Match Centre

Premiership
Tuesday 21 February 2023 (kick off: 7.45 PM)

Venue: Ballymena Showgrounds

Attendance: 1156

Referee: Declan Hassan

Ballymena United home-team
0 FT 3
away-team Larne
  •   Lee Bonis 40'
  •   Andy Ryan 73'
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©Andrew McCarroll/Pacemaker Press

LARNE GO SIX CLEAR

Larne opened up a six point lead at the top of the Danske Bank Premiership after defeating Ballymena United in a re-arranged game at The Showgrounds.

It took 40 minutes for the deadlock to be broken when Lee Bonis found the net with a first time finish from 12 yards after Andy Ryan cut the ball back from the touchline.

And it was 2-0 just a couple of minutes after the break. A Joe Thomson corner found Bonis who saw a header appear to go wide before taking a deflection of United's Ryan Waide and into the net.

Then, with just over a quarter-of-an-hour remaining, Ryan completed the scoring with a sliding back post effort after Tomas Cosgrove had sent the ball over from the right.

Ballymena United: Williamson, Nelson, Wilson, Whiteside, McDaid, Kelly, Waide, McCullough, Henderson, Graham, Place subs Thompson, Redman, Kane, Gibson, McVarnock, Tipton, Farquhar

Larne: Ferguson, Kelly, Watson, Sule, Bonis, Donnelly, Bolger, Thomson, Millar, Cosgrove, Ryan subs Pardington, Kearns, O'Neill, Gordon, Hutchinson, Maguire, Glynn

  • FULL TIME
    Ballymena United   0 - 3 Larne
  • Rohan Ferguson

    Larne

    90'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Joe Thomson

    Larne

    86'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Andy Ryan

    Larne

    86'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Daniel Kearns

    H&W Welders

    86'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Thomas Maguire

    Dungannon Swifts

    86'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Douglas Wilson

    Portadown

    77'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Joshua Kelly

    Glentoran

    77'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    George Tipton

    Ards

    77'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Craig Farquhar

    Players

    77'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Graham Kelly

    Coleraine

    77'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Lee Bonis

    Players

    77'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Paul O'Neill

    Larne

    77'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Micheal Glynn

    Cliftonville

    77'
  • GOAL

    Andy Ryan

    Larne

    73'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    David McDaid

    Glenavon

    69'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Ryan Waide

    Loughgall

    69'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Mikey Place

    Ballymena United

    69'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Kenneth Kane

    Moyola Park

    69'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Jordan Gibson

    Loughgall

    69'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Robert McVarnock

    Players

    69'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Fuad Sule

    Glentoran

    62'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Shea Gordon

    Cliftonville

    62'
  •  Yellow Card

    Joshua Kelly

    Glentoran

    51'
  • OWN GOAL

    Ryan Waide

    Loughgall

    47'
  • GOAL

    Lee Bonis

    Players

    40'
  •  Yellow Card

    Mikey Place

    Ballymena United

    36'
  •  Yellow Card

    Andy Ryan

    Larne

    25'

Ballymena United

  • Jordan Williamson
  • Kym Nelson
  • Douglas Wilson red substitution 77'
  • Scot Whiteside
  • David McDaid red substitution 69'
  • Joshua Kelly 51' red substitution 77'
  • Ryan Waide red substitution 69' 47' (OG)
  • Steven McCullough
  • Jack Henderson
  • Sean Graham
  • Mikey Place 36' red substitution 69'

Substitutes

  • Marcus Thompson
  • Ross Redman
  • Kenneth Kane green substitution 69'
  • Jordan Gibson green substitution 69'
  • Robert McVarnock green substitution 69'
  • George Tipton green substitution 77'
  • Craig Farquhar green substitution 77'

Larne

  • Rohan Ferguson
  • Graham Kelly red substitution 77'
  • Albert Watson
  • Fuad Sule red substitution 62'
  • Lee Bonis red substitution 77' 40'
  • Aaron Donnelly
  • Cian Bolger
  • Leroy Millar
  • Joe Thomson red substitution 86'
  • Tomas Cosgrove
  • Andy Ryan 25' red substitution 86' 73'

Substitutes

  • Jamie Pardington
  • Daniel Kearns green substitution 86'
  • Paul O'Neill green substitution 77'
  • Shea Gordon green substitution 62'
  • Max Hutchison
  • Thomas Maguire green substitution 86'
  • Micheal Glynn green substitution 77'
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