Linfield started on the front foot and opened the scoring through Frizzell after just nine minutes.<\/p>\n
Quick-thinking from Kyle McClean, from a free-kick, released the diminutive Scot who raced through a static Coleraine defence to blast his effort high past Lewis Webb in the home goal from 18 yards.<\/p>\n
It could, and should, have been 2-0 moments later and, again, Frizzell was involved.<\/p>\n
This time he whipped a cross in from the left towards unmarked striker Moore who headed it straight into the hands of the keeper from six yards.<\/p>\n
The Blues continued to dominate and they doubled their lead midway through the opening half.<\/p>\n
An Ethan McGee long throw was headed clear by a Coleraine defender only as far as Linfield captain Shields, who simply volleyed the ball into the roof of the net from 25 yards past a helpless Webb.<\/p>\n
Coleraine, the league’s highest scorers, failed to muster a shot on target in a frustrating 45 minutes for the hosts.<\/p>\n
Head coach Ruaidhri Higgins range the changes at half-time and it seemed as if the move had worked when Shevlin headed home Ben Doherty’s corner 10 minutes after the restart.<\/p>\n
Referee Evan Boyce disallowed the goal, awarding a free-kick which goalkeeper Chris Johns took quickly.<\/p>\n
The ball was then transferred to Moore who held his nerve to round his marker before planting a low shot into the corner of the net for his first goal in Linfield colours.<\/p>\n
The hosts pulled a goal back with just under 15 minutes remaining through top scorer Matthew Shevlin.<\/p>\n
The striker controlled a pass forward from Levi Ives before slipping the ball past Chris Johns from six yards for his fifth goal of the season.<\/p>\n
The Bannsiders huffed and puffed in the closing stages but could find no way through a dogged Linfield defence as they suffered a first home defeat in 10 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linfield started on the front foot and opened the scoring through Frizzell after just nine minutes. Quick-thinking from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-905458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}