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Falkirk vs Ayr United Live Stream, Predictions
The highly anticipated Scottish Cup quarter-final confrontation between Falkirk and Ayr United takes place on Monday. It goes without saying that spot in the semi finals at stake, it’s shaping up to be an exciting game of football.
Full predictions, stats & game poll for the Falkirk v Ayr United match are shown here - as well as the best betting odds.
📏 Form Guide
Falkirk
DWWWWL
Falkirk will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 2-0 League One losing effort in their last game against Dunfermline Athletic.
Rhys Breen (67') and Matty Todd (75') scored for Dunfermline Athletic.
Fixtures with Falkirk have often been exciting encounters lately with a lot of goalmouth action the rule rather than the exception. Over their past six clashes alone, the sum of 20 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 15 of these being chalked up by Falkirk.
Ayr United
LWLDLW
Ayr United come into this game following a 1-3 Championship win with the eclipse of Greenock Morton in their previous match.
For Ayr United, goals were scored by Sam Ashford (7'), Sean McGinty (34') and Dipo Akinyemi (43'). Robbie Crawford (29') was the scorer for Greenock Morton.
Looking at their form, and Ayr United have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 7 goals in all. At the back, Ayr United just haven’t been too solid at all. Regardless, it remains to be seen if such a trend will continue on in this next game.
👥 Head to head
Looking at their past head-to-head clashes going back to 15/09/2018 tells us that Falkirk have won 2 of these games and Ayr United 4, with the tally of draws being 0.
15 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 6 for The Bairns and 9 for The Honest Men. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.
ℹ️ Team News: Falkirk
The Falkirk manager John McGlynn will be thankful to have no fitness worries whatsoever coming into this match thanks to a completely injury-free squad to choose from.
📋 Team News: Ayr United
Thanks to a completely healthy squad ready to go, the Ayr United manager Lee Bullen has zero fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash.
💭 Prediction
We feel that Ayr United and Falkirk may well end up cancelling each other out here.
A draw looks like a realistic possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We’re therefore tipping a very even match with a 1-1 score draw when the referee blows the full-time whistle.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Lucas Pereira, 02:14 09/03/2023

🏟️ Team Focus:
Falkirk
Formed: 1876
Stadium: The Falkirk Stadium (7,937)
Captain: Stephen McGinn
Manager: John McGlynn
Competitions: League One position 2, Scottish Cup (Quarter-Finals)
⭐ Key Player: Rumarn Burrell
Customarily used in the Striker position, Rumarn Burrell was born in Birmingham, England. Having played his first senior match for Falkirk in the 2022 - 2023 season, the goalscoring Forward has managed 7 league goals in this League One 2022 - 2023 season so far coming from a total of 22 appearances.
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27 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 30 | 62 | WDWWW |
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27 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 27 | 54 | DWWWL |
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28 | 14 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 45 | LDWWL |
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28 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 45 | DLWLW |
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28 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 43 | LDLLW |
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27 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 38 | DLDLW |
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28 | 10 | 6 | 12 | -4 | 36 | WLLWD |
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28 | 9 | 6 | 13 | -11 | 33 | LWDLL |
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28 | 3 | 6 | 19 | -28 | 15 | LWLLD |
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27 | 2 | 6 | 19 | -50 | 12 | LLLDL |
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28 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 51 | LDWDW |
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27 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 46 | WLDLW |
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28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 44 | WDWWD |
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27 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 43 | LLDLW |
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28 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 42 | WWDLD |
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27 | 9 | 9 | 9 | -1 | 36 | DLLDW |
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27 | 9 | 8 | 10 | -3 | 35 | DWDDL |
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28 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -23 | 26 | LDLLL |
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27 | 6 | 7 | 14 | -20 | 25 | DWWLD |
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27 | 4 | 12 | 11 | -16 | 24 | WLDDD |
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Callumn Morrison | 12 |
Rumarn Burrell | 7 |
Juan Alegría | 6 |
Gary Oliver | 6 |
Kai Kennedy | 4 |
Dipo Akinyemi | 19 |
Ben Dempsey | 7 |
Josh Mullin | 7 |
Sean McGinty | 3 |
Mark McKenzie | 3 |
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