{"id":461708,"date":"2026-03-07T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461708\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:02:10","slug":"larne-beat-glens-on-penalties-to-advance-to-irish-cup-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461708\/","title":{"rendered":"Larne beat Glens on penalties to advance to Irish Cup semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a first half of few chances, Andy Ryan came closest to breaking the deadlock for the visitors as he forced Andrew Mills into a smart save down to his right midway through the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just as it looked like both sides would be going in level at the break, the deadlock was broken in the first half added time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A neat Glentoran move saw Pat Hoban tee up Palmer with a tidy flick, with the midfielder taking one touch before striking back across goal into the bottom corner with Rohan Ferguson rooted to the spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Glens resumed the second half much like they did the first, with real intensity and fight without creating anything meaningful in regards to clear cut opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the game made its way into the final 15 minutes, the Inver Reds drew level through Ryan who tapped home from a few yards out after substitute Conor McKendry found him inside the six yard box with a pinpoint square ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts were reduced to 10 men just minutes before full-time, with Kamson Kamara sent for an early shower for a second bookable offence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Larne were determined to make their one-man advantage tell in extra-time, but couldn&#8217;t find a winner meaning penalties would determine the outcome of the Irish Cup quarter-final clash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ferguson was the hero for Larne, saving three penalties to send the Inver Reds racing into the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a first half of few chances, Andy Ryan came closest to breaking the deadlock for the visitors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-461708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}