 19 |
|
5 | - | 5 | - |
| George Stanger | 24 |
|
17 | 1 | 51 | 3 |
| Scott McMann | 28 |
|
10 | - | 10 | - |
| Dylan Watret | 18 |
|
12 | 2 | 15 | 2 |
| Frankie Musonda | 26 |
|
10 | 1 | 62 | 5 |
| Marcus Rus | 21 |
|
14 | 2 | 14 | 2 |
| Ben Dempsey | 24 |
|
16 | 1 | 98 | 13 |
| Mark McKenzie | 24 |
|
15 | - | 169 | 13 |
| Jay Henderson | 22 |
|
17 | 6 | 17 | 6 |
| Connor McLennan | 25 |
|
3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| George Oakley | 28 |
|
17 | 4 | 17 | 4 |
| Roy Syla (sub) | 24 |
|
11 | - | 39 | 2 |
| Jamie Murphy (sub) | 35 |
|
11 | 2 | 50 | 9 |
| Jake Hastie (sub) | 25 |
|
16 | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| Alfie Bavidge (sub) | 18 |
|
7 | - | 7 | - |
League Table (as at October 26th, 2024)
| Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Falkirk | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 26 |
| 2. | Livingston | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 22 |
| 3. | Ayr United | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 21 |
| 4. | Partick Thistle | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| 5. | Queen's Park | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| 6. | Hamilton Academical | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 7. | Morton | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| 8. | Raith Rovers | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 9. | Dunfermline Athletic | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| 10. | Airdrieonians | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 |