{"id":561376,"date":"2026-07-21T21:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561376\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:06:21","slug":"champions-league-qualifying-dominant-red-star-hit-larne-for-four-at-inver-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561376\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League qualifying: Dominant Red Star hit Larne for four at Inver Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was always going to be a busy night for the Larne defenders against the class of the Red Star attackers, but they limited the visitors to very little in the opening half of the first period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was until VAR intervened and referee Rares George Vidican pointed to the spot following a brief look at the monitor where he deemed Tomas Cosgrove had handled the ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bruno Duarte made no mistake from 12-yards and sent Rohan Ferguson the wrong way to find the bottom right-hand corner with a cool finish on 26 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although the Serbian side continued to dominate proceedings, they couldn&#8217;t find a way past the resolute Larne defence from open play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was until 10 minutes into the second half when Red Star doubled their lead through Kostov after some lovely work from substitute Osman Bukari down the right-hand side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Red Star had their third 12 minutes later with a second strike from Bruno Duarte who found the bottom right-hand corner after a brilliant attacking move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Substitute Cham put the icing on the cake for the visitors on 85 minutes with the pick of the bunch as he fired into the top right-hand corner from the edge of the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was always going to be a busy night for the Larne defenders against the class of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-561376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}