AUL Sat 3A
Donnycarney 2-3 RVR FT
A slight change of formation put us on the back foot for the first 20 minutes as we struggled to get the ball forward. Having said this, Donnycarney rarely threatened - a couple of shots from 25-30 yards their only efforts. Some crunching tackles earned the home side a couple of yellow cards early on - one on Evan in goal leaving him with a few sore ribs. It was on the half hour though that the breakthrough came. Good work in the middle from Dave Rooney, getting the ball into Keith Martin who tucked it into the bottom corner for 1-0.
1 switch at half time and back to our usual formation and we started to dominate the game and a couple of chances went a begging to make it 2-0. The 2nd goal came quick enough though as Keith chased a bouncing ball into the box and got caught by the defenders high foot. Keith picked himself up and put the penalty into the bottom left.
5 minutes later it's 3-0. Good work down the left from Jimmy, Adam & Robbie saw the ball floated into the box, eventually breaking to Johnny at the back stick to drill back across the goal and in at the far post. Donnycarney to their credit kept plugging away and got a goal back from a ball we just couldn't seem to clear. They grabbed a 2nd 5 minutes later with some neat play down their left but then had a man sent off for a 2nd yellow which let us see the game out fairly comfortably.