Dundee United vs Ayr United Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Dundee United

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Dundee United, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-4 Championship triumph over Greenock Morton.

For Dundee United, the scorers were Ross Docherty (20'), Glenn Middleton (23'), Louis Moult (51') and Tony Watt (58'). Robbie Muirhead (62') scored for Greenock Morton.

Matches involving Dundee United have often been exciting affairs recently with plenty of scoring being the norm. Over their past six clashes alone, the sum of 22 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 17 of them coming from Dundee United. It will be interesting to find out whether or not that trend can be sustained here.

Analysis of their past results shows that Dundee United:

• are unbeaten in the league by Ayr United in their previous 5 matches.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 home league matches.

Ayr United

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Ayr United will go into the match following on from a 5-0 Championship win in the defeat of Arbroath in their previous outing.

For Ayr United, goals were scored by Kurt Willoughby (23'), Frankie Musonda (32'), Anton Dowds (41'), Ben Dempsey (68') and Logan Chalmers (90').

Ayr United have been a threat going forward leading up to this encounter, having scored 12 times in their last 6 matches. Having said that, Ayr United have been somewhat leaky at the back, having also been scored against in 5 of those same outings.

Coming into this meeting, Ayr United have not emerged victorious against Dundee United when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A review of past results between these clubs going back to 21/12/2019 shows that these fixtures have not been good ones for Ayr United. They have not managed to register any victories whatsoever whereas Dundee United have just been too good for them, beating them in 67 per cent of those matches.

A sum of 13 goals were produced between them in these games, with 11 for The Tangerines and 2 belonging to The Honest Men. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The last league meeting between the two was Championship match day 23 on 03/02/2024 and the score finished Ayr United 1-2 Dundee United.

The referee was Gavin Duncan.

📰 Team News: Dundee United

The Dundee United manager Jim Goodwin will be happy not to have any fitness worries to speak of ahead of this match with a fully healthy group available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: Ayr United

Thanks to a fully injury-free squad ready to go, the Ayr United manager Scott Brown has no fitness concerns whatsoever before this game.

🔮 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Dundee United should have the majority of the possession and should be able to turn a few of their chances into goals.

At the same time, Ayr United could well struggle to score a goal of their own although we do think it’s probable that they will be converting at least once here.

Accordingly, we see a controlled 3-1 winning score for Dundee United come full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 23:10 18/04/2024