Match Centre

Premiership
Friday 7 April 2023 (kick off: 7.45 PM)

Venue: Inver Park

Attendance: 2300

Referee: Evan Boyce

Larne home-team
2 FT 0
away-team Glentoran
  •   Micheal Glynn 15'
  •   Lee Bonis 20'
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Lee Bonis celebrates scoring Larne's second with Leroy Millar and Fuad Sule ©Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

GLYNN AND BONIS ON TARGET AS LARNE EDGE CLOSER

Larne took a huge step towards a first league title with a two-goal defeat of Glentoran at Inver Park.

Tiernan Lynch's side got off to a positive start with Micheal Glynn seeing an early effort drift off target, followed by an Aaron Donnelly attempt from distance and then Glentoran defender Luke McCullough making a crucial intervention to thwart Leroy Millar.

But Larne did find a way through after a quarter-of-an-hour. Tomas Cosgrove sent a cross over from the right for Paul O'Neill to control and find Glynn who kept his composure to calmly direct the ball past Aaron McCarey.

Then, five minutes after that, Glynn turned provider with a cross into the area for Lee Bonis to turn and fire into the top corner from close range.

Larne looked to extend their lead even further after the break with Fuad Sule having a go from 25 yards with the ball just narrowly failing to find the target.

At the other end Rohan Ferguson showed great reflexes to turn the ball to safety after it came off Glynn while James Singleton sent a volley just wide a short time after that.

Andy Ryan threatened Larne's third with a first time volley from the edge of the area, and Bonis somehow failed to double his tally after connecting with a low Cosgrove delivery.

Larne: Ferguson, Want, Sule, O’Neill, Bonis, Donnelly, Bolger, Thomson, Millar, Glynn, Cosgrove subs Pardington, Watson, Randall, Gordon, Maguire, Ryan, Wolters

Glentoran: McCarey, Kane, McCullough, Burns, McCartan, R. Marshall, J. Donnelly, Singleton, Devlin, Purkis, McMenamin subs Webber, R. Donnelly, Murphy, Plum, Wightman, McGinn, Uzokwe

  • FULL TIME
    Larne   2 - 0 Glentoran
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Aaron Donnelly

    Larne

    90+2'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Albert Watson

    Carrick Rangers

    90+2'
  • Rohan Ferguson

    Larne

    90'
  •  Yellow Card

    Rohan Ferguson

    Larne

    86'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Shay McCartan

    Portadown

    76'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Rhys Marshall

    Glenavon

    76'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Ruaidhrí Donnelly

    Cliftonville

    76'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Aaron Wightman

    Glentoran

    76'
  •  Yellow Card

    Fuad Sule

    Glentoran

    74'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Micheal Glynn

    Cliftonville

    67'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Joe Thomson

    Larne

    67'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Mark Randall

    Larne

    67'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Shea Gordon

    Cliftonville

    67'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Bobby Burns

    Players

    60'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Hrvoje Plum

    Players

    60'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Paul O'Neill

    Larne

    55'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Andy Ryan

    Larne

    55'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jay Donnelly

    Glentoran

    46'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Daniel Gibson

    Carrick Rangers

    46'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Junior Ogedi-Uzokwe

    Players

    46'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Niall McGinn

    Players

    46'
  •  Yellow Card

    Cian Bolger

    Larne

    45'
  • GOAL

    Lee Bonis

    Players

    20'
  • GOAL

    Micheal Glynn

    Cliftonville

    15'

Larne

  • Rohan Ferguson 86'
  • Shaun Want
  • Fuad Sule 74'
  • Paul O'Neill red substitution 55'
  • Aaron Donnelly red substitution 90+2'
  • Micheal Glynn red substitution 67' 15'
  • Cian Bolger 45'
  • Lee Bonis 20'
  • Joe Thomson red substitution 67'
  • Leroy Millar
  • Tomas Cosgrove

Substitutes

  • Jamie Pardington
  • Albert Watson green substitution 90+2'
  • Mark Randall green substitution 67'
  • Shea Gordon green substitution 67'
  • Thomas Maguire
  • Andy Ryan green substitution 55'
  • Randy Wolters

Glentoran

  • Aaron McCarey
  • Marcus Kane
  • Luke McCullough
  • Bobby Burns red substitution 60'
  • Shay McCartan red substitution 76'
  • Rhys Marshall red substitution 76'
  • Jay Donnelly red substitution 46'
  • James Singleton
  • Terry Devlin
  • Daniel Gibson red substitution 46'
  • Conor McMenamin

Substitutes

  • Oliver Webber
  • Ruaidhrí Donnelly green substitution 76'
  • Harry Murphy
  • Hrvoje Plum green substitution 60'
  • Aaron Wightman green substitution 76'
  • Junior Ogedi-Uzokwe green substitution 46'
  • Niall McGinn green substitution 46'
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