Match Report: Transport 3-2 Seaford Rock United
LSL Saturday Premier 1
Seaford paid the price for a woeful first half display, falling just short despite a spirited second half comeback in Inchicore.
The Penguins found themselves three down by half time. Craig FitzGerald opened the scoring, having the freedom of the Seaford half to run though and finish one-on-one from Martin Rossiter’a pass.
Next, Gary Shaw’s free kick somehow found its way all the way to within three yards of the Seaford goal where it was converted at the back post. And it was three late in the half when Kevin Moran fired inside Barry Ensor’s near post from a tight angle after Fitzgerald laid him in .
But Seaford took a grip on the march immediately after the break, taking just forty seconds to pull one back through Francis Mulhall, who collected Niall Holleran’s big diagonal and fired low into the jet from the edge of the box .
The visitors had renewed impetus now and were playing the game largely in the Transport half, with Seaford looking more solid at the backs nd more assured in possession.
The hosts missed good chances to kill the game off, with Shaw firing wide with the goal at his mercy moments before Paddy McGrath saw Ensor react brilliantly to somehow keep out his point-blank effort.
And Seaford for a second on 69 minutes. From Louis Coleman’s cross, Mulhall arrived at the back post, seeing his first effort blocked on the goal line and his follow-up smash off the underside of the bar, but Oliver Wright was on hand to bundle the ball into the net.
Despite an extraordinary number or injuries and other stoppages , Seaford ratcheted up the pressure for an unlikely equaliser , with Mulhall having one disallowed for offside given against a teammate, but eventually the navy blues ran out of time and ended up empty-handed.
Seaford: Barry Ensor, Steve Kane, Gavin Walsh, James Lynch, (Caoimhin Fahy h/t), Eoin Mahon, Oliver Wright, Owen Brayden, Niall Holleran, (Ian Nolan, 47), Louis Coleman (Pa O'Donoghue, 85) Francis Mulhall, Stephen Canavan
Bernard Curtis Park, 23 November 2019
The Penguins found themselves three down by half time. Craig FitzGerald opened the scoring, having the freedom of the Seaford half to run though and finish one-on-one from Martin Rossiter’a pass.
Next, Gary Shaw’s free kick somehow found its way all the way to within three yards of the Seaford goal where it was converted at the back post. And it was three late in the half when Kevin Moran fired inside Barry Ensor’s near post from a tight angle after Fitzgerald laid him in .
But Seaford took a grip on the march immediately after the break, taking just forty seconds to pull one back through Francis Mulhall, who collected Niall Holleran’s big diagonal and fired low into the jet from the edge of the box .
The visitors had renewed impetus now and were playing the game largely in the Transport half, with Seaford looking more solid at the backs nd more assured in possession.
The hosts missed good chances to kill the game off, with Shaw firing wide with the goal at his mercy moments before Paddy McGrath saw Ensor react brilliantly to somehow keep out his point-blank effort.
And Seaford for a second on 69 minutes. From Louis Coleman’s cross, Mulhall arrived at the back post, seeing his first effort blocked on the goal line and his follow-up smash off the underside of the bar, but Oliver Wright was on hand to bundle the ball into the net.
Despite an extraordinary number or injuries and other stoppages , Seaford ratcheted up the pressure for an unlikely equaliser , with Mulhall having one disallowed for offside given against a teammate, but eventually the navy blues ran out of time and ended up empty-handed.
Seaford: Barry Ensor, Steve Kane, Gavin Walsh, James Lynch, (Caoimhin Fahy h/t), Eoin Mahon, Oliver Wright, Owen Brayden, Niall Holleran, (Ian Nolan, 47), Louis Coleman (Pa O'Donoghue, 85) Francis Mulhall, Stephen Canavan
Bernard Curtis Park, 23 November 2019