Queen of the South 1
Ayr United 1
League (Championship)
QotS |
1 - 1 |
Ayr United |
 |
League (Championship) |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
| Euan East (80) |
Euan East (o.g.) (87) |
| Team Managers | |
| Willie Gibson |
Lee Bullen |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
1. Josh Rae 2. Darragh O'Connor 3. Alex Cooper 16. Euan East 33. Willie Gibson 6. Harry Cochrane 8. Josh Todd 10. Lee Connelly 15. Calvin McGrory 19. Innes Cameron 49. Ruben Soares-Junior |
Aiden McAdams .1 Aaron Muirhead .4 Sean McGinty .5 Paddy Reading .3 Jack Baird .15 Daire O'Connor .10 James Maxwell .14 Andy Murdoch .6 Kerr McInroy .8 Tomi Adeloye .9 Sam Ashford .19 |
| Bench | |
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30. Charlie Cowie 13. Josh Debayo 20. Robert Nditi 29. Matthew Henderson 23. Shea Gordon 24. Sam Folarin 7. Ruari Paton 17. Niyah Joseph 18. Kieran McKechnie |
Charlie Albinson .21 Markus Fjortoft .23 Finn Ecrepont .25 Mark McKenzie .22 Michael Hewitt .20 Alex Kenyon .11 Ryan Gondoh .16 Paul Smith .31 Fraser Bryden .30 Michael Moffat .7 |
| Substitutions | |
|
Ruari Paton for Ruben Soares-Junior (57) Shea Gordon for Harry Cochrane (65) Sam Folarin for Calvin McGrory (88) |
Fraser Bryden for Sam Ashford (61) Mark McKenzie for James Maxwell (69) Paul Smith for Daire O'Connor (84) Ryan Gondoh for Andy Murdoch (86) |
| Cautions | |
| Willie Gibson (87) |
Andy Murdoch (45) Paddy Reading (51) Fraser Bryden (87) |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
William Collum (Referee) |
Match Report
Queen of the South's relegation from the Scottish Championship was confirmed after Ayr United came back to draw and boost their own survival hopes.
Euan East's 80th-minute strike looked as if it would take the relegation battle to the last day of the season.
But East's own goal seven minutes later took Ayr out of the bottom two and a point above Dunfermline Athletic.
Ayr are at home to promotion hopefuls Partick Thistle on Friday evening, while Dunfermline are hosting Queens.
Having lost to Partick at Firhill on Saturday, Dunfermline are on a goal difference of -16 and Ayr's stands at -15.
Queen of the South player-manager Willie Gibson: "We've been up against it for a number of weeks. That last goal is an absolute sickener. It's a real hard one to take.
"We can't dwell on it. All we can do is use this hurt and this pain to go again and make sure we don't feel the same way again."
Ayr United manager Lee Bullen: "The minimum we wanted to take from this was a point. It's all to play for next week.
"We've got a big fight on our hands to avoid the play-offs, but we know what we need to do now."
Match report written by BBC
Squad Statistics (as at April 23rd, 2022)
| 2021-22 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
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| Aiden McAdams (GK) | 23 |
|
31 | - | 31 | - |
| Aaron Muirhead | 31 |
|
34 | 2 | 103 | 7 |
| Jack Baird | 26 |
|
32 | 1 | 66 | 2 |
| Paddy Reading | 22 |
|
40 | 2 | 64 | 3 |
| Sean McGinty | 28 |
|
34 | 1 | 34 | 1 |
| Daire O'Connor | 25 |
|
26 | 1 | 26 | 1 |
| Kerr McInroy | 21 |
|
13 | 2 | 13 | 2 |
| Andy Murdoch | 27 |
|
39 | 1 | 118 | 4 |
| James Maxwell | 20 |
|
36 | 6 | 36 | 6 |
| Tomi Adeloye | 26 |
|
37 | 13 | 37 | 13 |
| Sam Ashford | 26 |
|
12 | 2 | 12 | 2 |
| Mark McKenzie (sub) | 21 |
|
33 | 2 | 71 | 4 |
| Ryan Gondoh (sub) | 24 |
|
7 | - | 7 | - |
| Paul Smith (sub) | 20 |
|
5 | - | 8 | - |
| Fraser Bryden (sub) | 17 |
|
11 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
League Table (as at April 23rd, 2022)
| Pld | W | D | L | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Kilmarnock | 35 | 20 | 6 | 9 | 66 |
| 2. | Arbroath | 35 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 62 |
| 3. | ICT | 35 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 56 |
| 4. | Partick Thistle | 35 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 52 |
| 5. | Raith Rovers | 35 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 49 |
| 6. | Hamilton Ac. | 35 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 42 |
| 7. | Morton | 35 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 40 |
| 8. | Ayr United | 35 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 36 |
| 9. | Dunfermline At | 35 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 35 |
| 10. | QotS | 35 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 30 |