Match Centre

Premiership
Monday 2 January 2023 (kick off: 3.00 PM)

Venue: Solitude

Attendance: 2137

Referee: Evan Boyce

Cliftonville home-team
2 FT 1
away-team Larne
  •   Sean Moore 59'
  •   Rory Hale 75'
  •   Lee Bonis 50'
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Cliftonville celebrate Rory Hale's winner ©Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

REDS CLOSE GAP AT THE TOP

Cliftonville defeated Larne at Solitude to join Tiernan Lynch's side level on points at the top of the table.

Although scoreless at the break both sides still had their chances during the first half.

Aaron Donnelly came close for Larne with a header from Tomas Cosgrove's cross while Lee Bonis had the ball in the net soon after only to have it ruled out offside. At the other end Ronan Hale saw an effort gathered by Rohan Ferguson.

Larne might have found a way through when Paul O'Neill produced a great stop from Nathan Gartside, before the keeper then proved equal to Ben Doherty's 25-yard effort.

But they did move in front on 50 minutes when Cosgrove did well to find Bonis who then beat Gartside at the near post.

Cliftonville levelled nine minutes after that, however, courtesy of a Sean Moore left-foot strike that took a deflection off Cian Bolger.

Then, with a quarter-of-an-hour to go, Rory Hale bagged what proved to be Cliftonville's winner after showing great composure to find space inside the area and send the ball past Rohan Ferguson.

Leroy Millar thought he had levelled for Larne only for his finish to be ruled out for a foul on Jonny Addis while, in the closing moments, Chris Curran was thwarted by a goalline Fuad Sule clearance in a frantic end to the game.

Cliftonville: Gartside, Ives, Addis, Gallagher, Rory Hale, Lowe, Doherty, Gormley, Turner, Ronan Hale, Moore subs Donnelly, C. Curran, R. Curran, Robinson, Storey, Casey, Coates

Larne: Ferguson, Want, Sule, Randall, O’Neill, Bonis, Doherty, Donnelly, Bolger, Millar, Cosgrove subs McIntyre, Kelly, Kearns, Gordon, Maguire, Hughes, Lusty

  • FULL TIME
    Cliftonville   2 - 1 Larne
  •  Yellow Card

    Odhran Casey

    Cliftonville

    90+1'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Ronan Hale

    Players

    89'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Colin Coates

    Ballymena United

    89'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Rory Hale

    Cliftonville

    85'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Odhran Casey

    Cliftonville

    85'
  •  Yellow Card

    Lee Bonis

    Players

    83'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Joe Gormley

    Cliftonville

    81'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Chris Curran

    Players

    81'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Paul O'Neill

    Larne

    81'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Daniel Kearns

    H&W Welders

    81'
  • GOAL

    Rory Hale

    Cliftonville

    75'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Mark Randall

    Larne

    65'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Thomas Maguire

    Dungannon Swifts

    65'
  • GOAL

    Sean Moore

    Players

    59'
  •  Yellow Card

    Mark Randall

    Larne

    53'
  • GOAL

    Lee Bonis

    Players

    50'
  •  Yellow Card

    Jonathan Addis

    Cliftonville

    24'

Cliftonville

  • Nathan Gartside
  • Levi Ives
  • Jonathan Addis 24'
  • Chris Gallagher
  • Sean Moore 59'
  • Kris Lowe
  • Ronan Doherty
  • Joe Gormley red substitution 81'
  • Rory Hale red substitution 85' 75'
  • Luke Turner
  • Ronan Hale red substitution 89'

Substitutes

  • Orann Donnelly
  • Chris Curran green substitution 81'
  • Ryan Curran
  • Jamie Robinson
  • Gerard Storey
  • Odhran Casey 90+1' green substitution 85'
  • Colin Coates green substitution 89'

Larne

  • Rohan Ferguson
  • Shaun Want
  • Fuad Sule
  • Mark Randall 53' red substitution 65'
  • Paul O'Neill red substitution 81'
  • Lee Bonis 83' 50'
  • Ben Doherty
  • Aaron Donnelly
  • Cian Bolger
  • Leroy Millar
  • Tomas Cosgrove

Substitutes

  • Jack McIntyre
  • Graham Kelly
  • Daniel Kearns green substitution 81'
  • Shea Gordon
  • Thomas Maguire green substitution 65'
  • Jeff Hughes
  • Matthew Lusty
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