AYR United boss Gary Naysmith says he will not be getting carried away after his side earned their first win since the opening day of the season.
The Honest Men climbed to sixth in the Scottish Championship standings after an impressive 2-0 win away to Queen's Park on Friday night.
Despite Ross Taylor missing a penalty on the half hour mark to break the deadlock, Ayr remained on the front foot with Dylan Watret finishing off a well worked move on 35 minutes to give the visitors the lead.
United then struck the killer blow as Josh Landers headed home his first goal for the club, in what was his first start, to double the advantage.
It proved to be the final action as Ayr held on for their first victory and first clean sheet since defeating Arbroath by the same scoreline on the opening day of the campaign last month.
“I thought it was a deserved victory," Naysmith told Ayr United TV. "The first 10 or 15 minutes was quite even but after that, I thought for the majority of the game we were in control.
“We scored two good goals, we missed a penalty, the goalie has made a couple of good saves and we put five or six really good crosses into the box.
“It was a good attacking performance, and I think we limited Queen’s Park to very little. Over the piece, we’ve deserved to win the game, I’m delighted for the players.”
The Somerset Park boss also praised the showing of young striker Landers after he netted his first goal for the club since arriving on loan from West Ham United.
Naysmith added: “Owen [Stirton] never really done anything to be left out the team, we just feel he had played a lot of minutes.
“Josh has now been in the building a couple of weeks. We wanted to give Owen a breather and we wanted to see what we actually had with Josh.
“You can watch so many videos but until you put him on the pitch in the Championship you don’t know what you’ve got.
“I thought he done well, there are things he can improve on, but he played 70 minutes, got himself a goal, he was involved with the movement for our first goal. I think he can be happy with his night’s work.”
Although he was impressed with the showing, Naysmith says that his men cannot afford to get carried away with the result.
He continued: “I thought we had a lot of strong performances and the longer the game went on the stronger I think we became.
“When the subs came on, we still looked a threat. There are a lot of positives, but we’ll not get carried away.
“As we’ve already seen this season, there can be ups and downs. It’s only three points but I’m delighted for everybody.”
Next up for Ayr is a home league test against current unbeaten table toppers Stenhousemuir on Friday, September 25 (7.45pm KO).
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