The heat is on for
the Bannsiders putting on a successful run and a surprising one in this
campaign but in the case of the Hachetmen looking forward to overcome last
campaign meltdown.
That allowed their cross-town
foes Linfield Blues lift the league shield and leaving the Crues out of contention
to net their third consecutive league shield and leaving their manager Stephen Baxter
furious after seeing in the last leg of the campaign his squad surrendering.
Still in a rare Friday
night schedule, the Danske Bank Premiership went on with a couple of matches
that at the end of this campaign will be its headline between two of its squads
Crusaders and Coleraine FC.
With a match schedule
in the colossus of Belfast located near Saint Vincent, today Seaview lived a one
of a kind match seeing their Boys maintain chase with a win and netting three
points of gold that nears them to the top spot.
This win put them
with 48 points and within six points of league leaders Coleraine with 54 points.
Despite the early
score from Ballymena United striker Matthew Shevlin in the 18 minute, the Sky
blues had this game dominated and possibly cruising to a valuable victory away
over a resilient and fighting Crues squad.
As these playing at
home are a force not to reckon with and today these showed off their willingness
to deliver another positive result that keeps them in the hunt for the league
shield and within a striking distance of the leaders.
One thing we know of
the Crues is their fighting spirit and today these put on the accelerator to
come back to mount on the score and deliver to their followers a nice Christmas
present with a meritorious win over the Sky Blues.
Before halftime, the
locals via Colin Coates beating the likes of Ballymena keeper Ross Glendinning for
the tie and breaking the visitor’s clean sheet before heading into intermission
with the score even.
Give the Cures an A
for efforts as in the 61 came the unthinkable and the err the Sky Blues messed their
chances with a foul inside the area and converted by Gavin Whyte that became
the go ahead and winning goal of the match.
In addition, despite
the efforts of the Sky Blues to try to even this match and with various chances
these try to convert, their efforts went futile; at the end Crues keeper
persevere, to assure a valuable win for his side.
No upset for the Sky Blues
in Seaview but its back to the drawing board for their manager David Jeffrey to
mount a comeback and try to pass the likes of Linfield Blues that have ten
points edge over them.
Interesting, you must
say as the North Ireland Football League is seeing a very exciting race for the
title between the Bannsiders and the Crues seeing the Coleraine Boys living a
fairy tale of a campaign and the Hachetmen trying their best to derailed their
hopes.
For now the Crues are
within distance and not surrendering any more points lead to Coleraine and keeping
their confidences up in mailing a possible move with the league to finish in
March but in the next month’s anything can happen.
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