📊 Form Guide

Ayr United

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Ayr United will be hoping to bounce back here following a 2-1 Championship losing effort in their last game against Raith Rovers.

The only scorer from Ayr United was Logan Chalmers (55'). Dylan Easton (45') and Jack Hamilton (65') scored for Raith Rovers.

Three or more goals per match have been seen in 5 of the last 6 fixtures where Ayr United have been involved. Opposition teams scored 11 times in these games whereas Ayr United totted up 10.

Coming into this fixture, Ayr United are winless against Greenock Morton in their last 4 league games.

Greenock Morton

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Airdrie United in Championship competition, Greenock Morton and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

The only name on the scoresheet from Greenock Morton was Michael Garrity (73'). Nikolay Todorov (1'), Charlie Telfer (15') and Mason Hancock (68') scored for Airdrie United.

The numbers tell their own story, and Greenock Morton have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 7 goals in total. In defence, Greenock Morton have been far from perfect. Despite that, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern might be replicated in this next match or not.

Taking a look at their past results, Greenock Morton:

• have not lost to Ayr United in games played away from home for the previous 7 league games. Travelling fans have really enjoyed these clashes.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league games.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 05/11/2022 tells us that Ayr United have won 1 of them & Greenock Morton 3, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 2.

A combined total of 16 goals were scored between them in this period, with 6 of them from The Honest Men and 10 created by The Ton. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was Championship match day 19 on 02/01/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Greenock Morton 3-0 Ayr United.

The match was refereed by Duncan Williams.

🗞️ Team News: Ayr United

The Ayr United manager Scott Brown has a full complement, with no fitness worries to speak of coming into this match thanks to a fully healthy group ready to go.

📋 Team News: Greenock Morton

From a largely available group of players, there is only the one fitness problem for the Greenock Morton manager Dougie Imrie to contend with. Jack Harkness (Hamstring injury) won’t be in action.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Greenock Morton and Ayr United may well find themselves both scoring in what promises to be a very even battle here.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level. We therefore think that it’s going to be a hard-fought 1-1 score after 90 minutes.

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

Andre Moura, 18:06 09/04/2024