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Ballymena Utd FC

2 – 2

Glenavon FC

Glenavon

Brown, Glynn, Birney, A Doyle, Snoddy, Fitzpatrick, Campbell, Wallace, Garrett, Malone, Ward. Subs: Kerr, Hall, Norton, Baird (Birney 87), Prendergast (Garrett 87), J Doyle (Fitzpatrick 79), Bradley (Snoddy 51).
Goals: Campbell 45+1, Prendergast 90+4
Red cards: Bradley 55, A Doyle 60
Bookings: Birney 31,

Match Preview

Football is back! Tomorrow will see the Glenavon squad make the trip to Ballymena for their first game of the 2022/23 campaign. Travelling support will need to pack their sunglasses and sun cream as the first away day of the new season is set to be a scorcher!

Glenavon go into the game following quite a successful pre-season campaign, with notable wins over Bangor FC and Dergview, with their most recent result being a 2-0 win over neighbours Dollingstown on Wednesday night.

Speaking to the Glenavon Media team, Gary summed up pre-season and gave his thoughts ahead of the new campaign.

Match Report

Ballymena United 2-2 Glenavon
Report by Michael Scott, courtesy of Your Lurgan

Aaron Prendergast’s late, late goal earned Glenavon a point in Saturday’s opening game of the Danske Bank Premiership away to Ballymena United.
Despite finishing the game with nine men, the tenatious Lurgan Blues fully deserved a share of the spoils.
They started with a number of new faces – Micheal Glynn, Jack Malone and Rory Brown all made their debuts while Eoin Bradley and Issac Baird both took their places on the bench.
The Glenavon supporters, who were praised after the game by Gary Hamilton, would have gone into the game full of early season optimism. That would have been rocked on four minutes when Paul McElroy headed the hosts in front with the first goal of the Premiership season.