Partick Thistle 2
Ayr United 1
League (Championship)
Partick Thistle |
2 - 1 |
Ayr United |
 |
League (Championship) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
|
Tsoanelo Letsosa (46) Ben Stanway (50) |
Jamie Murphy (45) |
| Team Managers | |
| Unknown. |
Scott Brown |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
J Clarke (G) 12 P Reading (D) 3 Yellow card (46) L Ashcroft (D) 5 D O'Reilly (D) 20 Yellow card B McPherson (D) 24 O Smyth (M) 8 (86) L Chalmers (M) 10 A Fitzpatrick (M) 21 (72) B Stanway (M) 26 (87) T Letsosa (M) 64 (45) A Samuel (F) 9 |
David Mitchell .1 Leon King .20 Kevin Holt .5 Scott McMann .33 Mark McKenzie .22 Kyle Ure .14 Jamie Murphy .15 Nick McAllister .2 Ethan Walker .21 Ben Dempsey .8 Marcus Rus .23 |
| Bench | |
|
L Budinauckas (G) 1 C Logan (D) 2 (46) L McBeth (D) 19 L Dolan (D) 42 (72) K Turner (M) 6 (86) S Lawless (M) 11 (87) S McArdle (M) 23 (45) T Watt (F) 32 |
Liam Russel .38 Shaun Want .4 Liam Dick .3 Dylan Watret .32 Dom Thomas .11 Jude Bonnar .17 Stuart Bannigan .6 Anton Dowds .7 |
| Substitutions | |
| None. |
Dylan Watret for Nick McAllister (62) Jude Bonnar for Ben Dempsey (64) Anton Dowds for Marcus Rus (77) Dom Thomas for Mark McKenzie (84) Stuart Bannigan for Jamie Murphy (84) |
| Cautions | |
| None. |
Ethan Walker Jamie Murphy (60) Kevin Holt (62) Kyle Ure (85) |
| Red Cards | |
| None. |
Ethan Walker (72) |
| Match Officials | |
|
David Dickinson (Referee) |
Match Report
Partick Thistle moved level on points with St Johnstone at the top of the Scottish Championship after coming from behind to beat Ayr United at Firhill.
Ethan Walker put the visitors ahead in first-half added time after being played through by Jamie Murphy, but Thistle roared back after the break.
Tsoanelo Letsosa and Ben Stanway both struck within five minutes of the restart to give Mark Wilson's side the lead and Walker was then sent off for a second yellow card, denting Ayr's hopes of a late fightback.
The result extends Thistle's unbeaten league run to 10 matches and takes them to 24 points from 11 matches, six points ahead of Arbroath in third and only behind St Johnstone on goal difference.
Ayr are fourth on 17 points.
Match report written by BBC
Squad Statistics (as at October 21st, 2025)
| 2025-26 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
 |
|
|
|
| David Mitchell (GK) | 35 |
|
16 | - | 16 | - |
| Scott McMann | 29 |
|
15 | - | 56 | 1 |
| Kevin Holt | 32 |
|
12 | 2 | 12 | 2 |
| Leon King | 21 |
|
5 | - | 5 | - |
| Nick McAllister | 24 |
|
14 | 1 | 124 | 4 |
| Jamie Murphy | 36 |
|
11 | 4 | 83 | 17 |
| Kyle Ure | 19 |
|
12 | - | 12 | - |
| Mark McKenzie | 25 |
|
16 | 4 | 209 | 21 |
| Marcus Rus | 22 |
|
15 | 1 | 54 | 6 |
| Ben Dempsey | 25 |
|
7 | 1 | 133 | 17 |
| Ethan Walker | 27 |
|
15 | 3 | 39 | 8 |
| Dylan Watret (sub) | 19 |
|
13 | - | 48 | 3 |
| Stuart Bannigan (sub) | 33 |
|
7 | - | 8 | - |
| Jude Bonnar (sub) | 19 |
|
11 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| Dom Thomas (sub) | 29 |
|
11 | 2 | 11 | 2 |
| Anton Dowds (sub) | 28 |
|
7 | - | 49 | 23 |
League Table (as at October 21st, 2025)
| Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | St Johnstone | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 24 |
| 2. | Partick Thistle | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 24 |
| 3. | Arbroath | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 18 |
| 4. | Ayr United | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 17 |
| 5. | Dunfermline Athletic | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| 6. | Raith Rovers | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| 7. | Morton | 11 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 11 |
| 8. | Queen's Park | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 9 |
| 9. | Ross County | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 |
| 10. | Airdrieonians | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 4 |