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Match Centre

Premiership
Tuesday 19 April 2022 (kick off: 7.45 PM)

Venue: Loughview Leisure Arena

Attendance: 325

Referee: Christopher Morrison

Carrick Rangers home-team
0 FT 1
away-team Glenavon
  •   Michael O'Connor 88'
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Michael O'Connor bagged Glenavon's late winner ©David Maginnis/Pacemaker Press

O'CONNOR STRIKES LATE FOR GLENAVON

Glenavon took a huge step towards securing a possible European play-off spot with victory over Carrick Rangers at the Loughview Leisure Arena.

The win moved Gary Hamilton's side four points ahead of only rivals Ballymena United with two games remaining.

A game of few chances, Carrick enjoyed the better of what opportunities were created in a scoreless first half with David Cushley firing over on ten minutes and Matthew Carson sending the ball straight at keeper Josh Clarke soon after while, around the half-hour mark, Alex Gawne saw a low drive held.

Glenavon came closest to breaking the deadlock early in the second half when Matthew Fitzpatrick saw a close range effort kept out by Aaron Hogg.

For Carrick Emmett McGuckin fired over with a quarter-of-an-hour to go, followed by another Clarke stop to deny Carson.

But the only goal of the game came with a couple of minutes remaining when Michael O'Connor whipped in a brilliant struck free-kick to secure the win for the visitors.

Carrick Rangers: Hogg, Surgenor, Ervin, Cushley, McMullan, McGuckin, D. Kelly, Gawne, Cherry, Glendinning, Carson subs Skeet (not used), Forsythe (replaced McMullan 45),  Gordon (not used), E. Kelly (replaced Carson 86), Chambers (not used), Waite (not used), Tilney (replaced Cherry 53)

Glenavon: Clarke, Birney, Haughey, Campbell, Snoddy, McCloskey, Fitzpatrick, Wallace, Singleton, Garrett, Ward subs Waterworth (replaced Birney 78), O’Connor (replaced Snoddy 69), Scannell (not used), O’Mahony (replaced McCloskey 24), Doyle (replaced Garrett 69), Lynch (not used), Norton (not used)

  • FULL TIME
    Carrick Rangers   0 - 1 Glenavon
  •  Yellow Card

    Reece Glendinning

    Carrick Rangers

    90+4'
  •  Yellow Card

    Jack O'Mahony

    Coleraine

    90+1'
  •  Yellow Card

    Peter Campbell

    Glenavon

    90'
  •  Yellow Card

    Jim Ervin

    Carrick Rangers

    88'
  • GOAL

    Michael O'Connor

    Glenavon

    88'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Matthew Carson

    Unregistered Players

    86'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Ewan Kelly

    Carrick Rangers

    86'
  •  Yellow Card

    Matthew Carson

    Unregistered Players

    81'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Calum Birney

    Glenavon

    78'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Andrew Waterworth

    Unregistered Players

    78'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Matthew Snoddy

    Glenavon

    69'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Robert Garrett

    Glenavon

    69'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Michael O'Connor

    Glenavon

    69'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Josh Doyle (1)

    Unregistered Players

    69'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Kyle Cherry

    Carrick Rangers

    53'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Ben Tilney

    Carrick Rangers

    53'
  •  Yellow Card

    Danny Wallace

    Glenavon

    47'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Corey McMullan

    Unregistered Players

    45'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Kurtis Forsythe

    Carrick Rangers

    45'
  •  Yellow Card

    David Cushley

    Carrick Rangers

    42'
  •  Yellow Card

    Mark Surgenor

    Carrick Rangers

    32'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Conor McCloskey

    Glenavon

    24'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Jack O'Mahony

    Coleraine

    24'

Carrick Rangers

  • Aaron Hogg
  • Mark Surgenor 32'
  • Jim Ervin 88'
  • David Cushley 42'
  • Corey McMullan red substitution 45'
  • Emmett McGuckin
  • Daniel Kelly
  • Alex Gawne
  • Kyle Cherry red substitution 53'
  • Reece Glendinning 90+4'
  • Matthew Carson 81' red substitution 86'

Substitutes

  • Matthew Skeet
  • Kurtis Forsythe green substitution 45'
  • Steven Gordon
  • Ewan Kelly green substitution 86'
  • Jack Chambers
  • Paul Waite
  • Ben Tilney green substitution 53'

Glenavon

  • Josh Clarke
  • Calum Birney red substitution 78'
  • Mark Haughey
  • Peter Campbell 90'
  • Matthew Snoddy red substitution 69'
  • Conor McCloskey red substitution 24'
  • Matthew Fitzpatrick
  • Danny Wallace 47'
  • James Singleton
  • Robert Garrett red substitution 69'
  • Sean Ward

Substitutes

  • Andrew Waterworth green substitution 78'
  • Michael O'Connor green substitution 69' 88'
  • Conor Scannell
  • Jack O'Mahony 90+1' green substitution 24'
  • Josh Doyle (1) green substitution 69'
  • Harry Lynch
  • Harry Norton

Carrick Rangers

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Glenavon

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