Match Centre

Premiership
Friday 17 March 2023 (kick off: 7.45 PM)

Venue: Inver Park

Attendance: 2033

Referee: Steven Gregg

Larne home-team
1 FT 0
away-team Ballymena United
  •   Andy Ryan 44'
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RYAN WINNER SENDS LARNE NINE CLEAR

Larne moved nine points clear at the top of the Danske Bank Premiership thanks to a goal just before the break at Inver Park.

The visitors created the first effort of note after just five minutes but Ryan Waide could only snatch at the ball after meeting a Jack Henderson pass.

At the other end Micheal Glynn saw an effort blocked and fall to Andy Ryan, but his effort went off target.

Ryan then had a go from outside the box only for the ball to hit an upright, before play switched for Rohan Ferguson to make a save to keep out a Steven McCullough free-kick.

Paul O'Neill was next to threaten for Larne with Leroy Millar then unable to steer a Glynn set piece on target.

O'Neill was denied by Jordan Williamson as Larne kept pressing, while another O'Neill effort curled just wide.

But the deadlock was finally broken on 44 minutes when Ryan stabbed the ball home from close range after an O'Neill chip into the box.

Chances were at a premium after the break, with Millar perhaps coming closest with a looping header from a Thomas Maguire pass.

The Sky Blues ended the game with ten men when keeper Williamson was sent off in stoppage time for a foul on Mark Randall.

Larne: Ferguson, Want, Watson, Sule, O'Neill, Donnelly, Thomson, Millar, Glynn, Cosgrove, Ryan subs Pardington, Kelly, Kearns, Randall, Gordon, Hutchison, Maguire

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

  • FULL TIME
    Larne   1 - 0 Ballymena United
  •  Red Card

    Jordan Williamson

    Players

    90+5'
  •  Yellow Card

    Jack Henderson

    Portadown

    90+1'
  • Rohan Ferguson

    Larne

    90'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Andy Ryan

    Larne

    89'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Daniel Kearns

    H&W Welders

    89'
  •  Yellow Card

    Kym Nelson

    Ballymena United

    88'
  •  Yellow Card

    Thomas Maguire

    Dungannon Swifts

    86'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Robert McVarnock

    Players

    83'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Jordan Gibson

    Loughgall

    83'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Joe Thomson

    Larne

    80'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Leroy Millar

    Larne

    80'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Mark Randall

    Larne

    80'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Shea Gordon

    Cliftonville

    80'
  •  Yellow Card

    Joe Thomson

    Larne

    77'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Ryan Waide

    Loughgall

    76'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Mikey Place

    Ballymena United

    76'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Paul O'Neill

    Larne

    68'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Micheal Glynn

    Cliftonville

    68'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Graham Kelly

    Coleraine

    68'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Thomas Maguire

    Dungannon Swifts

    68'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Douglas Wilson

    Portadown

    64'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Scot Whiteside

    Linfield

    64'
  • GOAL

    Andy Ryan

    Larne

    44'
  •  Yellow Card

    Paul O'Neill

    Larne

    30'
  •  Yellow Card

    Douglas Wilson

    Portadown

    30'

Larne

  • Rohan Ferguson
  • Shaun Want
  • Albert Watson
  • Fuad Sule
  • Paul O'Neill 30' red substitution 68'
  • Aaron Donnelly
  • Joe Thomson 77' red substitution 80'
  • Leroy Millar red substitution 80'
  • Micheal Glynn red substitution 68'
  • Tomas Cosgrove
  • Andy Ryan red substitution 89' 44'

Substitutes

  • Jamie Pardington
  • Graham Kelly green substitution 68'
  • Daniel Kearns green substitution 89'
  • Mark Randall green substitution 80'
  • Shea Gordon green substitution 80'
  • Max Hutchison
  • Thomas Maguire 86' green substitution 68'

Ballymena United

  • Jordan Williamson 90+5'
  • Kym Nelson 88'
  • Douglas Wilson 30' red substitution 64'
  • David McDaid
  • Ryan Waide red substitution 76'
  • Steven McCullough
  • Kenneth Kane
  • Jack Henderson 90+1'
  • Robert McVarnock red substitution 83'
  • Sean Graham
  • Craig Farquhar

Substitutes

  • Marcus Thompson
  • Scot Whiteside green substitution 64'
  • Evan Tweed
  • Andrew McGrory
  • Jordan Gibson green substitution 83'
  • George Tipton
  • Mikey Place green substitution 76'

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