Dundee made two changes Craig Wighton and Adil Nabi replacing Sofien Moussa and Paul McGowan. Ayr started the game well and attacked Dundee from the start, Dundee did attack but more on a break away efforts. It was only a Wighton shot and the Ayr keeper done well to save from Nabi and Mendy. Jack Hamilton was more the busy keeper and Shankland looks dangerous and will need watched in the second half.
At the start of the second half and Benjamin Kallman came on for his debut replacing Craig Wighton. Jesse Curran had a good shot which was just wide, but on 51 minutes Ayr took the lead a simple ball over the top and Shankland pounced to smash the ball past Hamilton to break the deadlock in this cup tie.
Soon after Sofien Moussa came on for Adil Nabi and was booked straight away, it did look soft. But sadly after being warned of another foul, the striker was then booked again and send off to make Dundee's comeback much harder.
Dundee fell out of the game and Ayr scored twice in the final 10 minutes to seal a 3-0 win. Shankland and Moffat got the goals both simple tap in's with the Dundee defence in tatters. To complete a bad day for the dee Genseric Kungsunga was given a straight red for a wild tackle.
Dundee: Hamilton,Curran, Kusunga, Meekings (c), Ralph, Spence (Kamara 78), Madianga, Ngwatala, Nabi, Wighton (Källman (46), Mendy (Moussa 62). Unused Subs: Parish, Kerr, Caulker, Lambert.
Ref: John Beaton
Att: 3,151
Dundee need to get back on track and quickly, next two games away to St Johnstone and the following week home to Motherwell will test Dundee and I hope we can get 4 points. If we can't then it will be a hard long season ahead.
