Match Report
9 points and 9 places separated them: Warrenpoint Town 10th with 7, Newington Youth 1st with 16. Per game in the league, Warrenpoint Town were scoring 1.5 and conceding 1.67, Newington Youth 2.5 and 0.83, against a competition average of 1.71 goals per team per game.
Newington Youth entered with three wins in a row, having scored in 6 consecutive games. The five-game form split read 7/15 points for Warrenpoint Town against 13/15 for Newington Youth.
5 meetings are on record — 2 won by Warrenpoint Town, 3 by Newington Youth, 0 drawn, at 3.2 goals per meeting. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 60% of the meetings.
Milltown Playing Fields, capacity 5,000, hosted the game. Newington Youth led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-1.
Goal scorers
Newington Youth: Aaron Heaney (39')