Match Centre

Premiership
Tuesday 30 November 2021 (kick off: 7.45 PM)

Venue: Inver Park

Attendance: 2076

Referee: Andrew Davey

Larne home-team
1 FT 1
away-team Cliftonville
  •   Ronan Hale 52'
  •   Levi Ives 25'
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Chris Gallagher and Ben Doherty in action ©Stephen Hamilton/INPHO

STALEMATE AT INVER PARK

It was honours even at Inver Park as Larne and Cliftonville battled to a 1-1 draw in front of the BBC Sport NI cameras.

Larne had an early chance courtesy of a Tomas Cosgrove cross which Graham Kelly got on the end of only for keeper Luke McNicholas to make the save while, not long after that, David McDaid fired over from the edge of the area.

Kelly came close again from another Cosgrove cross, followed by a Ronan Hale attempt which bounded wide in what was a good opening period for Larne.

However it fell to the visitors to open the scoring when, on 25 minutes, Levi Ives curled a superbly executed free-kick past Michael Argyrides from well outside the area.

Kelly had another chance for Larne before the break but his snapshot was gathered by the visiting keeper.

The home side eventually levelled seven minutes into the second half. Fuad Sule did well to win possession in midfield and brought the ball forward before finding Hale who sent a left-foot effort into the bottom corner from the edge of the area.

Cliftonville pressed to regain the advantage with Larne keeper Michael Argyrides doing well to react to a dangerous Kris Lowe through ball with Joe Gormley poised to pounce. Paul O'Neill then had a low shot blocked by Cian Bolger with Chris Gallagher later firing into the side netting from a tight angle.

Then, as the game ticked over in the closing quarter-of-an-hour, Argyrides was called into action again to turn away a Lowe effort at the end of a mazy run into the box.

Larne: Argyrides, Balmer, Kelly, Watson, Sule, Randall, Hale, McDaid, Doherty, Bolger, Cosgrove subs Ferguson (not used), Nasseri (replaced Doherty 67), Lynch (replaced McDaid 81), Mitchell (replaced Randall 81), Jarvis (replaced Sule 90+1), Lusty (not used), Greer (not used)

Cliftonville: McNicholas, Ives, C. Curran, R. Curran, McDonagh, Lowe, Addis, Gormley, Turner, Gallagher, Kearns subs Dunne (not used), McDermott (replaced C. Curran 85), Harney (not used), O’Neill (replaced Gormley 71), Doherty (replaced McDonagh 65), Casey (not used), Coates (not used)

  • FULL TIME
    Larne   1 - 1 Cliftonville
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Fuad Sule

    Glentoran

    90+1'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Dean Jarvis

    Coleraine

    90+1'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Chris Curran

    Players

    85'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Conor McDermott

    Loughgall

    85'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Mark Randall

    Larne

    81'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    David McDaid

    Glenavon

    81'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Lee Lynch

    Players

    81'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Andy Mitchell

    Carrick Rangers

    81'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Joe Gormley

    Cliftonville

    71'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Paul O'Neill

    Larne

    71'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Ben Doherty

    Players

    67'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Navid Nasseri

    Players

    67'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jamie McDonagh

    Portadown

    65'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Ronan Doherty

    Cliftonville

    65'
  • GOAL

    Ronan Hale

    Players

    52'
  • GOAL

    Levi Ives

    Larne

    25'

Larne

  • Michael Argyrides
  • Kofi Balmer
  • Graham Kelly
  • Albert Watson
  • Fuad Sule red substitution 90+1'
  • Mark Randall red substitution 81'
  • Ronan Hale 52'
  • David McDaid red substitution 81'
  • Ben Doherty red substitution 67'
  • Cian Bolger
  • Tomas Cosgrove

Substitutes

  • Rohan Ferguson
  • Navid Nasseri green substitution 67'
  • Lee Lynch green substitution 81'
  • Andy Mitchell green substitution 81'
  • Dean Jarvis green substitution 90+1'
  • Matthew Lusty
  • Max Greer

Cliftonville

  • Luke McNicholas
  • Levi Ives 25'
  • Chris Curran red substitution 85'
  • Ryan Curran
  • Jamie McDonagh red substitution 65'
  • Kris Lowe
  • Jonathan Addis
  • Joe Gormley red substitution 71'
  • Luke Turner
  • Chris Gallagher
  • Daniel Kearns

Substitutes

  • Declan Dunne
  • Conor McDermott green substitution 85'
  • Jamie Harney
  • Paul O'Neill green substitution 71'
  • Ronan Doherty green substitution 65'
  • Odhran Casey
  • Colin Coates
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