Match Report: Phoenix 3-0 Seaford Rock United
LSL Sat Major 1c
No goals, no points, no shots on target, and no longer any prospect of promotion, it seems, for Seaford's firsts after a dismal night in Scribblestown, as Phoenix ran out deserved and comfortable winners.
Seaford never made any impact on the game in an attacking side, whilst the home side had pace and penetration on the break and took their chances clinically.
.Centre back Liam Meehan had already worked Seaford keeper Eoin English with an impressive volley from Alan Murray's delivery before the whites took the lead on 13 minutes. Martin Cassin lifted the ball over Paddy Costello, and then took advantage of a favourable bounce before lobbing English top open the scoring.
The rest of the half was punctuated by a string of niggle free kicks, and a long stoppage whilst Meehan received treatment following a clash of heads, with little goalmouth action.
Although Seaford made a marginal improvement at the start of the second period, they were unable to work Tiernan Clerkin in the Phoenix goal, and it was the home side who notched again on 72 minutes. A back-post corner was nodded into the path of Kevin Geoghegan, whose volley was hacked clear by Stephen Faherty at the goalpost, only for ref Claudiu Cimpoesu to decide the ball had already crossed the line.
The visitors continued to labour. Their best chance fell to substitute Mark Sullivan with seven minutes to play, after a fine burst forward by Faherty, but the pacey front man shanked his effort wide.
Cassin made it 3-0 in the dying minutes, with a counter-attack sucker-punch as Seaford streamed forward. The striker ran onto skipper Mark Corry's pass to round English and slot home, and there was even time for Cassin to miss a golden opportunity to compete a hat-trick, even if a rout of that magnitude would have been harsh on the visitors.
Seaford: E English; S Kane, J Bannon; C Fahy, P Costello; A Finnegan (A Brennan, 65), D Devaney (M Sullivan, 65), R O'Huiginn S Faherty; C Dolan (J Nolan, 74), P Lydon
Phoenix: Tiernan Clerkin, Ciaran Cronin, Mark Kinsella (Connor Healy, 54), Adam Murtagh, Liam Meehan, Eoin Sweeney, Alan Murray (James Platt, 73), Mark Corry, Martin Cassin, Kevin Geoghegan (Eoin Brennan, 78), Karl Fitzgibbon,
Scribblestown, 8 April 2016
Seaford never made any impact on the game in an attacking side, whilst the home side had pace and penetration on the break and took their chances clinically.
.Centre back Liam Meehan had already worked Seaford keeper Eoin English with an impressive volley from Alan Murray's delivery before the whites took the lead on 13 minutes. Martin Cassin lifted the ball over Paddy Costello, and then took advantage of a favourable bounce before lobbing English top open the scoring.
The rest of the half was punctuated by a string of niggle free kicks, and a long stoppage whilst Meehan received treatment following a clash of heads, with little goalmouth action.
Although Seaford made a marginal improvement at the start of the second period, they were unable to work Tiernan Clerkin in the Phoenix goal, and it was the home side who notched again on 72 minutes. A back-post corner was nodded into the path of Kevin Geoghegan, whose volley was hacked clear by Stephen Faherty at the goalpost, only for ref Claudiu Cimpoesu to decide the ball had already crossed the line.
The visitors continued to labour. Their best chance fell to substitute Mark Sullivan with seven minutes to play, after a fine burst forward by Faherty, but the pacey front man shanked his effort wide.
Cassin made it 3-0 in the dying minutes, with a counter-attack sucker-punch as Seaford streamed forward. The striker ran onto skipper Mark Corry's pass to round English and slot home, and there was even time for Cassin to miss a golden opportunity to compete a hat-trick, even if a rout of that magnitude would have been harsh on the visitors.
Seaford: E English; S Kane, J Bannon; C Fahy, P Costello; A Finnegan (A Brennan, 65), D Devaney (M Sullivan, 65), R O'Huiginn S Faherty; C Dolan (J Nolan, 74), P Lydon
Phoenix: Tiernan Clerkin, Ciaran Cronin, Mark Kinsella (Connor Healy, 54), Adam Murtagh, Liam Meehan, Eoin Sweeney, Alan Murray (James Platt, 73), Mark Corry, Martin Cassin, Kevin Geoghegan (Eoin Brennan, 78), Karl Fitzgibbon,
Scribblestown, 8 April 2016