Match Report: Seaford 5-1 Maynooth Town

Seaford bounced back from recent disappointments with a dominant win which consigned Maynooth to relegation.

Jamie McCaul bagged an early brace to given the Penguins a commanding lead, first tapping in Sam Browne's flick-on before finishing via a deflection for 2-0.

Seaford’s busy late-season schedule caught up with them as both Darragh Roche and Greg Hughes were forced off in the opening half hour, but it was nonetheless one-way traffic as the home side poured surged time and again.  Fionn Nally squared to give  Ian Daly a great chance, but he side-footed over the top, and then Nally had the ball in the net himself but was pinged for offside. 

The Penguins finished the half in complete control and it was incredible that they didn't add to their tally in the dying moments. McCaul forced an error from Lee Corcoran but keeper Corey McKeon did brilliantly to deny both him and Nally. McCaul then attempted an audacious lob from the near the halfway line that had McKeon scrambling backwards, but it was inches too high. And in stoppage time he had the best chance of all, heading over from an Al Kennedy throw-in with the goal at his mercy.

Instead, it was Maynooth who bagged shortly after half time. Glory Odunze seemed to clearly offside before thumping a high shot past Oisin Geoghegan, but the goal stood and suddenly Seaford seemed nervous, missing all of the fluency which they had shown before the break. Kennedy made a brilliant covering tackle to stop Odenze from equalising, and Thomas Lunn also went close from the edge of the box, as the hosts threatened to implode.

But gradually Burnsie's boys began to reassert themselves, with Timi Silva testing McKeon with a low drive, before the floodgates eventually opened.

Sam Browne got the crucial third goal, heading home Silva's corner before Silva volleyed home himself for 4-1, and the two Seaford centre backs combined for the fifth, as Browne nutmegged David Jordan Konan near the corner flag and played the ball along the edge of the six, where skipper Al Kennedy tapped in at the back post.

The three points finally moves Seaford out of the relegation zone, and still with five games in hand on the teams around them as they look to finish strongly and move up the standings.​

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Eoin Mahon, Brian Murphy,, Sam Browne (Fionn Geoghegan, 78) Craig Conlon, Al Kennedy Greg Hughes (MJ TIerney, 28) Fionn Nally, Darragh Roche (Timi Silva, 9)  Ian Daly (Niall Holleran, 81) Jamie McCaul  (Darragh Connolly, 76)

Maynooth Town: 1 Corey Mc Keon, 2 Ryan Moran, 3 Thomas Lunn, 4 Evan White, 5 Lee Corcoran, 6 Evan Hartnett, 7 Alan Dolan, 8 Reece Harman, 9 Sean O'Donnell, 10 Milosz Konczarek, 11 Glory Odunze. Subs: 12 James Kelly, 14 David Jordan Konan, 15 Ethan Hennessy​