Dundee United 3 - 1 Ayr United | Saturday, August 10th, 1974

Dundee Utd

3 - 1

Ayr Utd

League Cup (Sectional Tie)
Saturday, August 10th, 1974
Tannadice Park. Att. 3,254
3:00 PM Kick-off

Goalscorers
Andy Gray (4) Andy Gray (17) Tommy Traynor (29)	Doug Mitchell (23)

Team Managers
Jim McLean	Ally MacLeod

Starting Eleven
Hamish McAlpine Frank Kopel Jackie Copland Dave Narey Andy Rolland Doug Smith Tommy Traynor Archie Knox Pat Gardner Brian Rankin Andy Gray	Ally McLean Davie Wells Joe Filippi Bobby Tait Rikki Fleming Doug Mitchell Docherty Bert Ferguson Alex Ingram Jock Dickson Doug Somner

Bench
Iain McDonald Graeme Payne	Bobby Cairns Hugh Cameron

Substitutions
Graeme Payne for Brian Rankin (62) Iain McDonald for Andy Rolland (82)	Bobby Cairns for Docherty (35) Hugh Cameron for Alex Ingram (46)

Cautions
None.	None.

Red Cards
None.	None.

Match Officials
Archie Webster (Falkirk) (Referee)

Match Report

Torrential rain heralded the new season, but United's bright start soon made the fans forget about the depressing elements. Andy Gray prodded home the first in six minutes, and Andy Gray added a second with a header in the 17th minute. Things looked less gloomy for Ayr when Mitchell pulled one back with a volley in the 23rd minute. Tommy Traynor was on the spot to tuck home a third following a mistake by McLean in the visitors' goal. That ended the scoring in a match totally dominated by United in front of just over 3000 drenched fans.

Squad Statistics (as at August 10th, 1974)

			1974-75		All Time
	Age	Nat
Hamish McAlpine (GK)	26		1	-	137	-
Doug Smith	37		1	-	584	26
Dave Narey	18		1	-	15	1
Jackie Copland	27		1	-	127	16
Frank Kopel	25		1	-	104	6
Andy Rolland	31		1	-	280	29
Archie Knox	27		1	-	68	16
Tommy Traynor	30		1	1	141	18
Brian Rankin	21		1	-	6	1
Pat Gardner	30		1	-	99	22
Andy Gray	18		1	2	40	21
Iain McDonald (sub)	21		1	-	1	-
Graeme Payne (sub)	18		1	-	33	2