Crues win to remain unbeaten as Glens see off Reds

Crusaders scored doubly successful arsenic galore second-half minutes to travel from down to hit Carrick Rangers 2-1 astatine Seaview and stay unbeaten successful their 4 Irish Premiership games this season.

A Daniel Larmour extremity and Kieran Offord's 4th successful 4 matches saw nan Crues bounce backmost from conceding Curtis Allen's early onslaught and move 2nd successful nan table, 3 points down leaders Linfield pinch a crippled successful hand.

Across Belfast astatine nan Oval, Jordan Jenkins' stunning early onslaught proved capable to unafraid a 1-0 triumph complete Cliftonville, who tasted conclusion for nan first clip this term.

The Glens move into 3rd spot, level connected points pinch Crusaders and nan fourth-placed Reds.

Goals successful either half from Gael Bigirimana and substitute John McGovern saw Dungannon Swifts spot disconnected Loughgall 2-0 astatine Lakeview Park, their 2nd successive triumph elevating them to 5th position.

Larne will belatedly statesman nan defence of nan title they person won for nan past 2 seasons erstwhile they look Coleraine astatine Ballycastle Road connected Sunday (14:15 BST).

Carrick went successful beforehand successful nan seventh infinitesimal arsenic erstwhile Seaview favourite Paul Heatley collapsed into a vulnerable area earlier passing to Danny Gibson.

His changeable was pushed distant by keeper Jonny Tuffey but Allen reacted quickest to threat up nan rebound.

Allen believed he had doubled his and Carrick’s tally connected nan half-hour erstwhile he poked location from adjacent scope aft Cameron Stewart had headed down Mark Surgenor’s free footwear but a precocious emblem from nan referee’s adjunct trim short nan celebrations.

The crippled swung dramatically successful a two-minute spell conscionable aft nan hr people arsenic Crusaders scored twice.

Firstly, Jarlath O’Rourke’s superb right-footed transverse pursuing a area was met pinch a backmost station diving header by Larmour.

Then conscionable 2 minutes later, Jordan Forsythe’s done shot divided nan Carrick defence and Offord ran done to find nan nett and condemn their opponents to a 3rd consecutive defeat.

The pivotal infinitesimal unfolded conscionable 2 minutes into Saturday's Oval brushwood erstwhile Paddy McClean picked retired Jenkins, who initially faltered successful controlling it, but quickly atoned and launched a breathtaking volley into nan apical near corner, rendering David Odumosu helpless.

Buoyed by that early boost, Declan Devine's broadside sustained their violative pressure, but nan northbound Belfast outfit should person been level astatine half-time erstwhile Joe Gormley group up Ryan Markey, whose first-time changeable from 12 yards was brilliantly blocked by Fuad Sule.

The Glens continued to frighten aft nan break, pinch nan influential Dylan Connolly teeing up David Fisher, who recovered himself unmarked successful nan box. Fisher, however, was expertly thwarted by nan awesome Odumosu.

Jim Magilton's charges refused to capitulate. They pressed for an equaliser, pinch Ryan Curran curling a changeable narrowly wide successful nan 62nd minute, past later seeing his effort from 12 yards brilliantly blocked by James Singleton aft being recovered successful nan area by Joe Gormley.

As nan lucifer drew to a close, nan hosts had further opportunities to widen their lead done Connolly and Fisher but were denied. Devine's charges held patient to declare their first triumph astatine location and only their 2nd triumph astatine location against nan apical six successful their past 10 attempts.

A extremity early successful each half saw Dungannon grounds a first distant triumph of nan season, beating section rivals Loughgall 2-0.

Bigirimana headed nan visitors successful beforehand aft 38 minutes earlier McGovern sealed nan points pinch a composed decorativeness connected nan hr mark.

The visitors opened nan scoring pinch a well-timed tally into nan box, Bigirimana getting connected nan extremity of an inviting Bobby-Jack McAleese transverse to caput location from six yards.

Ryan Waide had forced a good prevention retired of Swifts’ ‘keeper Grogan aft a 4th of an hr arsenic nan hosts recovered nan going reliable against a good organised Dungannon defence.

At nan different extremity Tomas Galvin wasted a glorious chance aft nan shot collapsed kindly to him wrong nan punishment area but inexplicably dragged his changeable wide of nan station pinch nan extremity gaping.

The Swifts doubled their lead connected nan hr people and, again, McAleese was involved, creating abstraction for himself connected nan separator of nan Loughgall punishment area earlier squaring to McGovern, who had nan elemental task of uncovering nan nett from 10 yards.

Fellow 2nd half replacement, Thomas Maguire, thought he had made it 3-0 successful nan closing stages but his debased thrust cannoned to information disconnected nan ft of a post.