U13 Boys Trophy
Wicklow 2
Longford 4
Evergreen Park Kilkenny
Eoin Horkan
A strong second half comeback
was enough to see Longford bring the U13 trophy back west from Kilkenny Sunday
evening.
It was Longford who started
this game at a lightning pace as from the opening kick-off midfielder Mia
Murtagh attempted to lob the Wicklow goalkeeper but Lucy Doyle collected the
ball over her head. Minutes later Adam Kinlon tested Doyle again but the
Wicklow net minder stood strong to keep out the goal bound effort. It was
against the run of play that Wicklow opened the scoring as Sam Conyard broke
forward down the left before laying the
ball back to his twin brother Kale who curled an effort into the top corner
inside ten minutes. Wicklow piled on the pressure after this with the Conyards
controlling the middle of the park. This control led to there second goal when
striker David McCormac broke away and was awarded a penalty which he converted
himself to double his sided lead.
It was all Wicklow after the
second goal as ten minutes later they had the ball in the net again but James
McBride’s effort was ruled out for offside. The last chance of the for his side
fell to Sam Conyard who tried to replicate his twin’s goal , unfortunately his
effort narrowly missed the far post. With the last attack of the half the
opposition broke away through Alvin
Kontoh who fired an effort against the post from an acute angle.
The half time interval didn’t
stop Wicklow as within minutes of the resumption they had netted again only for
the flag to be raised for a second time. Longford were holding the opposition
at bay barely resulting in plenty of corners. One of these corners landed on
the head of Cillian Maher whose effort flew over the bar. As the opponents started
to empty the bench one of them made an immediate
impact winning an penalty which was converted by Mia Murtagh. With the next play Tim Kenny controlled the ball well on the
edge of the box before laying in off to Oisin Kiernan to finish into the corner to level the tie
halfway through the half.
The team from the west had hit
their purple patch and this didn’t let up as five minutes later they had taken
the lead after some great work by Kinlon and a fantastic save by Doyle this wasn’t enough as Kontoh gave his side the
lead. As Wicklow pushed forward to search for the equaliser they couldn’t break
through a resolute Longford rear-guard and with three minutes left Oisin Dillon
broke away on the counterattack to finish off the tie with an expert finish.
Wicklow; 20 Lucy Doyle F, 2 Shane Doyle, 3 Tristan Fogarty, 4 Cillian Maher, 5 Rhys Behan, 14 Samuel Moraghan, 7 Sam Conyard, 8 Kale Conyard, 9 David McCormac, 10 Failim
Redmond, 11 Cian Murphy.
Subs Used; 17 James McBride, 16 Zach Cavanagh, 18 Alex Murphy, 13 Tiernan Shorthall
Longford; 1 Thomas Reilly, Tim
Kenny, 14 Kamdi Aguneche, 3 Owen Kenny, 5 Alfie Murphy, 6 Kacper Slezak, 7 Ryan Kenny, 8 Mia Murtagh, 9 Oisin Dillon,
10 Adam Kinlon, 16 Alvin Kontoh.
Subs Used; 11 Oisin Kiernan,
15 Oliver Brychy, 2 Kian Treacy, 4 Daire Kilmurray, 20 Cormac Regan, 13 MJ
Mifya.
Referee: Noel Connolly.
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