Donoughmore Athletic Football Club
 
Donoughmore Athletic 1 Killumney 6

Donoughmore were beaten in the second round of the St. Michael’s Cup on Saturday in Stuake in what was a somewhat flattering result. Donoughmore started the game very strongly with Damien Hennessy doing well in midfield. Hennessy put Aidan O’Shea through on goal in the 6th minute but his shot was blocked by the covering centre half. Sean O’Mahony went close moments later when he saw a free header go wide from an inswinging Pat Foley corner. Terence Looney was showing well at this stage and he got into some very good positions during this early period. Aidan O’Shea, Donoughmore’s leading scorer with ten goals, then had another effort wide from 15 yards. Damien Hennessy failed to take advantage of a good opportunity minutes later and at this stage Donoughmore were doing all the running. They were caught out with a sucker punch in the 20th minute when their defence failed to clear their lines and a  poor clearance was curled into the top corner from all of thirty yards. Donoughmore still put together some good moves after this but were again caught on the hop when a free kick out on the left was finished to the net from 8 yards. Killumney lead 2-0 at the break but Donoughmore, eventhough they hadn’t defended well, were unlucky to be two behind. Donoughmore conceded a third minutes into the second half when a corner was headed into the net at the near post from 6 yards. The game was over as a contest at this stage but Donoughmore to their credit kept plugging away. Sean O’Mahony , Colm O’Sullivan, Damien Hennessy and Jonathan Hennessy all had excellent opportunities to score. Sean O’Mahony did get one back when he headed an Aidan O’Shea Corner to the corner of the net. Donughmore then had Killumney on the back foot for a while but while pushing forward  Donoughmore were caught on the break a number of times in the final half hour and Killumney eventually ran out comfortable winners.

Best for Donoughmore were Sean O’Mahony, Aidan O’Shea and Damien Hennessy.

Team: N. O'Connell, R. O’Sullivan, P. Murphy, C. Buckley, D. Hennessy,

C. O'Sullivan, P. Foley, T. Looney, J. Hennessy, A. O’Shea, S. O’Mahony 

Subs: C. O’Hanlon for P. Foley, A. O’Brien for T. Looney and D. McSweeney for J. Hennessy.  

 
 


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