On Friday night we opened our league campaign against Camp. A tough opening fixture against a very good team. on a lovely sunny evening in Christy Leahy Park, the game began at a frantic pace both team playing on the front foot .Camp took the lead with 5mins on the whit a long ball over the top Sean Broderick raced outside his area made a tackle but the ball bounced up and fell to the camp player perfectly and he composed himself and sublimely lobbed the ball over Cian Brosnan’s head as he tried to get back on the line to clear. 1 down but plenty time left to get back in it.
As the half wore on we pressed hard for the equaliser with martin Laucher coming close on 3 occasions the last chance coming with a diving header but the keeper held on to the ball. the half ended with us trailing 1 nil. We made a changes at half time Alan Brosnan coming for David Fiadio and Armin Heinrich replacing Graham Sheehy. both player gave some serious strength, speed and changed the game in our favour. Two more changes with Darrah Caplis and Adam Walker coming on for Martin Laucher and Dylan Griffin. both subs made a massive difference and with Man of the Match Cian and Darragh causing Camp awful problems down the left and Adam and the tireless Sean Mcgrath raiding down the right it was a real push for our opening goal in this the lads first League Campain. when Capitan Leon Gallaher spun the defender raced through on the out coming keeper he composed himself dribbled around the keeper with some ease he steadied himself lined up the shot with two players running back to the line his shot only found the side netting.
A devastating blow to anybody’s confidence but not this captain after he began to drive on his team and after chasing down a camp counter he won the ball back just inside the camp half his cross was cleared only to find the boot of Cian Brosnan who unbelievable volley was struck with power accuracy and perfect technique was destined for the top corner from the moment it left his left boot and thats were it was heading and the keeper couldn’t keep it out after getting a good hand on it. final score 1-1. The subs coming in made a real difference espiecally Armin and Alan. best on the day were Alan Armin Sean Mc Leon and man of the match was Cian not just for his goal but for a real determined performance. A good point in the end after training for so long in the game.Well done to all the player for the never giving in and playing right to the final whistle.
Report by R.Powell
