Dunfermline Athletic 2
Ayr United 1
League (Championship)
Dunfermline At |
2 - 1 |
Ayr United |
 |
League (Championship) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
|
Reece Cole (79) Nikolay Todorov (86) |
Aaron Muirhead (pen.) (35) |
| Team Managers | |
| John Hughes |
Lee Bullen |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
41. Jakub Stolarczyk 5. Coll Donaldson 25. Efe Ambrose 3. Josh Edwards 8. Joe Chalmers 16. Dan Pybus 21. Steven Lawless 39. Liam Polworth 7. Kevin O'Hara 23. Dom Thomas 26. Matty Todd |
Aiden McAdams .1 Paddy Reading .3 Jordan Houston .2 Aaron Muirhead .4 Sean McGinty .5 James Maxwell .14 Andy Murdoch .6 Kerr McInroy .8 Daire O'Connor .10 Sam Ashford .19 Tomi Adeloye .9 |
| Bench | |
|
29. Deniz Mehmet 12. Rhys Breen 22. Leon Jones 2. Aaron Comrie 10. Nikolay Todorov 11. Ryan Dow 14. Lewis McCann 27. Bobby Kamwa 28. Reece Cole |
Charlie Albinson .21 Markus Fjortoft .23 Jack Baird .15 Finn Ecrepont .25 Ryan Gondoh .16 Mark Guthrie .29 Mark McKenzie .22 Paul Smith .31 |
| Substitutions | |
|
Lewis McCann for Coll Donaldson (46) Reece Cole for Joe Chalmers (69) Bobby Kamwa for Dom Thomas (69) Nikolay Todorov for Kevin O'Hara (83) |
Markus Fjortoft for Jordan Houston (77) Mark McKenzie for Daire O'Connor (77) |
| Cautions | |
|
Kevin O'Hara (37) Liam Polworth (68) Dan Pybus (86) |
Aaron Muirhead (78) |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
Colin Steven (Referee) |
Match Report
Reece Cole and Nikolay Todorov scored as Dunfermline Athletic fought back to move level with Ayr United in the fight to avoid the Scottish Championship relegation play-off place.
Trailing to Aaron Muirhead's penalty, converted after Tomi Adeloye had been fouled by Coll Donaldson, the Fifers scored twice in the final 11 minutes.
Steven Lawless hit a post late on as Dunfermline moved nine points clear of bottom-of-the-table Queen of the South, who have three games left, and level on points with Ayr in eighth place.
Both those sides have two games remaining and have identical records. Should that remain the case, the two would play-off to see which would avoid the play-off.
Match report written by BBC
Squad Statistics (as at April 16th, 2022)
| 2021-22 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
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|
|
|
| Aiden McAdams (GK) | 23 |
|
30 | - | 30 | - |
| Paddy Reading | 22 |
|
39 | 2 | 63 | 3 |
| Sean McGinty | 28 |
|
33 | 1 | 33 | 1 |
| Aaron Muirhead | 31 |
|
33 | 2 | 102 | 7 |
| Jordan Houston | 22 |
|
33 | - | 81 | - |
| Kerr McInroy | 21 |
|
12 | 2 | 12 | 2 |
| Andy Murdoch | 27 |
|
38 | 1 | 117 | 4 |
| James Maxwell | 20 |
|
35 | 6 | 35 | 6 |
| Daire O'Connor | 25 |
|
25 | 1 | 25 | 1 |
| Sam Ashford | 26 |
|
11 | 2 | 11 | 2 |
| Tomi Adeloye | 26 |
|
36 | 13 | 36 | 13 |
| Markus Fjortoft (sub) | 28 |
|
23 | 2 | 23 | 2 |
| Mark McKenzie (sub) | 21 |
|
32 | 2 | 70 | 4 |
League Table (as at April 16th, 2022)
| Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Kilmarnock | 34 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 63 |
| 2. | Arbroath | 34 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 62 |
| 3. | ICT | 33 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 53 |
| 4. | Partick Thistle | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 49 |
| 5. | Raith Rovers | 34 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 46 |
| 6. | Hamilton Ac. | 34 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 42 |
| 7. | Morton | 34 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 40 |
| 8. | Ayr United | 34 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 35 |
| 9. | Dunfermline At | 34 | 7 | 14 | 13 | 35 |
| 10. | QotS | 33 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 26 |