Match Report: Seaford 5-1 Killester Donnycarney

LSL Saturday Major 1
​Rockfield Park

Seaford played their best football of the season and routed their promotion-chasing opponents with a vintage display at Rockfield Park, ending their dismal run of league defeats in the bargain.

It was a blistering start from the Penguins, who could have been three up in less than four minutes.  First, Jamie McCaul raced on to a long diagonal and smashed it into the side netting, before Ian Daly,  put Rob O'Shea clean though, ony for Stephen Brennan to deny him a goal. The ball rebounded to Ryan Scollard who smashed it goalward with his left, only for a a defender to block on the goalline.

Seaford continued to pour forward, and made the breakthrough on four minutes, when O'Shea released Fionn Nally to slot home his fourth of the campaign.

But the lead was short-lived. With their first attack of the game, Killester leveled when Jamie Thompson's 20 yard effort took a wicked deflection which Oisin Geoghegan gave no chance.

It almost got worse for Seaford when Calvin Madden whipped in a brilliant right-wing cross which was superbly defended by, Darragh Roche just as Javier Medina Jiménez was about to convert.

Otherwise though, it was one-way trafffic, as Seaford's front four battered the northsiders, who couldn't handle the relentless running from  Scollard, Nally and McCaul on and off the ball, with Daly orchestrating everything with adhesive control and uncanny vision.

It was Daly who laid Scollard in to make it 2-1, before O'Shea saw his low free kick experlyl saved by Brennan. Then Daly struck the crossbar with a vicious corker kick, and shorlty afterward saw another one flicked goalward by Sam Browne, only for Nathan Fitzpatrick to clear it off the line.

It was more of the same after the break, and it seemed only a matter of time before Seaford extended their lead. Eventually it was McCaul who nabbed it, poaching a third for the Penguins at the second attempt after Killester failed to deail with another Daly delivery.

Ben Kelly laid in .Scollard to make it 4-1 and Kelly ought to added one himself with a free header from yet another Daly whip. Instead it was another sub, Greg Hughes, who got the fifth with his first involvement off the bench, bursting down the left wing and smashing it into the top corner..

The hosts had the cigars out by now, but Killester almost got one back couresy of an extraordinary 40-yard Howitzer from Calvin Madden, but Geoghegan did well to parry it. Scollard might have had th efinal say by compelting his hat-trick but unselfishly tried to square it for Zitian Xiang  to score, but a a defender intervened.

A quick turnaround for Burnsie's boys, who take on Templeogue United on Saturday aiming for a third straight win.

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Darragh Roche, Brian Murphy,, Sam Browne (Craig Conlon, 78),  Al Kennedy  Rob O'Shea (Ben Kelly, h/t),, ,Thomas Murphy (Eoin Mahon, 75)  Fionn Nally (Greg Hughes, 80)  Ian Daly, Jamie McCaul (Zitian Xiang, 79) Ryan Scollard

Killester Donnycarney: 1 Stephen Brennan, 2 Jamie Keating, 3 Sean Connor, 4 Louis Butler, 5 Darragh Geraghty, 6 Jack Power, 9 Calvin Madden, 10 Malik Shushan, 11 Javier Medina Jiménez, 12 Stephen Power, 16 Jamie Thompson. Subs: 7 Daniel O'Mahony, 8 Cian Whelan, 13 Nathan Fitzpatrick, 14 Karl Crawford, 15 Michael O'Mahony, 17 Ryan Morris