Match Centre

Premiership
Saturday 14 December 2019 (kick off: 3.00 PM)

Venue: Milltown

Attendance: 407

Referee: Steven Gregg

Warrenpoint Town home-team
0 FT 2
away-team Linfield
  •   Andrew Waterworth 1'
  •   Shayne Lavery 90+1'
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Shayne Lavery knocks home Linfield's second goal ©INPHO/Brian Little

LEADERS LINFIELD WIN AT MILLTOWN

A goal at either end of the game handed leaders Linfield victory over bottom of the table Warrenpoint Town at Milltown.

The Blues needed just 47 seconds to open the scoring when Andrew Waterworth lifted the ball over keeper Mark Byrne from the edge of the box after holding off the attention of defender Anto Reilly.

Despite that bright opening there were few efforts of note for the remainder of the first half although, right at the end, Joel Cooper got past the home defence before teeing up Jimmy Callacher in front of goal but his contact wasn't strong enough to trouble keeper Byrne.

Shayne Lavery had a chance early in the second half but, from close range, he couldn't keep his header from Stephen Fallon's on target.

Chris Casement was next to have a go for Linfield but Byrne was untroubled followed, a few minutes later, by a Waterworth shot at the near post which the 'Point keeper once more kept out.

Jordan Stewart then offered up a 25-yard free-kick which flashed just wide of the post as Linfield kept pressing for that elusive second goal.

It eventually arrived on 91 minutes when Lavery raced onto a long Rohan Ferguson punt forward to get behind the defence and touch the ball past the advancing Byrne.

Warrenpoint Town: Byrne, Bennett, Reilly, O'Sullivan, O'Connor, McVeigh, Young, Watters, Cowan, Wallace, Mullen subs Turker (not used), McCann (replaced O'Sullivan 7), O'Kane (not used), Murnaghan (replaced Watters 70), McDonnell (not used), Daly (not used)

Linfield: Ferguson, Robinson, Callacher, Waterworth, Cooper, Stewart, Lavery, Clarke, Fallon, Mulgrew, Casement subs Moore (not used), Haughey (not used), Shevlin (replaced Lavery 90+2), Kearns (not used), Hery (not used), McGivern (not used), Mitchell (not used)

  • FULL TIME
    Warrenpoint Town   0 - 2 Linfield
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Shayne Lavery

    Unregistered Players

    90+2'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Matthew Shevlin

    Coleraine

    90+2'
  • GOAL

    Shayne Lavery

    Unregistered Players

    90+1'
  •  Yellow Card

    Dermot McVeigh

    Unregistered Players

    73'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Deane Watters

    Unregistered Players

    70'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Lorcan Murnaghan

    Unregistered Players

    70'
  •  Yellow Card

    Shayne Lavery

    Unregistered Players

    36'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Alan O'Sullivan

    Unregistered Players

    7'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Ciaran McCann

    Unregistered Players

    7'
  • GOAL

    Andrew Waterworth

    Unregistered Players

    1'

Warrenpoint Town

  • Mark Byrne
  • Emmet Bennett
  • Anton Reilly
  • Dermot McVeigh 73'
  • Jake O'Connor
  • Alan O'Sullivan red substitution 7'
  • Conall Young
  • Deane Watters red substitution 70'
  • Kris Cowan
  • Danny Wallace
  • Ben Mullen

Substitutes

  • Berraat Turker
  • Ciaran McCann green substitution 7'
  • Ryan O'Kane
  • Lorcan Murnaghan green substitution 70'
  • Ryan McDonnell
  • Thomas Daly

Linfield

  • Rohan Ferguson
  • Joshua Robinson
  • Jimmy Callacher
  • Andrew Waterworth 1'
  • Joel Cooper
  • Jordan Stewart
  • Shayne Lavery 36' red substitution 90+2' 90+1'
  • Matthew Clarke
  • Stephen Fallon
  • Jamie Mulgrew
  • Chris Casement

Substitutes

  • Alex Moore
  • Matthew Shevlin green substitution 90+2'
  • Daniel Kearns
  • Bastien Hery
  • Ryan McGivern
  • Andy Mitchell
  • Mark Haughey

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