Dunfermline Athletic 2
Ayr United 1
League (Championship)
Dunfermline Athletic |
2 - 1 |
Ayr United |
 |
League (Championship) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
|
Reece Cole (79) Nikolay Todorov (86) |
Aaron Muirhead (pen.) (35) |
| Team Managers | |
| Unknown. |
Lee Bullen |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
J Stolarczyk (G) 41 C Donaldson (D) 5 E Ambrose (D) 25 J Edwards (M) 3 J Chalmers (M) D Pybus (M) 16 S Lawless (M) 21 L Polworth (M) 39 K O'Hara (F) 7 D Thomas (F) 23 M Todd (F) |
Aiden McAdams Jordan Houston Aaron Muirhead Sean McGinty Patrick Reading Daire OConnor James Maxwell Andy Murdoch Kerr McInroy Tomi Adeloye Sam Ashford |
| Bench | |
|
D Mehmet (G) 29 R Breen (D) 12 L Jones (D) 22 A Comrie (M) 2 (83) N Todorov (F) 10 R Dow (F) 11 (46) L McCann (F) 14 (69) B Kamwa (F) 27 (69) R Cole (F) 28 |
Charlie Albinson Finn Ecrepont Markus Fjortoft Jack Baird Mark Guthrie Mark McKenzie Ryan Gondoh Paul Smith |
| Substitutions | |
| None. |
Markus Fjortoft for Jordan Houston (77) Mark McKenzie for Daire OConnor (77) |
| Cautions | |
| None. | None. |
| 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 |  |
 |
|
|
|
| Aiden McAdams (GK) | 23 |
|
30 | - | 30 | - |
| Aaron Muirhead | 31 |
|
33 | 2 | 102 | 7 |
| Jordan Houston | 22 |
|
33 | - | 81 | - |
| Patrick Reading | 22 |
|
39 | 2 | 63 | 3 |
| Sean McGinty | 28 |
|
33 | 1 | 33 | 1 |
| Daire OConnor | 25 |
|
23 | 1 | 23 | 1 |
| Kerr McInroy | 21 |
|
12 | 2 | 12 | 2 |
| Andy Murdoch | 27 |
|
38 | 1 | 117 | 4 |
| James Maxwell | 20 |
|
35 | 6 | 35 | 6 |
| Tomi Adeloye | 26 |
|
35 | 13 | 35 | 13 |
| Sam Ashford | 26 |
|
11 | 2 | 11 | 2 |
| 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 Academical | 34 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 42 |
| 7. | Morton | 34 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 40 |
| 8. | Ayr United | 34 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 35 |
| 9. | Dunfermline Athletic | 34 | 7 | 14 | 13 | 35 |
| 10. | Queen of the South | 33 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 26 |