{"id":10843,"date":"2019-11-11T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2019-11-11T16:24:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:24:04","slug":"second-half-fight-back-secures-a-derby-win-for-north-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/11\/second-half-fight-back-secures-a-derby-win-for-north-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Second half fight back secures a derby win for North Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'CG Times','serif';\">North Down <span class=\"s1\">made the short journey to play local rivals Bangor at the Aurora Centre last Saturday in the Premier League hoping to make amends for their disappointing previous week\u2019s loss at Newry<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'CG Times','serif';\">Playing conditions were challenging and both teams took time to settle into their rhythm.\u00a0 It was Bangor who struck first in the opening quarter from a short corner despite North Down enjoying the majority of the possession.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'CG Times','serif';\">The away side remained patient and with more clinical finishing could have scored a handful before half time with the far post coming to Bangor\u2019s rescue on more than one occasion. Nonetheless it remained 1-0 for the home side at half time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'CG Times','serif';\">With having most of the play, the comeback was only a matter of time and it arrived in the third quarter when Gareth\u2019s McKeown shot was helped into the net by a Bangor defender. Moments later North Down were ahead with a calmly taken penalty stroke from\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'CG Times','serif';\">David Morris. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'CG Times','serif';\">Bangor to their credit kept pressing to try and force an equaliser but North Down remained dominant and James Clark made sure of the spoils with a skilful near post finish.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'CG Times','serif';\">Final score, a 3-1 derby win for North Down. The team host Queens next Saturday and hope to secure a run of points in the coming weeks ahead of the Christmas break.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'CG Times','serif';\">Burch Autos Man of the Match was James Clark.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10843 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Copy-of-James-Clark-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Copy-of-James-Clark-3-300x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Copy-of-James-Clark-3-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Copy-of-James-Clark-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Down made the short journey to play local rivals Bangor at the Aurora Centre last Saturday in the Premier League hoping to make amends for their disappointing previous week\u2019s loss at Newry Playing conditions were challenging and both teams took time to settle into their rhythm.\u00a0 It was Bangor who struck first in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-match-reports","category-mens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10845,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions\/10845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}