Match Centre

Premiership
Saturday 19 August 2023 (kick off: 3.00 PM)

Venue: Solitude

Attendance: 1672

Referee: Lee Tavinder

Cliftonville home-team
4 FT 0
away-team Carrick Rangers
  •   Ben Wilson 6' 42'
  •   Ronan Doherty 24' (pen)
  •   Rory Hale 65'
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Ben Wilson and Rory Hale celebrate ©Stephen Hamilton/INPHO

RED HOT CLIFTONVILLE MARCH ON

Cliftonville stormed their way to the top of the table with a comprehensive defeat of Carrick Rangers at Solitude.

The Reds raced into an early lead when, after six minutes, Rory Hale won possession wide on the right and evaded a number of challenges before crossing into the box for Ben Wilson to tap home.

Kyle Cherry came close to levelling for Carrick soon after only to send his effort just wide of the far post after running onto a Danny Purkis through ball ... while Purkis sent a header just the wrong side of the target not long after that.

However Cliftonville doubled their advantage midway through the first half when Ronan Doherty converted from the spot, awarded after he had been brought down in the area, with a finish into the roof of Ross Glendinning's net.

To their credit the visitors kept pressing and almost reduced the deficit just after the half-hour mark only for Cherry to see an effort dip just over the crossbar.

But, for the third game in a row, Cliftonville went in at the break three goals to the good when - on 42 minutes - Wilson doubled his tally with a close range tap in after receiving another ball from skipper Hale.

And Hale himself completed the scoring midway through the second half after making the most of a poor clearance to lob the ball over the Rangers keeper.

Cliftonville: Gartside, Stewart, Addis, Gallagher, Hale, Lowe, Robinson, Doherty, Casey, Turner, Wilson subs Odumosu, Pepper, C. Curran, McDonagh, Storey, McGuinness, Berry

Carrick Rangers: Ross Glendinning, Forsythe, Stewart, Watson, Cushley, Mitchell, Buchanan-Rolleston, Crowe, Cherry, Purkis, Tilney subs McCauley, Surgenor, McGuckin, Allen, Maciulaitis, Montgomery, Reece Glendinning

  • FULL TIME
    Cliftonville   4 - 0 Carrick Rangers
  •  Yellow Card

    Emmett McGuckin

    Carrick Rangers

    90+1'
  •  Yellow Card

    Conor Pepper

    Cliftonville

    88'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Ben Wilson

    Players

    83'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jonathan Addis

    Cliftonville

    83'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Chris Curran

    Players

    83'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Gerard Storey

    Newington

    83'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Sean Stewart

    Cliftonville

    73'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Rory Hale

    Cliftonville

    73'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Stephen McGuinness

    Bangor

    73'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Jack Berry

    Cliftonville

    73'
  • GOAL

    Rory Hale

    Cliftonville

    65'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    David Cushley

    Carrick Rangers

    62'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Joe Crowe

    Carrick Rangers

    62'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Daniel Gibson

    Carrick Rangers

    62'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Mark Surgenor

    Carrick Rangers

    62'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Emmett McGuckin

    Carrick Rangers

    62'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Curtis Allen

    Carrick Rangers

    62'
  •  Yellow Card

    Joe Crowe

    Carrick Rangers

    60'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Jamie Robinson

    H&W Welders

    54'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Conor Pepper

    Cliftonville

    54'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Andy Mitchell

    Carrick Rangers

    46'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Reece Glendinning

    Carrick Rangers

    46'
  • GOAL

    Ben Wilson

    Players

    42'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Benjamin Buchanan-Rolleston

    Carrick Rangers

    28'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Nedas Maciulaitis

    Carrick Rangers

    28'
  • PENALTY SCORED

    Ronan Doherty

    Cliftonville

    24'
  •  Yellow Card

    David Cushley

    Carrick Rangers

    9'
  • GOAL

    Ben Wilson

    Players

    6'

Cliftonville

  • Nathan Gartside
  • Sean Stewart red substitution 73'
  • Ben Wilson red substitution 83' 6' 42'
  • Jonathan Addis red substitution 83'
  • Odhran Casey
  • Ronan Doherty 24'
  • Chris Gallagher
  • Rory Hale red substitution 73' 65'
  • Kris Lowe
  • Jamie Robinson red substitution 54'
  • Luke Turner

Substitutes

  • David Odumosu
  • Conor Pepper 88' green substitution 54'
  • Chris Curran green substitution 83'
  • Jamie McDonagh
  • Gerard Storey green substitution 83'
  • Stephen McGuinness green substitution 73'
  • Jack Berry green substitution 73'

Carrick Rangers

  • Ross Glendinning
  • Kurtis Forsythe
  • Cameron Stewart
  • Albert Watson
  • David Cushley 9' red substitution 62'
  • Andy Mitchell red substitution 46'
  • Benjamin Buchanan-Rolleston red substitution 28'
  • Joe Crowe 60' red substitution 62'
  • Kyle Cherry
  • Daniel Gibson red substitution 62'
  • Ben Tilney

Substitutes

  • Ben McCauley
  • Mark Surgenor green substitution 62'
  • Emmett McGuckin 90+1' green substitution 62'
  • Curtis Allen green substitution 62'
  • Nedas Maciulaitis green substitution 28'
  • Jack Montgomery
  • Reece Glendinning green substitution 46'
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