📊 Form Guide

Ayr United

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Ayr United will play in this fixture following on from a 1-1 Championship drawn result vs Greenock Morton.

The only player to score from Ayr United was Anton Dowds (45'). Kirk Broadfoot (21') was the scorer for Greenock Morton.

Matches with Ayr United have usually been entertaining encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past six games alone, the sum total of 21 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 10 of these belonging to Ayr United.

Heading into this fixture, Ayr United haven't been beaten in the league by Arbroath in their last 2 matches.

Arbroath

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Inverness C.T. in Championship action, Arbroath and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

The only scorer from Arbroath was Leighton McIntosh (61'). Wallace Duffy (45') and Alex Samuel (80') scored for Inverness C.T.

Proving their involvement in action-packed encounters, the back of the net has been hit 23 times in the last 6 games in which Arbroath have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 3.83 goals for each meeting. Opposing teams have managed 17 of this grand total. Putting that to one side, we must now wait to see whether the trend might continue on here in this game.

Leading up to this clash, Arbroath:

• have not registered a win against Ayr United when they have played them away from home in the previous 5 league matches. Not good at all.
• are without a win away from home in their last 9 league matches. Very poor, indeed.

👥 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels going back to 29/10/2022, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Ayr United winning 2 of those games, Arbroath 2 and 2 being draws in normal time.

A sum of 13 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 of them for The Honest Men and 6 for The Red Lichties. The average goals per game has been 2.17.

The last league contest between the two was Championship match day 14 on 23/01/2024 which ended up with the score at Ayr United 2-0 Arbroath.

The referee was Calum Scott.

ℹ️ Team News: Ayr United

The Ayr United manager Scott Brown has a full complement, with no fitness worries at all coming into this game owing to a fully injury-free group to pick from.

🗞️ Team News: Arbroath

Thanks to a mainly available group, there’s only the lone fitness issue for the Arbroath manager Jim McIntyre to contend with. Zak Delaney (unknown injury) misses out for this game.

🧠 Prediction

We believe that Ayr United will more than likely fashion enough chances to find the net more than once while possibly not conceding against Arbroath, who might well find it difficult to break down their defence.

We’re tipping a comfortable 2-0 victory for Ayr United when all’s said and done.

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Peter Guest, 13:02 13/04/2024