Match Centre

Premiership
Saturday 7 September 2024 (kick off: 3.00 PM)

Venue: Inver Park

Attendance: 1482

Referee: Ross Dunlop

Larne home-team
0 FT 1
away-team Ballymena United
  •   Ben Kennedy 85'
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Ben Kennedy celebrates his winning goal ©Des Loughrey / Pacemaker Press

SKY BLUES STUN CHAMPIONS AT INVER

Ballymena United stunned reigning champions Larne with victory at Inver Park in the Sports Direct Premiership.

It was a quiet first half in the derby clash, which burst to life early in the second half when Andy Ryan struck the crossbar for the home side on 50 minutes.

Ballymena carved out the first effort on target just before the hour mark as Ben Kennedy but struck low effort from outside the box to force a save from Rohan Ferguson.

With five minutes remaining Ballymena's in form talisman Kennedy headed home from a corner for the winner, which leaves the champions still looking for their first league win of the campaign.

Larne: Ferguson, Want, Ives, Donnelly, Thomson, Magee, Todd, Cosgrove, Sloan, Gallagher, Ryan subs D. Graham (not used), McKendry (replaced Thomson 59), O'Neill (replaced Magee 83), S. Graham (replaced Ives 79), Marsh (replaced Donnelly 83), McEneff, Seary

Ballymena United: O'Neill, Nelson, Lafferty, Rocks, Jarvis, Kennedy, Scott, McCurry, McCallion, McMuray, Carson subs Johnston (not used), Coates (not used), Gawne (replaced Lafferty 73), Place (replaced Scott 90+5), Devine (replaced McMurray 81), Stewart (not used), Hood (not used)

  • FULL TIME
    Larne   0 - 1 Ballymena United
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Andy Scott

    Ballymena United

    90+5'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Mikey Place

    Ballymena United

    90+5'
  •  Yellow Card

    Donal Rocks

    Ballymena United

    90'
  •  Yellow Card

    Ethan Devine

    Ballymena United

    86'
  • GOAL

    Ben Kennedy

    Ballymena United

    85'
  •  Yellow Card

    Josh Seary

    Larne

    84'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Aaron Donnelly

    Larne

    83'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Benjamin Magee

    Larne

    83'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Paul O'Neill

    Larne

    83'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Josh Seary

    Larne

    83'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jonathan McMurray

    Ballymena United

    81'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Ethan Devine

    Ballymena United

    81'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Levi Ives

    Larne

    79'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Sean Graham

    Larne

    79'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Daniel Lafferty

    Ballymena United

    73'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Alex Gawne

    Ballymena United

    73'
  •  Yellow Card

    Andy Scott

    Ballymena United

    70'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Shaun Want

    Larne

    59'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Joe Thomson

    Larne

    59'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Conor McKendry

    Larne

    59'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Jordan McEneff

    Larne

    59'

Larne

  • Rohan Ferguson
  • Shaun Want red substitution 59'
  • Levi Ives red substitution 79'
  • Aaron Donnelly red substitution 83'
  • Joe Thomson red substitution 59'
  • Benjamin Magee red substitution 83'
  • Sam Todd
  • Tomas Cosgrove
  • Dylan Sloan
  • Chris Gallagher
  • Andy Ryan

Substitutes

  • Dylan Graham
  • Conor McKendry green substitution 59'
  • Paul O'Neill green substitution 83'
  • Sean Graham green substitution 79'
  • George Marsh
  • Jordan McEneff green substitution 59'
  • Josh Seary 84' green substitution 83'

Ballymena United

  • Sean O'Neill
  • Kym Nelson
  • Daniel Lafferty red substitution 73'
  • Donal Rocks 90'
  • Aaron Jarvis
  • Ben Kennedy 85'
  • Andy Scott 70' red substitution 90+5'
  • Calvin McCurry
  • Daithi McCallion
  • Jonathan McMurray red substitution 81'
  • Josh Carson

Substitutes

  • Sam Johnston
  • Colin Coates
  • Alex Gawne green substitution 73'
  • Mikey Place green substitution 90+5'
  • Ethan Devine 86' green substitution 81'
  • Noah Stewart
  • James Hood
© Brian Little / Presseye

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