15-05-2016
Milltown-Castlemaine 0-07
Legion
5-11
The sun shone brightly
in Killorglin but it was goals that rained down as Legion recorded a facile
victory over a very disappointing Milltown-Castlemaine challenge.
The game was over as a
contest by half time with Legion having hit the net on three occasions and in
total control all over the pitch.
Milltown-Castlemaine set up defensively but they could not stop the
green and white onslaught and really struggled themselves to make any impact in
their own forward line.
Jamie O’Sullivan
dominated at midfield for Legion, Chris Davies and Padraig O’Connor swept up
everything at the back and centre forward David O’Sullivan and corner forward
Conor Keane instigated the majority of Legion scores, O’Sullivan in particular finishing
with an impressive personal tally of 2-05.
Keane and midfielder
O’Sullivan had opened the scoring for Legion before Jonathan Lyne, named at
wing forward but playing at wing back, ran on to a perfect ball over the
defence and made no mistake by crashing to the net.
Further scores
followed from wing forward Jack O’Neill and centre forward David O’Sullivan
before O’Sullivan himself was at the end of a flowing move in the 17th
minute to palm the ball to the net.
Legion’s tally at this stage was 2-04 with the only response being a
converted free from corner forward Jack McCarthy for Milltown-Castlemaine.
Legion’s midfield
dominance shut off the options available to the Milltown-Castlemaine forward
line and they were totally dependent on placed balls from McCarthy for
scores. He added two more to reduce the
deficit but Legion struck for their third goal just before half time when wing
forward Donal Lyne finished to the net after great approach work by Conor Keane.
The one sided nature
of the contest continued early in the second half and when wing forward O’Neill
was hauled back, centre forward O’Sullivan dispatched the resultant penalty to
extend Legion’s lead to 4-05 to 0-03 by the 34th minute.
Centre back Marcus
Mangan battled hard for Milltown-Castlemaine and McCarthy’s accuracy from
placed balls also stood out as he converted three in a row between the 39th
and 46th minute in their only real period of concerted pressure in
the game.
But from there until
the end it was all one way traffic once more.
Corner forward Peter McCarthy got in on the goal scoring act after more
good approach play from centre forward O’Sullivan, before O’Sullivan himself
took over the scoring in the final ten minutes.
He converted three more frees with a smashing effort from play
sandwiched in between to give Legion an emphatic nineteen point winning margin
at the final whistle.
Main Man: David O’Sullivan, Legion
Scorer of two goals
and an assist in two more, O’Sullivan was a thorn in the Milltown-Castlemaine
side all afternoon
Teams & Scorers:
Milltown-Castlemaine: Cormac Leane, Stephen Roche, Damian Murphy,
Jeremiah Hayes, Paul Carroll, Marcus Mangan, David Roche, Mike Burke, Brendan
Delaney, Gavin Horan, Shane Murphy, Eoin O’Brien, Donal Kelleher (0-1), Pa
Wrenn, Jack McCarthy (0-6, 6f)
Substitutes: Cieran Kelleher for B. Delaney, 37 Cathal O’Connor for S. Roche, 40 Alan
Looney for D. Kelleher, 47 Donal Dennehy for M. Burke, 47 Sean O’Dea for
Jeremiah Hayes, 51 Thady O’Sullivan for P. Carroll, 58
Legion: Brian Kelly, Chris Davies, Danny Sheehan, Padraig O’Connor, Darragh
O’Doherty, Damien O’Sullivan, Donal Lyne (1-1), Jamie O’Sullivan (0-1), Shaun
Keane (c), Jack O’Neill (0-1), David O’Sullivan (2-5, 2f, I pen) Jonathan Lyne
(1-0), Peter McCarthy (1-1), Billy McGuire, Conor Keane (0-2)
Substitutes: Cathal Sheehan for J. O’Sullivan, 37 Mike O’Sullivan for D. Lyne, 39
Conor Culloty for P. McCarthy, 51 Thomas Moriarty for B. McGuire, 53 Alan
Moriarty for D. O’Sullivan, 55 Denis Sheahan for J. O’Neill, 57
Referee: Paul O’Sullivan, Dromid
Talking Point: James O’Donoghue listed among the Legion
substitutes. He was not required on the
day but good to see him on the verge of a comeback from his injury setback
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