Match Centre

Premiership
Saturday 13 August 2022 (kick off: 3.00 PM)

Venue: Ballymena Showgrounds

Attendance: 1206

Referee: Christopher Morrison

Ballymena United home-team
2 FT 2
away-team Glenavon
  •   Paul McElroy 4'
  •   Jordan Gibson 32'
  •   Peter Campbell 45'
  •   Aaron Prendergast 90+4'
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©Andrew McCarroll/Pacemaker Press

NINE-MAN GLENAVON SALVAGE SHOWGROUNDS POINT

Glenavon came back from two goals and two men down to earn a point from Ballymena United at The Showgrounds.

United’s Paul McElroy bagged the first goal of the season with his fourth minute opener, a header past Rory Brown from the edge of the area.

The Sky Blues made it 2-0 just after the half-hour mark through new signing Jordan Gibson but Glenavon were thrown a lifeline moments from the break when Peter Campbell beat Sean O’Neill from the edge of the area.

The visitors were reduced to nine men with the dismissals of Eoin Bradley and Andrew Doyle in the second half but Gary Hamilton’s side never gave up and duly snatched a dramatic equaliser deep into stoppage time when Aaron Prendergast pounced on a poor backpass to slot home the equaliser.

Ballymena United: O’Neill, Redman, Whiteside, Kelly, McElroy, Waide, McCullough, Tweed, Gibson, Keeley, Place subs Johnston (not used), Loughran (not used), McDaid (replaced Waide 50), Kane (not used), Henderson (replaced Place 79), Parkhouse (replaced Gibson 71), Corbett (not used)

Glenavon: Brown, Glynn, Birney, A. Doyle, Snoddy, Fitzpatrick, Campbell, Wallace, Garrett, Malone, Ward subs Kerr (not used), Hall (not used), Norton (not used), Baird (replaced Garrett 88), Prendergast (replaced Birney 88), J. Doyle (replaced Fitzpatrick 79), Bradley (replaced Snoddy 52)

  • FULL TIME
    Ballymena United   2 - 2 Glenavon
  •  Yellow Card

    Rory Brown

    Coleraine

    90+6'
  • GOAL

    Aaron Prendergast

    Dundela

    90+4'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Calum Birney

    Glenavon

    88'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Robert Garrett

    Bangor

    88'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Isaac Baird

    Glenavon

    88'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Aaron Prendergast

    Dundela

    88'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Mikey Place

    Ballymena United

    79'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Jack Henderson

    Portadown

    79'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Matthew Fitzpatrick

    Linfield

    79'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Josh Doyle (1)

    Players

    79'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jordan Gibson

    Loughgall

    71'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    David Parkhouse

    H&W Welders

    71'
  •  Red Card

    Andrew Doyle

    Players

    61'
  •  Red Card

    Eoin Bradley

    Players

    55'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Matthew Snoddy

    Glenavon

    52'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Eoin Bradley

    Players

    52'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Ryan Waide

    Loughgall

    50'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    David McDaid

    Glenavon

    50'
  • GOAL

    Peter Campbell

    Glenavon

    45'
  •  Yellow Card

    Ross Redman

    Portadown

    34'
  • GOAL

    Jordan Gibson

    Loughgall

    32'
  •  Yellow Card

    Calum Birney

    Glenavon

    31'
  •  Yellow Card

    Steven McCullough

    Portadown

    10'
  • GOAL

    Paul McElroy

    Portadown

    4'

Ballymena United

  • Sean O'Neill
  • Ross Redman 34'
  • Scot Whiteside
  • Joshua Kelly
  • Paul McElroy 4'
  • Ryan Waide red substitution 50'
  • Steven McCullough 10'
  • Evan Tweed
  • Jordan Gibson red substitution 71' 32'
  • Conor Keeley
  • Mikey Place red substitution 79'

Substitutes

  • Sam Johnston
  • Caolan Loughran
  • David McDaid green substitution 50'
  • Kenneth Kane
  • Jack Henderson green substitution 79'
  • David Parkhouse green substitution 71'
  • Jake Corbett

Glenavon

  • Rory Brown 90+6'
  • Micheal Glynn
  • Calum Birney 31' red substitution 88'
  • Andrew Doyle 61'
  • Matthew Snoddy red substitution 52'
  • Matthew Fitzpatrick red substitution 79'
  • Peter Campbell 45'
  • Danny Wallace
  • Robert Garrett red substitution 88'
  • Jack Malone
  • Sean Ward

Substitutes

  • Conor Kerr
  • Andy Hall
  • Harry Norton
  • Isaac Baird green substitution 88'
  • Aaron Prendergast green substitution 88' 90+4'
  • Josh Doyle (1) green substitution 79'
  • Eoin Bradley 55' green substitution 52'
© Andrew McCarroll/Pacemaker Press

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