Hall beat Carrigtwohill United on penalties in U17 Cup cracker
Youth Soccer: Carrigtwohill United side put in superb performance before losing to Douglas Hall in a penalty shootout in the Munster U17 Cup at Moneygourney.
Douglas Hall advanced to the next round of the Munster U17 Cup after a pulsating game against a very good Carrigtwohill United side at Moneygourney on Saturday.
The Hall led at half-time 2-0 with goals from their captain Colm Tynan and James Kenefick.
The visitors pulled one back against the run of play in the 53rd minute when Troy Emerhu scored a long-range wonder goal. They then went on to level the game 2-2 in the 66th minute, when their captain Owen Aghedo show all his composure to steer his effort past the Hall’s keeper Sean O’Reagan-O’Herlihy.
Both sides came close to winning the game in normal and extra time. However, O’Reagan-O’Herlihy was the Hall hero in the penalty shootout by making two superb saves for his side to be in the hat for the next round of the competition.
Douglas started the game brightly and Rian Searles forced a fine save from United’s net minder Bartosz Majcher in the opening three minutes. On the other side of the pitch, O’Reagan-O’Herlihy made a superb one-handed to deny a header from United’s Jack Lombard that was destined for the top corner of the net.
The Hall made the breakthrough in the 17th minute, Josh Dunne floated in a pinpoint corner and their Colm Tynan powered his header to the back of the net.
The Hall now had their tails up and every time they broke with their one-touch football they looked like scoring. They did increase their lead in the 36th minute. Ciaran Galvin picked up a loose ball in the United box and played a perfect pass for James Kenefick to curl his effort home.
Douglas could have increased their lead four minutes from the restart. Kenefick did well down the right wing and when he found Josh Carey free inside the box, his powerful header rattled the crossbar.
Carrigtwohill manager Gary O’Riordan rang the changes at half-time to try and spark his side. And when one of those subs, Ryan Moore, found Troy Emerhu in space nine minutes later, he struck an unstoppable 30-yard effort high into the roof of the net to make it 2-1.
The whole game changed after the goal, as United began to control the middle of the park and when Brayan Wiecek played a delightful ball over the top for Owen Aghedo. He showed all his skill to control the ball to stroke home to level.
The game then became very open with both sides having chances. However, they couldn’t find that all-important goal in normal time.
It was the visitors who had the first real opportunity to score in the 95th minute, but O’Reagan-O’Herlihy made another fine stop to deny Aghedo. The Hall then came agonisingly close when Zack Doyle’s 30-yard effort rattled the crossbar.
Both sides were tentative in the second half of extra time and there were very few chances as both defences finished out the game on top.
Then came the penalty shootout and O’Ragan-O’Herlihy came up with two big saves to see his side win 4-3.
Sean O’Reagan-O’Herlihy, Josh Dunne, Josh Kinsella, Colm Kinsella, Colm Tynan, Zack Doyle, Rian Searles, Harry Tett, Ciaran Galvin, Josh Carey, James Kinefick, Kevin Healey.
David Collins for Galvin (69), Charles Creedon for Tett (77), Rian O’Sullivan for Carey (79), Hugo Murray for Tynan (83).
Bartosz Majcher, Troy Emerhu, Joshua O’Herlihy, Jamie O’Riordan, Isaac O’Riordan, Dylan Foley, Jack Lombard, Nathan Joseph, Owen Aghedo, Aaron Power, Alameem Adeyinko.
Brayan Wiecek for Foley (ht), Ryan Moore for Adeyinka (ht), Karol Szalonik for Jamie O’Riordan (ht), Aaron Sheehan for Emerhu (79).
Dave Finnegan.
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