Match Centre

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

Venue: Seaview

Attendance: 955

Referee: Evan Boyce

Crusaders home-team
3 FT 0
away-team Carrick Rangers
  •   Ross Clarke 66'
  •   Jordan Owens 80'
  •   Declan Caddell 87'
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CRUES TOO STRONG FOR CARRICK

Three second half goals saw Crusaders sweep to victory over Carrick Rangers at Seaview.

A quiet first half, David Cushley perhaps came closest to breaking the deadlock with an effort from distance midway through only for Jonny Tuffey to keep the ball out as it curled towards the top corner.

Jordan Forsythe came close not long after the break with a shot just wide of the left post but, on 66 minutes, the Crues did find a way through when Jordan Owens found Philip Lowry who in turn laid the ball off for Ross Clarke to fire home from close range.

The visitors might have levelled through Nedas Maciulaitis in the bottom left corner after he got on the end of a free-kick but was denied by a Tuffey save.

Crusaders doubled their advantage with ten minutes left courtesy of an Owens header from a Clarke cross.

Then, in the closing minutes, Ross Glendinning tipped a Lowry effort onto the woodwork and then kept out Clarke's follow up. Paul Heatley then had a go, but this was cleared off the line only to take a deflection off Declan Caddell and into the net.

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

Carrick Rangers: Ross Glendinning, Surgenor, Ervin, Cushley, Mitchell, Gawne, Cherry, Reece Glendinning, Maciulaitis, Tilney, Anderson subs Hogg, Stewart, Kalla, Buchanan-Rolleston, Nixon, Dupree, Graham

  • FULL TIME
    Crusaders   3 - 0 Carrick Rangers
  • Jonathan Tuffey

    Crusaders

    90'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Kyle Cherry

    Carrick Rangers

    90'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Scott Graham

    Carrick Rangers

    90'
  • GOAL

    Declan Caddell

    Players

    87'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jordan Forsythe

    Crusaders

    82'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Declan Caddell

    Players

    82'
  • GOAL

    Jordan Owens

    Crusaders

    80'
  •  Yellow Card

    Jordan Forsythe

    Crusaders

    76'
  •  Yellow Card

    Kyle Cherry

    Carrick Rangers

    76'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Alex Gawne

    Ballymena United

    75'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Lloyd Anderson

    Crusaders

    75'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Ronan Kalla

    Carrick Rangers

    75'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Stewart Nixon

    Crusaders

    75'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jude Winchester

    Players

    72'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Robbie Weir

    Crusaders

    72'
  • GOAL

    Ross Clarke

    Crusaders

    66'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Adam Lecky

    Crusaders

    61'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Jordan Owens

    Crusaders

    61'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Mark Surgenor

    Carrick Rangers

    49'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Jamal Dupree

    Players

    49'

Crusaders

  • Jonathan Tuffey
  • Billy Joe Burns
  • Chris Hegarty
  • Philip Lowry
  • Adam Lecky red substitution 61'
  • Jordan Forsythe 76' red substitution 82'
  • Jude Winchester red substitution 72'
  • Daniel Larmour
  • Paul Heatley
  • Rory McKeown
  • Ross Clarke 66'

Substitutes

  • Tom Murphy
  • Robbie Weir green substitution 72'
  • Dean Ebbe
  • Jordan Owens green substitution 61' 80'
  • Cameron Stewart
  • Declan Caddell green substitution 82' 87'
  • Gary Thompson

Carrick Rangers

  • Ross Glendinning
  • Mark Surgenor red substitution 49'
  • Jim Ervin
  • David Cushley
  • Andy Mitchell
  • Alex Gawne red substitution 75'
  • Kyle Cherry 76' red substitution 90'
  • Reece Glendinning
  • Nedas Maciulaitis
  • Ben Tilney
  • Lloyd Anderson red substitution 75'

Substitutes

  • Aaron Hogg
  • Cameron Stewart
  • Ronan Kalla green substitution 75'
  • Benjamin Buchanan-Rolleston
  • Stewart Nixon green substitution 75'
  • Jamal Dupree green substitution 49'
  • Scott Graham green substitution 90'
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