We opened our league Campaign on Thursday evening away to Listowel. We stared brightly when Captain John O’Connor played a lovely ball through the 2 centre backs for Leon Gallagher who superbly lobbed the on rushing keeper to put us up 1-0 after 2 minutes. But Listowel pulled a goal back within 5 minutes when they won a free kick on the edge of our area when we had good opportunities to clear but failed to do so and got punished when the free kick was struck high into the roof of our net. The game went a bit hectic after the equaliser but we found our way back in front when John played another sublime pass out wide to Earnan Ferris burst in off left wing brushed by the defender and hit a powerful shot into the roof of the net. Listowel fought hard to peg is back but our back line of Sean Broerick(gk) Graham Sheehy James Charles Alan and Cian Brosnan were outstanding to ensured that it remained 2-1 at the break.
The second half we swapped our keeper and on came DJ Griffin, Earnan made it 3-1 with another delicate chip over the keeper to score his second this time the assist coming from Cian Brosnan by that time we also introduced Darragh Caplis just after the half and he had himself a fine half bagging 2 goals, his second all his own making when he controlled a long clearance from Armin Heinrich, he took the ball on his chest just inside his own half, turned the defender and raced towards the goal with the Listowel defence hot on his heels he had the pace to keep ahead of them to round the on rushing keeper who made firm contact with Darragh but his eyes were focused on the goal and did brilliantly to stay on his feet and keep the ball under control to put it into an empty net.5-1 Darragh o Connor and Cianan Cooney came into the fray and the scores ins increased once more with Earnan Ferris get his much deserved hat trick with an absolute beauty the ball was hanging in the air when Earnan flew into the air smashing in an overhead scissor kick that no keeper would have kept out. All in all a fantastic team performance.
Best on the day were Alan Brosnan James Charles Armin Heinrich John o Connor Darragh Caplis Leon Gallagher
Man of the Match Earnan Ferris.
Match report by Robert Powell .
