Match Centre

Premiership
Saturday 25 February 2023 (kick off: 3.00 PM)

Venue: Ballymena Showgrounds

Attendance: 1051

Referee: Steven Gregg

Ballymena United home-team
0 FT 0
away-team Crusaders
football
Kenneth Kane and Billy Joe Burns contest a header ©Desmond Loughery/Pacemaker Press

NO GOALS AT THE SHOWGROUNDS

Ballymena United and Crusaders battled to a scoreless draw in an entertaining encounter at The Showgrounds.

The sides traded chances in the opening quarter-of-an-hour with Philip Lowry nodding a cross just wide early on while, for United, David McDaid sent a couple of efforts at keeper Jonny Tuffey.

Lowry did have the ball in the net around the half-hour mark only to see it ruled out by the officials. Billy Joe Burns then turned a curling shot just the wrong side of the post with Heatley then testing Jordan Williamson with a low shot.

After the break both Heatley and Lowry threatened the home goal again before, midway through the second half, a Josh Kelly misplaced back header was pounced upon by Heatley only for Williamson to get enough of a touch to divert the ball wide.

Williamson was then called into action again to deal with a 20-yard Lowry thunderbolt - before Tuffey was then forced to do the same to deny McDaid.

Heatley might have snatched all three points for the Crues right at the end only for his low angled shot to be cleared off the line by Kym Nelson.

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

Crusaders: Tuffey, Burns, Robinson, Lowry, Lecky, Ebbe, Forsythe, Larmour, Heatley, McKeown, Clarke subs Murphy, Hegarty, Caddell, Stewart, Winchester, Thompson, Boyd

  • FULL TIME
    Ballymena United   0 - 0 Crusaders
  • Jordan Williamson

    Players

    90'
  • Jonathan Tuffey

    Crusaders

    90'
  •  Yellow Card

    Philip Lowry

    Crusaders

    85'
  •  Yellow Card

    Kym Nelson

    Ballymena United

    84'
  •  Yellow Card

    Daniel Larmour

    Crusaders

    76'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Dean Ebbe

    Players

    59'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Ross Clarke

    Crusaders

    59'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Declan Caddell

    Players

    59'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Jude Winchester

    Players

    59'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Douglas Wilson

    Portadown

    29'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Craig Farquhar

    Players

    29'
  •  Yellow Card

    Douglas Wilson

    Portadown

    17'

Ballymena United

  • Jordan Williamson
  • Kym Nelson 84'
  • Douglas Wilson 17' red substitution 29'
  • David McDaid
  • Scot Whiteside
  • Joshua Kelly
  • Steven McCullough
  • Kenneth Kane
  • Jack Henderson
  • Robert McVarnock
  • Sean Graham

Substitutes

  • Ross Redman
  • Ryan Waide
  • Andrew McGrory
  • Jordan Gibson
  • George Tipton
  • Mikey Place
  • Craig Farquhar green substitution 29'

Crusaders

  • Jonathan Tuffey
  • Billy Joe Burns
  • Joshua Robinson
  • Philip Lowry 85'
  • Adam Lecky
  • Dean Ebbe red substitution 59'
  • Jordan Forsythe
  • Daniel Larmour 76'
  • Paul Heatley
  • Rory McKeown
  • Ross Clarke red substitution 59'

Substitutes

  • Tom Murphy
  • Chris Hegarty
  • Gary Thompson
  • Declan Caddell green substitution 59'
  • Cameron Stewart
  • Jude Winchester green substitution 59'
  • Jay Boyd
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