Match Report: Seaford Rock United 3-1 Verona
LSL Saturday Major 1
Seaford made it two wins in a week with a professional job to see off Verona in the Blackrock sunshine.
The Penguins were down a few key players but played with energy and endeavour on a poor surface at Rockfield Park.
The games’s first chance fell to Verona’s target man Mark Walsh, but he bobbled a volley wide of the post, and at the other end the Penguins’ sharpshooter Ryan Scollard got an early sighted with the left but fired too high.
Scollard opened the scoring on 24 minutes following in to convert after Stephen Daly had fumbled Jamie McCaul’s effort , but Walsh leveled instantly for the visitors, volleying home a Glen O’Donnell delivery.
Seaford made most of the running, and only a sensational headed clearance from Ange Wanzio kept out Brian Murphy,’s sensational corner kick.
After the break, Neil Byrne evaded a defender and forced a save from Oisin Geoghegan, but it was Seaford who looked more like making the breakthrough.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man, as on 60 minutes Scollard won a penalty and smashed it home himself to bag his fifth int two matches.
The hosts were well on top now with Scollard only denied his second hat-trick of the week by a brilliant Robbie Byrne block on the goalline.
And Scollard had a hand in the crucial third, turning on the afterburners to leave Alan Byrne in his wake before squaring for McCaul to tap in.
It could been more for the Penguins, as Dan Kennedy set up Scollard to volley just over, before Shane Halpin found Darragh Connolly, whose effort was brilliantly saved by Daly, but they held out comfortably for a second win in six days from Alan Burns’s side
Seaford:, Oisin Geoghegan, Eoin Mahon (Darragh Connolly, 76), Brian Murphy, Al Kennedy, Luke Hedderman, Oli Wright (James Kearney, 71), Ben Kelly, Dan Kennedy (Adam O'Shea, 83), Jamie McCaul (Zitian Xiang, 78), Lewis Cawley, (Shane Halpin, 84), Ryan Scollard,
Verona: Stephen Daly, Ange Wanzio, Alan Byrne, Robbie Byrne, Lee Halford, David Walsh (Aidan Lyons, h-t), Gary Johnston, Adam Kavanagh (Adis Velic, 80), Mark Walsh (Dan Hardy, 69), Neil Byrne, Adam O'Donnell
Rockfield Park, 24 February 2024
The Penguins were down a few key players but played with energy and endeavour on a poor surface at Rockfield Park.
The games’s first chance fell to Verona’s target man Mark Walsh, but he bobbled a volley wide of the post, and at the other end the Penguins’ sharpshooter Ryan Scollard got an early sighted with the left but fired too high.
Scollard opened the scoring on 24 minutes following in to convert after Stephen Daly had fumbled Jamie McCaul’s effort , but Walsh leveled instantly for the visitors, volleying home a Glen O’Donnell delivery.
Seaford made most of the running, and only a sensational headed clearance from Ange Wanzio kept out Brian Murphy,’s sensational corner kick.
After the break, Neil Byrne evaded a defender and forced a save from Oisin Geoghegan, but it was Seaford who looked more like making the breakthrough.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man, as on 60 minutes Scollard won a penalty and smashed it home himself to bag his fifth int two matches.
The hosts were well on top now with Scollard only denied his second hat-trick of the week by a brilliant Robbie Byrne block on the goalline.
And Scollard had a hand in the crucial third, turning on the afterburners to leave Alan Byrne in his wake before squaring for McCaul to tap in.
It could been more for the Penguins, as Dan Kennedy set up Scollard to volley just over, before Shane Halpin found Darragh Connolly, whose effort was brilliantly saved by Daly, but they held out comfortably for a second win in six days from Alan Burns’s side
Seaford:, Oisin Geoghegan, Eoin Mahon (Darragh Connolly, 76), Brian Murphy, Al Kennedy, Luke Hedderman, Oli Wright (James Kearney, 71), Ben Kelly, Dan Kennedy (Adam O'Shea, 83), Jamie McCaul (Zitian Xiang, 78), Lewis Cawley, (Shane Halpin, 84), Ryan Scollard,
Verona: Stephen Daly, Ange Wanzio, Alan Byrne, Robbie Byrne, Lee Halford, David Walsh (Aidan Lyons, h-t), Gary Johnston, Adam Kavanagh (Adis Velic, 80), Mark Walsh (Dan Hardy, 69), Neil Byrne, Adam O'Donnell
Rockfield Park, 24 February 2024