Ayr United 1 - 0 Stenhousemuir | Tuesday, July 18th, 2023

Ayr United

1 - 0

Stenhousemuir

Scottish League Cup (Group A)
Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
Townhead Park
Attendance: 757

Goalscorers
Mark McKenzie (27)	None.

Team Managers
Lee Bullen	Gary Naysmith

Starting Eleven
Robbie Mutch Patrick Reading Sean McGinty George Stanger Mark McKenzie Michael Hewitt Jamie Murphy Andy Murdoch Ben Dempsey Fraser Bryden Franny Amartey	34 Lyle 2 Meechan 6 Wedderburn 5 Jamieson 14 Bilham 8 Berry 18 Lynch 12 Taylor 17 Anderson 7 Kirkpatrick 9 Aitken

Bench
Charlie Albinson Finn Ecrepont Dylan Watret Scott Tomlinson Oliver Pendlebury David Bangala Dario Viviani Paul Smith Sam Ashford	1 Jamieson 10 Yates 11 Brown 16 O'Reilly

Substitutions
Sam Ashford for Franny Amartey (67) Oliver Pendlebury for Andy Murdoch (71) Paul Smith for Ben Dempsey (78) David Bangala for Fraser Bryden (78)	14 Bilham Substituted for O'Reilly at 45'minutes 12 Taylor Substituted for Brown at 76'minutes 9 Aitken Substituted for Yates at 60'minutes

Cautions
Andy Murdoch	None.

Red Cards
None.	None.

Match Officials
William Collum (Referee)

Photography by Dave Sargent

Match Report

Ayr moved top of group A as a first half goal from Mark McKenzie was enough to see off stuffy Stenny.
Matt Aitken fired an early effort wide for Stenny.
Ayr's Fraser Bryden had a goal chalked off before Franny Amartey's cross was coverted by Mckenzie.
Ben Dempsey and Amartey wasted good chances to kill off Stenny, who hit the post through Nicky Jamieson.

Match report written by BBC

Squad Statistics (as at July 18th, 2023)

			2023-24		All Time
	Age	Nat
Robbie Mutch (GK)	24		1	-	1	-
Sean McGinty	29		2	-	79	4
Patrick Reading	24		2	-	113	3
George Stanger	22		2	-	2	-
Ben Dempsey	23		2	-	55	8
Andy Murdoch	28		2	-	154	6
Jamie Murphy	33		2	-	2	-
Michael Hewitt	22		2	-	32	-
Mark McKenzie	22		2	1	117	10
Fraser Bryden	19		2	1	34	4
Franny Amartey	24		2	-	2	-
David Bangala (sub)	26		1	-	9	-
Oliver Pendlebury (sub)	21		1	-	1	-
Sam Ashford (sub)	27		2	-	56	5
Paul Smith (sub)	21		2	-	35	-