While we have made these predictions for Ayr United v Queen's Park for this match preview with the best of intentions, no profits are guaranteed. Always gamble responsibly, and with what you can afford to lose. Best of luck.
Ayr United take on visiting rivals Queen's Park at Somerset Park in the Championship clash on Saturday.
Scroll down to see all of the predictions, poll and statistics for Ayr United v Queen's Park (including the best match odds).
๐ Form Guide
Ayr United
LWLWLW ๐ข
Ayr United will be looking for another win after a 1-2 Championship triumph vs Inverness C.T.
For Ayr United, the goals were scored by George Stanger (5') and Fraser Bryden (61'). Billy McKay (45') was the scorer for Inverness C.T.
Itโs not been often in recent times where Ayr United have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Ayr United have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 12 goals in the process. We shall soon see whether or not that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.
Coming into this clash, Ayr United have not lost a league tie with Queen's Park in their last 4 matches.
Queen's Park
DLWDDD
Previously, Queen's Park drew 0-0 in the Championship tie with Raith Rovers.
During their six previous matches, Callum Davidson's Queen's Park have found the net a total of 10 times, giving them a goals scored per game average of 1.67.
Pre-game facts show that Queen's Park:
- are winless against Ayr United when they've played them away from home in the last 8 league matches. Very poor away form.
- have not been beaten by Ayr United when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.
- have not won away from home in their last 2 league games.
๐ฅ Head to head
An examination of their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 08/10/2022 tells us that Ayr United have won 3 of these and Queen's Park 1, with the tally of draws being 2.
A total of 21 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 14 of them from The Honest Men and 7 coming from The Spiders. Thatโs an average goals per game of 3.5.
The last league meeting featuring these clubs was Championship match day 22 on 27/01/2024 and the score finished Queen's Park 1-2 Ayr United.
The match was refereed by Steven Kirkland.
๐๏ธ Team News: Ayr United
The Ayr United boss Scott Brown has no fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash owing to a fully injury-free squad ready to go.
๐ Team News: Queen's Park
Due to a fully healthy group available to select from, the Queen's Park boss Callum Davidson has zero fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game.
๐ฎ Prediction
Our assessment here is that Queen's Park might need a bit of good fortune to hit the back of the net against this Ayr United side who we think will likely end up scoring and staying ahead.
Weโre therefore predicting a 1-0 winning score for Ayr United at the end of the 90 minutes.
A close call.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 14:02 23/03/2024
๐๏ธ Team Focus:
Ayr United
Formed: 1910
Stadium: Somerset Park (10,185)
Captain: Sean McGinty
Chairman: David Smith
Manager: Scott Brown
Competitions: Championship position 7
โญ Key Player: Anton Dowds
Regularly deployed in the Striker position, Anton Dowds was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Having played his first senior match for Partick Thistle in the 2022 - 2023 season, the gifted Forward has contributed 9 league goals in this Championship 2023 - 2024 season to date in a total of 22 appearances.
Queen's Park |
|
Ayr United |
Ayr United |
|
Queen's Park |
Queen's Park |
|
Ayr United |
Ayr United |
|
Queen's Park |
Queen's Park |
|
Ayr United |
Ayr United |
|
Queen's Park |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
|
29 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 36 | 58 | LDWWL |
2 |
|
29 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 58 | DLWWD |
3 |
|
29 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 43 | LDDLW |
4 |
|
28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 39 | WDWDW |
5 |
|
28 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 37 | WDLLL |
6 |
|
29 | 9 | 8 | 12 | -6 | 35 | DWLLW |
7 |
|
28 | 10 | 5 | 13 | -11 | 35 | WLWLW |
8 |
|
29 | 8 | 9 | 12 | -6 | 33 | LWDDD |
9 |
|
29 | 7 | 10 | 12 | -1 | 31 | DDWDL |
10 |
|
28 | 6 | 5 | 17 | -34 | 23 | DLWLL |
Ayr United |
|
Arbroath |
Ayr United |
|
Greenock Morton |
Raith Rovers |
|
Ayr United |
Ayr United |
|
Airdrie United |
Ayr United |
|
Queen's Park |
Inverness C.T. |
|
Ayr United |
Queen's Park |
|
Inverness C.T. |
Queen's Park |
|
Dundee United |
Greenock Morton |
|
Queen's Park |
Ayr United |
|
Queen's Park |
Queen's Park |
|
Raith Rovers |
Queen's Park |
|
Partick Thistle |
Ayr United |
|
Partick Thistle |
Ayr United |
|
Raith Rovers |
Ayr United |
|
Dundee United |
Ayr United |
|
Arbroath |
Ayr United |
|
Inverness C.T. |
Ayr United |
|
Dunfermline Athletic |
Airdrie United |
|
Queen's Park |
Dundee United |
|
Queen's Park |
Dunfermline Athletic |
|
Queen's Park |
Inverness C.T. |
|
Queen's Park |
Raith Rovers |
|
Queen's Park |
Partick Thistle |
|
Queen's Park |
Goals scored | 1.2 |
Goals conceded | 1.8 |
Time first goal scored | 30 |
Time first goal conceded | 37 |
Yellow cards | 1.8 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.4 |
Biggest victory | 2-0 |
Biggest defeat | 4-0 |
Goals scored | 1.4 |
Goals conceded | 1.6 |
Time first goal scored | 40 |
Time first goal conceded | 32 |
Yellow cards | 2.2 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.8 |
Biggest victory | 3-0 |
Biggest defeat | 4-1 |
Anton Dowds | 12 |
Logan Chalmers | 9 |
Jamie Murphy | 6 |
Ben Dempsey | 3 |
Ahkeem Rose | 3 |
Ruari Paton | 16 |
Dom Thomas | 8 |
Jack Turner | 6 |
Cillian Sheridan | 3 |
Barry Hepburn | 2 |
Dundee United |
|
Ayr United |
Partick Thistle |
|
Ayr United |
Ayr United |
|
Dunfermline Athletic |
Dunfermline Athletic |
|
Queen's Park |
Arbroath |
|
Queen's Park |
Queen's Park |
|
Airdrie United |