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matches:2021-22: ← 47game 4849 →

	Lee Bullen	Ian McCall	57y, 6m, 30d

		Richard Foster; Tunji Akinola; Robbie Crawford; Cammy Smith; Kyle McAllister
		Stephen Hendrie; Kevin Holt; Stuart Bannigan; Brian Graham; Scott Tiffoney

Aaron Muirhead (0-1, pen 5 mins); Tomi Adeloye (0-2, 30 mins); Aaron Muirhead (0-3, pen 61 mins)‎		Alex Jakubiak (1-3, 81 mins)
none (0-1, pen 5 mins); Kerr McInroy (0-2, 30 mins); none (0-3, pen 61 mins)‎		Stuart Bannigan (1-3, 81 mins)
		Ross Docherty; Richard Foster‎

Tomi Adeloye (Fraser Bryden, 81 mins); Sam Ashford (Michael Moffat, 81 mins); James Maxwell (Michael Hewitt, 85 mins); Daire O'Connor (Mark McKenzie, 85 mins)		Kyle Turner (Stuart Bannigan, 14 mins); Kyle McAllister (Kevin Holt, 41 mins); Lewis Mayo (Stephen Hendrie, HT); Richard Foster (Steven Bell, 66 mins); Cammy Smith (Juan Alegría, 66 mins)

	Aidan McAdams	Jamie Sneddon	24y, 7m, 23d
	former Jag Aaron Muirhead	Ciaran McKenna	24y, 1m, 4d
	Patrick Reading	Richard Foster	36y, 8m, 29d
	Jack Baird	Lewis Mayo	22y, 1m, 10d
	former Jag Sean McGinty	Tunji Akinola	23y, 5m, 8d
	future Jag Kerr McInroy	Ross Docherty	29y, 3m, 6d
	Paul Smith	Robbie Crawford	27y, 10m, 7d
	Daire O'Connor	Kyle Turner	24y, 5m, 19d
	future Jag Tomi Adeloye	Alex Jakubiak	25y, 8m, 2d
	Sam Ashford	Cammy Smith	26y, 8m, 5d
	James Maxwell	Kyle McAllister	23y, 3m, 8d

			26y, 2m, 14d

	Charlie Albinson	Andy Firth	25y, 7m, 3d
	Michael Moffat	Kevin Holt	29y, 3m, 4d
	Alex Kenyon	Stuart Bannigan	29y, 7m, 12d
	Ryan Gondoh	Steven Bell	37y, 2m, 5d
	Michael Hewitt	Connor Murray	25y, 0m, 5d
	Mark McKenzie	Juan Alegría	19y, 10m, 23d
	Markus Fjørtoft	Ben Stanway	17y, 7m, 9d
	Finn Ecrepont	Stephen Hendrie	27y, 3m, 21d
	Fraser Bryden

	Teamlines derived from PTFC / SPFL. Both sides generally in playing order. Thistle filled 8 of their 9 allocated bench slots.
	3426 (SPFL)

Weakened by tactical and enforced changes, Thistle staggered over the line to a play-off. Ayr avoided one. It was a poor performance, shaky at the back and seldom seen in attack. Needless pens (5 and 61) were separated by a Sneddon fumble (30). Jakubiak's fine drive from the edge of the box (81) - his first club goal - was the only "highlight".

29-Apr-2022, bbc.com

Ayr United secured Scottish Championship football next season as Partick Thistle sealed a promotion play-off quarter-final despite defeat. Former Thistle striker Aaron Muirhead scored two penalties either side of a Tomi Adeloye header through goalkeeper Jamie Sneddon's legs. Alex Jakubiak's reply came too late to spark a Thistle comeback. Ayr finish eighth, four points ahead of Dunfermline, to avoid a relegation play-off, while Thistle stay in fourth. Dunfermline needed to better Ayr's result to overtake them but lost at home to Queen of the South despite taking an early lead shortly before Muirhead's opener at Somerset Park sent Ayr on their way to ending a run of seven home games without a victory. There needed to be an eight-goal swing for Raith Rovers to overtake Thistle with victory and the Kirkcaldy side also fell short after their 1-1 draw with champions Kilmarnock. Thistle, who were without manager Ian McCall through illness and who rested five players, host Inverness Caledonian Thistle in Tuesday's first leg for the right to face Arbroath in the Premiership promotion play-off semi-final.

Ayr United manager Lee Bullen:

I'm just disappointed we lost that goal as I would have loved the lads to get that clean sheet, but let's not cry over spilt milk - it was a brilliant performance and such a big win for the club. They deserve a lot of credit because there's a lot of mental strength needed, and mental tiredness in that sort of thing, to control emotions.

Partick Thistle assistant manager Alan Archibald:

It wasn't good enough. We started really poorly and it was stop-start with the couple of early injuries that didn't help. The team will be different on Tuesday, no doubt about it, and we'll reset and be ready to go. Ayr had everything to play for, we had a couple of guys playing with illnesses on top of the injuries and it obviously played its part.

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