Match Centre

Premiership
Friday 25 August 2023 (kick off: 7.45 PM)

Venue: Stangmore Park

Attendance: 872

Referee: Ian McNabb

Dungannon Swifts home-team
2 FT 2
away-team Coleraine
  •   Matthew Lusty 90+4'
  •   Ethan McGee 90+7'
  •   Darren Cole 65'
  •   David McDaid 85'
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Ethan McGee leads the celebrations following his late equaliser ©Dungannon Swifts FC

ANOTHER SWIFTS LATE LATE SHOW

Dungannon Swifts staged another late, late comeback to salvage a point from Coleraine's visit to Stangmore Park.

The Swifts started brightly, threatening early on when Kealan Dillon tested keeper Gareth Deane from 25 yards while, at the other end, Jamie Glackin went close on the counter attack.

Dillon proved to be a danger again after working into some space in midfield but could only send his subsequent effort narrowly past an upright.

Dungannon were reduced to ten men midway through the first half after John Scott was dismissed after receiving his second caution of the game.

Coleraine looked to exploit their numerical advantage soon after when Andy Scott sent a curling effort towards the far corner but keeper Niall Morgan was equal to the challenge.

Then, not long after that, Morgan was called into action again to deal with Lee Lynch's close range shot after he had been teed up by Glackin.

The Bannsiders couldn't to press early in the second half, with Graham Kelly firing too high from a good position before Jack O'Mahony twisted an effort past the post.

The deadlock was eventually broken on 65 minutes when Darren Cole met a Glackin corner to nod past Morgan from six yards out.

The visitors might have doubled their advantage soon after only for Scott to be able to finish off a Conor McKendry ball from the right while David McDaid also came close from a Lee McLaughlin pass but was denied by the woodwork.

Oran Kearney's side appeared to have wrapped up the points with five minutes remaining courtesy of a McDaid close range finish when Andrew Mitchell had knocked a Glackin corner into his path.

However the Swifts, now beginning to earn a reputation as the comeback kings, were thrown a 90th minute lifeline when Matthew Lusty blasted the ball past Gareth Deane from 12 yards.

And, remarkably, seven minutes into added time they levelled after skipper Ethan McGee pounced when a ball into the box wasn't cleared to rifle a volley into the net from the edge of the six yard box.

Dungannon Swifts: Morgan, McGee, J. Scott, Curry, Marron, Dillon, S. Scott, Glenny, Gallagher, Lusty, Whiteside subs Dunne, Owens, Devine, Moore, Alves, Harpur, Convie

Coleraine: Deane, Kane, Kelly, Jarvis, McKendry, McDaid, Lynch, Glackin, Cole, O’Mahony, Scott subs Gallagher, Farren, Mitchell, Wallace, McCrudden, McLaughlin, Doherty

  • FULL TIME
    Dungannon Swifts   2 - 2 Coleraine
  • GOAL

    Ethan McGee

    Linfield

    90+7'
  •  Yellow Card

    Lee McLaughlin

    Players

    90+7'
  • GOAL

    Matthew Lusty

    Larne

    90+4'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Graham Kelly

    Coleraine

    90+3'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Conor McKendry

    Larne

    90+3'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Andy Scott

    Ballymena United

    90+3'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Kieran Farren

    Players

    90+3'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Jake Wallace

    Players

    90+3'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Luca Doherty

    Moyola Park

    90+3'
  •  Yellow Card

    David McDaid

    Glenavon

    87'
  • GOAL

    David McDaid

    Glenavon

    85'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Kealan Dillon

    Dungannon Swifts

    80'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Adam Glenny

    Dungannon Swifts

    80'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Ethan Devine

    Ballymena United

    80'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Leo Alves

    Dungannon Swifts

    80'
  •  Yellow Card

    Niall Owens

    Dungannon Swifts

    73'
  •  Yellow Card

    Lyndon Kane

    Coleraine

    66'
  • GOAL

    Darren Cole

    Players

    65'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Ben Gallagher

    Players

    63'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Joseph Moore

    Ballymena United

    63'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jack O'Mahony

    Ballymena United

    63'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Andrew Mitchell

    Dungannon Swifts

    63'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Andrew Whiteside

    Limavady United

    26'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Niall Owens

    Dungannon Swifts

    26'
  •  Red Card

    John Scott

    Dungannon Swifts

    21'
  •  Yellow Card

    Caolan Marron

    Dungannon Swifts

    10'

Dungannon Swifts

  • Niall Morgan
  • John Scott 21'
  • Matthew Lusty 90+4'
  • Dean Curry
  • Caolan Marron 10'
  • Kealan Dillon red substitution 80'
  • Ethan McGee 90+7'
  • Steven Scott
  • Adam Glenny red substitution 80'
  • Ben Gallagher red substitution 63'
  • Andrew Whiteside red substitution 26'

Substitutes

  • Declan Dunne
  • Niall Owens 73' green substitution 26'
  • Ethan Devine green substitution 80'
  • Joseph Moore green substitution 63'
  • Leo Alves green substitution 80'
  • Ryan Harpur
  • James Convie

Coleraine

  • Gareth Deane
  • Lyndon Kane 66'
  • Graham Kelly red substitution 90+3'
  • Aaron Jarvis
  • Darren Cole 65'
  • Conor McKendry red substitution 90+3'
  • David McDaid 87' 85'
  • Lee Lynch
  • Jamie Glackin
  • Jack O'Mahony red substitution 63'
  • Andy Scott red substitution 90+3'

Substitutes

  • Martin Gallagher
  • Kieran Farren green substitution 90+3'
  • Andrew Mitchell green substitution 63'
  • Jake Wallace green substitution 90+3'
  • Michael McCrudden
  • Lee McLaughlin 90+7'
  • Luca Doherty green substitution 90+3'

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