Wicklow Cup
Avonmore 4
Greystones United 0
Ballygannon Park
Eoin Horkan
Avonmore United made home advantage count in this early Sunday morning
cup tie running out comfortable winners
against Greystones United.
From the opening kick off the home side started to control the game with
there front three players causing trouble from the start. One of these front three carved out the first
chance of the game when Fiacra O Hannain shot from the edge of the box flew narrowly
wide . The same man had another chance to score this time from a free kick .
His curling effort narrowly missed the post .
Mark Cullen was causing big trouble down the Avonmore right hand side.
His shot in the ninth minute was well saved in the away sides goal. Greystones playing in all green were finding
difficult to get through a strong Avonmore rear guard . The only chance they
got was from a dead ball . Mac Darragh
Kelly effort flew over the opposition bar .
Free kicks were starting to become a great chance for scoring .
This time it was Ryan Cahill for
Avonmore his effort grazed the outside
of the post . It was until the thirtieth
minute when the game really burst into life .
The home sides Cian O Hannain swung in a great ball into the box and
unfortunately for the retreating defender Dave O Sullivan he managed to divert
the ball into his own net .
With the game minutes away from half time the home team won a corner .
As the ball bobbled around the box . Cian O Hannain managed to head the ball
into the net to give his side a deserving lead going into the break .
The second half was nearly a
carbon copy of with Avonmore carving out some early half chances but couldn’t
get the third goal . It wasn’t until the sixty sixth minute when Avonmore managed
to get a toe to a loose ball in the box to win a penalty .
Fiacra O Hannain stepped up and drove the penalty into the corner while
the keeper stood motionless on his line . This goal effectively ended any
chance of a comeback from Greystones .
The home side expertly controlled the game from there on out . As the
crowd watched on and with five minutes to go Adam Tuke broke down the wing cut
inside and unleashed and unstoppable drive into the near post .
Avonmore are looking like one of the front runners to win this Wicklow
Cup competition.
Avonmore :1, Jason Porter, 2 Paudie O’ Toole , 3 Shane Beever, 4 Eugene
Dunne,5 Fiacra O Hannain, 6 Paddy Kennedy, 7 Cody Reid 8, Mark Cullen, 9, Ryan
Cahill, 10 Cian O Hannain, 11 Adam Tuke
Subs Used : Ross Williams for Paddy Kennedy
Greystones United : 1 Eoin English , 2 Sam Gammell, 3 Jamie Plant 4 Sean
Minogue , 5 Conor Mitchell, 6 Jack O Toole, 7 Sean Lawless, 8 Mac Darragh
Kelly, 9 John Luke Kelly, 10 Sam Kerr, 11 Dave O Sullivan
Subs Used: Ryan Johnson for Jamie Plant, Richie Carroll for Sam Gammell
, Jayson Healy for Mac Darragh Kelly
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