Match Report: Swords Celtic 4-1 Seaford Rock United
LSL Saturday Major 1
Seaford miserable recent run continued with an abject defeat against relegation-battling Swords.
The Penguins had much the better of the first half chances but were punished for failing to put them away. Inside the first ten minutes, Sam Browne and Chris Monk both showed great footwork to work a chance but Monk’s effort was well saved by Aaron McCormack. Then Monk laid Dave Lewis in on goal but he fired wide from a narrow angle.
Swords’s first chance fell to Paul Currivan from a Darren McCormack cutback but it was Seaford who continued to look more like breaking the deadlock.
Jamie McCaul produced a nutmeg and through-ball to put Lewis through one-on-one, but he blazed over, and then Jimmy Hussey almost bagged with a brilliant lob, but it was just too high.
The best chance of all came on 43 minutes when Lewis and McCaul found themselves clean through, but Stephen Cross made a brilliant saving tackle to deny a certain goal.
Instead, it was the hosts who finished the half strongly, Sean Hallahan clipped the bar with a rasping drive from range, before Currivan opened the scoring with. a smashing finish from 20 yards, and and he almost netted again just after the restart but Oisin Geoghegan produced a smart stop.
Seaford we’re all at sea early in the second half and it seemed only a matter of time before they fell further behind. It was Currican who notched again on 56, despite loud protests about offside and a potential foul.
The visitors made a triple substitution to try to reverse the momentum of the game and straight away Lewis pulled one back, cracking home an unstoppable effort from outside the box.
Seaford were in the ascendant now, with MJ TIerney clipping the bar with a free kick, before Lewis was first denied by a goal line clearance after a corner, and then a brilliant saving tackle by Graham Duff as he was about to equalise.
But the Penguins couldn’t find the crucial goal and instead two Swords substitutes scored in the space of two minutes at the death, as Adeola Abbas punished Seaford’s failure to clear their lines, and then Rob Bolton fired home Swords’s fourth.
Seaford will complete their season at home to Old County in a week’s time.
Seaford:, Oisin Geoghegan, Darragh Roche, MJ TIerney,, Al Kennedy, Ian Nolan, Conor Geoghegan (Dan Kennedy, 78), Sam Browne (Ryan Scollard, 58), Jimmy Hussey, Chris Monk (Elridge Valois, 58) Jamie McCaul (Zitian Xiang, 58) , Dave Lewis
Swords Celtic: Aaron McCormack, Andrew Barker, Stephen Cross., Shane Verdon. Paul Currivan (Adeola Abass, 78) . Gary Bohan (Rob Bolton, 68) .Cormac Whelan, Tom McCarthy, Graham Duff, Darren McCormack. Sean Hallahan (Alan O’Shea, 68)
Balheary Reservoir, 15 May 2023
The Penguins had much the better of the first half chances but were punished for failing to put them away. Inside the first ten minutes, Sam Browne and Chris Monk both showed great footwork to work a chance but Monk’s effort was well saved by Aaron McCormack. Then Monk laid Dave Lewis in on goal but he fired wide from a narrow angle.
Swords’s first chance fell to Paul Currivan from a Darren McCormack cutback but it was Seaford who continued to look more like breaking the deadlock.
Jamie McCaul produced a nutmeg and through-ball to put Lewis through one-on-one, but he blazed over, and then Jimmy Hussey almost bagged with a brilliant lob, but it was just too high.
The best chance of all came on 43 minutes when Lewis and McCaul found themselves clean through, but Stephen Cross made a brilliant saving tackle to deny a certain goal.
Instead, it was the hosts who finished the half strongly, Sean Hallahan clipped the bar with a rasping drive from range, before Currivan opened the scoring with. a smashing finish from 20 yards, and and he almost netted again just after the restart but Oisin Geoghegan produced a smart stop.
Seaford we’re all at sea early in the second half and it seemed only a matter of time before they fell further behind. It was Currican who notched again on 56, despite loud protests about offside and a potential foul.
The visitors made a triple substitution to try to reverse the momentum of the game and straight away Lewis pulled one back, cracking home an unstoppable effort from outside the box.
Seaford were in the ascendant now, with MJ TIerney clipping the bar with a free kick, before Lewis was first denied by a goal line clearance after a corner, and then a brilliant saving tackle by Graham Duff as he was about to equalise.
But the Penguins couldn’t find the crucial goal and instead two Swords substitutes scored in the space of two minutes at the death, as Adeola Abbas punished Seaford’s failure to clear their lines, and then Rob Bolton fired home Swords’s fourth.
Seaford will complete their season at home to Old County in a week’s time.
Seaford:, Oisin Geoghegan, Darragh Roche, MJ TIerney,, Al Kennedy, Ian Nolan, Conor Geoghegan (Dan Kennedy, 78), Sam Browne (Ryan Scollard, 58), Jimmy Hussey, Chris Monk (Elridge Valois, 58) Jamie McCaul (Zitian Xiang, 58) , Dave Lewis
Swords Celtic: Aaron McCormack, Andrew Barker, Stephen Cross., Shane Verdon. Paul Currivan (Adeola Abass, 78) . Gary Bohan (Rob Bolton, 68) .Cormac Whelan, Tom McCarthy, Graham Duff, Darren McCormack. Sean Hallahan (Alan O’Shea, 68)
Balheary Reservoir, 15 May 2023