Healy plays down Linfield's five-point lead

Linfield manager David Healy insisted he and his players "won't get carried away" after moving five points clear at the top of the Irish Premiership table following Sunday's 3-1 comeback win at Carrick Rangers.

Joe Crowe's third-minute goal put the hosts ahead but Kyle McClean levelled for Linfield on 77 minutes, with Joel Cooper immediately adding a second before Chris Shields' injury-time penalty.

"There's a long way to go," said Healy of the title race, with the Blues now five points clear of second-placed Cliftonville.

"We don’t get too high. We don’t get too low even though sometimes at Linfield, you want to get low because everybody, everything goes a little too negative."

Healy was pleased with his team's response to going behind.

"I don’t think we did an awful lot wrong in the first half. We found ourselves behind. We pushed but didn’t quite get the golden opportunities but we found a way, we stuck together in the second half.

"We certainly deserved to win the game in the end. We had enough ball. We had enough chances and then ultimately we scored the right amount of goals."