Match Centre

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

Venue: Windsor Park

Attendance: 3553

Referee: Ian McNabb

Linfield home-team
0 FT 0
away-team Coleraine
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©David Maginnis/Pacemaker Press

BLUES AND BANNSIDERS DRAW A BLANK

Linfield and Coleraine battled to a scoreless draw at Windsor Park to maintain the respective unbeaten runs for both sides.

The Blues have now gone 11 Premiership games without a loss while Coleraine have gone seven games without tasting defeat.

Linfield created the better chances in the first half with Eetu Vertainen coming close with a header from Jamie Mulgrew's cross, with the Finn threatening a little later with a half volley just wide of the target.

The home side continued to press as the game progressed. Matthew Clarke had a go from outside the box but the ball fell the wrong side of the post, before the same player was denied by a Martin Gallagher full length save

Indeed, the Blues suffered a similar fate on multiple occasions after the break. Vertainen failed to direct a header on target, Robbie McDaid saw a shot through a crowded box slide just wide and Joel Cooper's shot with ten minutes remaining also went the wrong side of an upright.

As the game wore to a close Vertainen was again kept out by Gallagher, and new Coleraine signing Eamon Fyfe saw a free-kick safely gathered by Chris Johns.

Linfield: Johns, Roscoe, Newberry, Shields, Cooper, McDaid, M. Clarke, Finlayson, Mulgrew, Vertainen, Palmer subs Walsh, McClean, McKee, Devine, Pepper, Quinn, A. Clarke

Coleraine: Gallagher, Kane, D. Jarvis, A. Jarvis, McKendry, Farren, O’Donnell, Lynch, Glackin, O’Mahony, Shevlin subs McDowell, Mullan, Brown, Lowry, McLaughlin, McCrudden, Fyfe

  • FULL TIME
    Linfield   0 - 0 Coleraine
  • Chris Johns

    Linfield

    90'
  • Martin Gallagher

    Limavady United

    90'
  •  Yellow Card

    Jamie Mulgrew

    Linfield

    88'
  •  Yellow Card

    Sam Roscoe

    Linfield

    86'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jamie Glackin

    Coleraine

    83'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Michael McCrudden

    Limavady United

    83'
  •  Yellow Card

    Dean Jarvis

    Coleraine

    80'
  •  Yellow Card

    Chris McKee

    Linfield

    74'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Conor McKendry

    Larne

    74'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Eamon Fyfe

    Portadown

    74'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Robbie McDaid

    Linfield

    67'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Cameron Palmer

    Glentoran

    67'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Chris McKee

    Linfield

    67'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Andrew Clarke

    Players

    67'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jack O'Mahony

    Ballymena United

    61'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Stephen Lowry

    Limavady United

    61'
  •  Yellow Card

    Robbie McDaid

    Linfield

    34'
  •  Yellow Card

    Aaron Jarvis

    Ballymena United

    29'
  •  Yellow Card

    Chris Shields

    Linfield

    16'

Linfield

  • Chris Johns
  • Sam Roscoe 86'
  • Michael Newberry
  • Chris Shields 16'
  • Joel Cooper
  • Robbie McDaid 34' red substitution 67'
  • Matthew Clarke
  • Daniel Finlayson
  • Jamie Mulgrew 88'
  • Eetu Vertainen
  • Cameron Palmer red substitution 67'

Substitutes

  • David Walsh
  • Kyle McClean
  • Chris McKee 74' green substitution 67'
  • Ethan Devine
  • Conor Pepper
  • Niall Quinn
  • Andrew Clarke green substitution 67'

Coleraine

  • Martin Gallagher
  • Lyndon Kane
  • Dean Jarvis 80'
  • Aaron Jarvis 29'
  • Conor McKendry red substitution 74'
  • Kieran Farren
  • Stephen O'Donnell
  • Lee Lynch
  • Jamie Glackin red substitution 83'
  • Jack O'Mahony red substitution 61'
  • Matthew Shevlin

Substitutes

  • Billy McDowell
  • Adam Mullan
  • Rodney Brown
  • Stephen Lowry green substitution 61'
  • James McLaughlin
  • Michael McCrudden green substitution 83'
  • Eamon Fyfe green substitution 74'
© David Maginnis/Pacemaker Press

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