Match Centre

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

Venue: Newry Showgrounds

Attendance: 613

Referee: Tim Marshall

Newry City home-team
1 FT 2
away-team Cliftonville
  •   Donal Scullion 78'
  •   Ronan Hale 75'
  •   Ryan Curran 81'
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REDS EDGE IT AT THE SHOWGROUNDS

Cliftonville defeated Newry City by the odd goal in three at the Showgrounds.

The Reds had the ball in the net early on when David Parkhouse volleyed into the top corner from just outside the area but this was ruled out offside.

Newry came close midway through the first half after Noel Healy combined with John McGovern to tee Dale Montgomery up at the back post but his header was gathered by Nathan Gartside.

At the other end Ronan Hale fired just wide from distance while Newry had another opportunity when Olajumwon Adeyemo connected with a Philip Donnelly corner only to fail to capitalise on the opening.

Cliftonville came closest midway through the second half when Joe Gormley nodded against the woodwork after Chris Curran had delivered the cross.

But the deadlock was finally broken with a quarter-of-an-hour remaining when Ryan Curran knocked on a another Chris Curran ball for Ronan Hale to finish into the bottom corner.

Newry levelled just three minutes later through Donal Scullion after the ball fell for him when it came off Adeyemo on the line.

However, Cliftonville had the last laugh with nine minutes remaining after Gormley headed a long ball into the path of Ryan Curran who responded by smashing it past Maguire from around 12 yards.

Newry City: Maguire, King, N. Healy, McGivern, Lockhart, McGovern, B. Healy, Donnelly, Scullion, Montgomery, Adeyemo subs Halpenny, Carville, Teelan, Martin, Lusty, McNamee, Rendina

Cliftonville: Gartside, Gallagher, C. Curran, Rory Hale, R.Curran, Parkhouse, McDonagh, Traynor, Casey, Turner, Ronan Hale subs Donnelly, Addis, Robinson, Doherty, Rocks, Gormley, Coates

  • FULL TIME
    Newry City   1 - 2 Cliftonville
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Aaron Traynor

    Portadown

    88'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Colin Coates

    Ballymena United

    88'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Thomas Lockhart

    Newry City

    86'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Matthew Lusty

    Larne

    86'
  • GOAL

    Ryan Curran

    Cliftonville

    81'
  • GOAL

    Donal Scullion

    Newry City

    78'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Olajuwon Adeyemo

    Players

    78'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Declan Carville

    Banbridge Town

    78'
  • GOAL

    Ronan Hale

    Players

    75'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Brian Healy

    Ballyclare Comrades

    70'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    James Teelan

    Players

    70'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    David Parkhouse

    H&W Welders

    65'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Jonathan Addis

    Cliftonville

    65'
  •  Yellow Card

    Dale Montgomery

    Armagh City

    53'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jamie McDonagh

    Portadown

    46'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Joe Gormley

    Cliftonville

    46'

Newry City

  • Steven Maguire
  • Darren King
  • Noel Healy
  • Ryan McGivern
  • Thomas Lockhart red substitution 86'
  • John McGovern
  • Brian Healy red substitution 70'
  • Philip Donnelly
  • Donal Scullion 78'
  • Dale Montgomery 53'
  • Olajuwon Adeyemo red substitution 78'

Substitutes

  • Shane Halpenny
  • Declan Carville green substitution 78'
  • James Teelan green substitution 70'
  • Andrew Martin
  • Matthew Lusty green substitution 86'
  • Liam McNamee
  • Matthew Rendina

Cliftonville

  • Nathan Gartside
  • Chris Gallagher
  • Chris Curran
  • Rory Hale
  • Ronan Hale 75'
  • Ryan Curran 81'
  • David Parkhouse red substitution 65'
  • Jamie McDonagh red substitution 46'
  • Aaron Traynor red substitution 88'
  • Odhran Casey
  • Luke Turner

Substitutes

  • Orann Donnelly
  • Jonathan Addis green substitution 65'
  • Jamie Robinson
  • Ronan Doherty
  • Donal Rocks
  • Joe Gormley green substitution 46'
  • Colin Coates green substitution 88'
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