Match Centre

Premiership
Tuesday 2 April 2024 (kick off: 7.45 PM)

Venue: Taylors Avenue

Attendance: 1718

Referee: Evan Boyce

Carrick Rangers home-team
2 FT 3
away-team Linfield
  •   Nedas Maciulaitis 6'
  •   Curtis Allen 82'
  •   Joel Cooper 42'
  •   Ethan McGee 60'
  •   Kyle McClean 78'
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Ethan McGee celebrates edging Linfield in front on the hour ©Stephen Davison/Pacemaker Press

BLUES COME FROM BEHIND TO DEFEAT 'GERS

Linfield hit back from a goal down to defeat Carrick Rangers at the Loughview Leisure Arena.

Needing a sizeable victory to make the top six, Carrick got off to just the start they wanted when Nedas Maciulaitis headed them in front after just six minutes after his initial effort had been cleared off the line by Kirk Millar.

Linfield responded positively, and might have levelled when Kyle McClean was denied from close range by keeper Ross Glendinning, while Joel Cooper was also thwarted a few minutes after that.

But Carrick could have doubled their lead just after the half-hour mark when Maciulaitis did well to find some space before firing just wide of the left post.

However Linfield did bag their equaliser three minutes from the break when Cooper went one better with a close range header after Jamie Mulgrew had sent the ball over from the left.

The Blues then moved in front on the hour, with Ethan McGee finding the bottom right corner from outside the box after picking the ball up in midfield and going past two defenders before finishing with his left-foot.

David Healy's hit a third with 12 minutes remaining. A good move ended with Kyle McClean getting on the end of a Matthew Clarke cross to score from an acute angle.

Carrick did pull one back on 82 minutes after substitute Curtis Allen - only on the pitch a matter of moments - converted Danny Gibson's cross from close range.

Carrick Rangers: Glendinning, Stewart, Gordon, Cushley, Mitchell, Maciulaitis, MacKinnon, Buchanan-Rolleston, Crowe, Gibson, Teelan subs McCauley, Forsythe, Allen, Cherry, Withers, Arnold, Tilney

Linfield: Johns, Finlayson, Newberry, Millar, McClean, Cooper, Hall, Clarke, Mulgrew, McGee, Fitzpatrick subs Walsh, Shields, Stewart, McBrien, McCullough, Annett, Graham

  • FULL TIME
    Carrick Rangers   2 - 3 Linfield
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Joel Cooper

    Linfield

    89'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Darragh McBrien

    Linfield

    89'
  •  Yellow Card

    Lewis MacKinnon

    Portadown

    86'
  • GOAL

    Curtis Allen

    Carrick Rangers

    82'
  • GOAL

    Kyle McClean

    Linfield

    78'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Nedas Maciulaitis

    Carrick Rangers

    76'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Curtis Allen

    Carrick Rangers

    76'
  •  Yellow Card

    Ben Hall

    Linfield

    73'
  • red subsititutions  Substitution

    Andy Mitchell

    Carrick Rangers

    66'
  • green subsititutions  Substitution

    Kurtis Forsythe

    Carrick Rangers

    66'
  • GOAL

    Ethan McGee

    Linfield

    60'
  •  Yellow Card

    Jamie Mulgrew

    Linfield

    45'
  • GOAL

    Joel Cooper

    Linfield

    42'
  •  Yellow Card

    Chris Johns

    Linfield

    12'
  • GOAL

    Nedas Maciulaitis

    Carrick Rangers

    6'

Carrick Rangers

  • Ross Glendinning
  • Cameron Stewart
  • Steven Gordon
  • David Cushley
  • Andy Mitchell red substitution 66'
  • Nedas Maciulaitis red substitution 76' 6'
  • Lewis MacKinnon 86'
  • Benjamin Buchanan-Rolleston
  • Joe Crowe
  • Daniel Gibson
  • James Teelan

Substitutes

  • Ben McCauley
  • Kurtis Forsythe green substitution 66'
  • Curtis Allen green substitution 76' 82'
  • Kyle Cherry
  • Jaydyn Withers
  • William Arnold
  • Ben Tilney

Linfield

  • Chris Johns 12'
  • Daniel Finlayson
  • Michael Newberry
  • Kirk Millar
  • Joel Cooper red substitution 89' 42'
  • Ben Hall 73'
  • Matthew Clarke
  • Jamie Mulgrew 45'
  • Ethan McGee 60'
  • Matthew Fitzpatrick
  • Kyle McClean 78'

Substitutes

  • David Walsh
  • Chris Shields
  • Jordan Stewart
  • Darragh McBrien green substitution 89'
  • Dane McCullough
  • Rhys Annett
  • Braiden Graham
© Stephen Davison/Pacemaker Press

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