Falkirk 2-1 Ayr United: Kennedy goal takes Falkirk into last four of the Scottish Cup

League One Falkirk became the archetypal third-tier broadside to scope the Scottish Cup semi-finals since 2014 aft coming from down to bushed Ayr United.

Kai Kennedy's deflected long-range onslaught sent a raucous location assemblage into raptures precocious on, conscionable minutes aft Chris Maguire missed a punishment of his ain for Ayr.

John McGlynn's broadside volition present play Inverness Caledonian Thistle astatine Hampden Park successful the past four.

• Reaction and arsenic it happened

Ayr started the crippled rapidly and deservedly took the pb done their main antheral Akinyemi, who fired into the bottommost country with the assistance of a deflection aft spinning distant from Coll Donaldson.

Lee Bullen's broadside astir apt should person doubled their advantage, but the elusive Akinyemi could not rather agelong acold capable to get connected the extremity of Maguire's fizzed cross.

Falkirk grew into the crippled arsenic the archetypal fractional progressed, causing Ayr plentifulness of problems from set-pieces - Donaldson doubly headed disconnected people from Max Kucheriavyi corners.

The location fans whitethorn person feared that the half-time whistle came astatine the incorrect clip for their side, but their momentum was not interrupted by the break.

Morrison saw a changeable deflect agonisingly wide, but roared connected by the location fans, the equaliser soon arrived.

Frankie Musonda inexplicably handled successful his ain box, and Morrison stepped up to smash a assured punishment beyond Aidan McAdams.

The equaliser seemed to spark Lee Bullen's broadside into life, with Akinyemi again posing problems - helium forced Brian Kinnear into a bully prevention and past rattled the station from adjacent range.

With the unit building, referee Nick Walsh awarded Ayr a questionable penalty, but Maguire could lone deed the upright arsenic helium searched for the apical corner.

His miss was to beryllium costly immediately, arsenic Kennedy's ambitious onslaught flew into the backmost of McAdams' nett disconnected the caput of Musonda.

Falkirk did not beryllium connected their pb and could person added a precocious third, but the influential Morrison was denied a 2nd extremity by McAdams.

It was a captivating cup-tie, an instant classic, and Falkirk thoroughly deserved their win.

Celebrations astatine the last whistle were lone accrued by the quality of the draw, which guarantees a little league broadside volition marque the final.

Player of the Match - Callumn Morrison

Callumn Morrison (right) was superb each nighttime for the hosts, and kept his chill from the spot conscionable arsenic the crippled was truly heating up

What they said:

Falkirk manager John McGlynn: "That was amazing. Absolutely amazing. We've done it the hard way.

"I'm delighted with the quality of the team. It took america astir 30 minutes to get successful the game. We started the 2nd fractional truly well.

"We're delighted we're successful the semi-finals. We've managed to enactment distant from Celtic and Rangers."

Ayr United manager Lee Bullen: "In football, you get truthful galore precocious highs and debased lows. Tonight these players volition retrieve this crippled arsenic 1 of their lowest points.

"Credit to Falkirk, bully luck to them successful the adjacent round. We're evidently devastated, but we can't let this crippled to specify our season.

"We've got 9 games to go, and we could bash thing humanities for our shot club."