Donoughmore Athletic Football Club
 
Donoughmore Athletic 3 Park Utd 0
Donoughmore bounced back from last week’s defeat to Killumney with a well deserved win against a dangerous Park Utd side in Stuake on Saturday last. Conditions on the day were very good and eventhough Donoughmore were missing a number of player’s the first 20 minutes was a real battle between the two teams. Aidan O’Shea came close to getting on the end of a long Connie Buckley free-kick in the 20th minute as Donoughmore started to get the upper hand at this stage.  Donoughmore took the lead in the 27th minute when Aidan O’Shea got on the end of a Pat Foley corner to head powerfully to the net from ten yards. Colm O’Sullivan and Damien Hennessy were causing Park serious problems in the centre of the field at this point while Donoughmore’s defense was well marshalled by Connie Buckley, Peter Murphy and Rob O’Sullivan. Donoughmore went two up in the 40th minute when Aidan O’Shea chased down the Park centre half and O’Shea’s resultant shot was deflected into his own net by the Park defender. The score was 2-0 at half-time and it looked at this stage that Donoughmore should win well. Indeed they should have gone three up within minutes of the restart when O’Shea was ruled offside when he finished a Sean O’Mahony effort to the net after a very good pass by Colm O’Sullivan. O’Mahony missed a glorious chance minutes later when his header from another excellent Pat Foley corner bounced narrowly over the top. Park Utd then came more into the game as Donoughmore seemed to take their foot off the gas a little. Evan Forde in the Donoughmore goal had to make a couple of very important saves during this period where constant Park pressure was withstood by Donoughmore. Terence Looney forced a good save from the Park keeper in the 70th minute when he broke down the left and hit a good shot to the near post. Cathal O’Hanlon made an excellent break-out in the 80th minute where he beat two tackles before crossing to the far post where Sean O’Mahony finished easily. The game was really stretched at this stage and Donoughmore kept creating the chances until the final whistle. Evan Forde gave a very assured performance in goal for Donoughmore while Aidan O’Shea, Sean O’Mahony, Colm O’Sullivan and Cathal O’Hanlon also performed solidly throughout.
Team: E. Forde, C. O’Hanlon, R. O’Sullivan, P. Murphy, C. Buckley, D. Hennessy, C. O'Sullivan, P. Foley, T. Looney,  A. O’Shea, S. O’Mahony 
Subs: A. O’Brien for T. Looney, D. O’Shea for S. O’Mahony, D. Hogan for P. Foley.  

 
 


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