14-08-2016
Listowel Emmets 2-11
Waterville
0-07
The final scoreline
gives a fair reflection of Listowel’s dominance of this game throughout but it
took two quality goals from midfielder Tom McCarthy at the end of both halves
to close the game out.
Shorn of key attacker
Conor Cox and Jack McQuire in defence, the home side made little of their absence
and hit the ground running from the off.
They were full of energy throughout and the visitors were just not able
to live with them on the day despite the best efforts of Fionan Clifford, Niall
Fitzgerald and sub Keith Moran.
Midfielder McCarty’s
two goals stood out and he was involved in all that was good about the Listowel
play on the day. Corner forward Sam
Tarrant also impressed, in the first half in particular, and was a willing
outlet for the impressive approach play of his teammates.
Listowel started the
more determined and were winning the majority of the breaks around the
middle. They raced in to a three points
lead by the 7th minute with scores from Cathal Keane, Tarrant and
Cormac Mulvihill, who was unlucky to see his effort flash over off the
crossbar.
Waterville keeper Seamus
O’Shea produced a great save to deny David Sheehy before both sides exchanged
wides and Waterville had still not opened their account by the 20th
minute.
Sheehy extended Listowel’s
lead and Waterville were left cursing their luck as they hit the upright on two
occasions in quick succession and also dropped efforts in to the keepers hands.
Centre back Darragh
Leahy galloped forward to get his name on the score sheet before Waterville
finally opened their account in the 29th minute through Niall
Fitzgerald. They looked to have limited
any further damage before the half time break until McCarthy intercepted in
midfield and was on hand to take the final pass and bury to the net to give the
home side a commanding 1-07 to 0-1 lead at the whistle.
Sub Keith Moran and
Bryan Murphy exchanged points at start of second half before Listowel keeper
Keith Hughes denied Greg Gibson a great goal chance which would have given
Waterville a lifeline.
Maurice Whelan and
Moran once more pointed to leave Listowel still leading by 1-09 to 0-3 by the
41st Minute. Waterville were
slowly starting to create more openings in the Listowel defence, and after
midfielder Oran Clifford had converted a free, corner forward Stephen O’Dwyer had a great
goal chance in the 49th minute but he blazed over.
Noel Kennelly had now
entered the fray for Listowel and he showed his experience and composure by
tapping over in the 51st minute with his team now leading by 1-11 to
0-6. The game’s only real controversy
then arose shortly after when Waterville appealed for a penalty for a possible
foot block on a goal attempt by full back Daniel O’Dwyer but to no avail.
Midfielder Clifford
did kick a further point from play before his counterpart McCarthy had the last
say with another top quality finish to the net to leave Listowel comfortable
ten point winners in the end.
Man of the Match: Tom McCarthy, Listowel
Teams & Scorers:
Listowel Emmets: Keith Hughes, Jake Moriarty, Brendan Guiney,
Darragh Broderick, Tom Melvin, Darragh Leahy (0-1), Cathal Keane (0-1), Tom
McCarthy (2-0), Darren Halpin, Denis Walsh, Bryan Murphy (0-1), Maurice Whelan
(0-1), David Sheehy (0- 2), Cormac Mulvihill (0-2, 1f), Sam Tarrant ( 0-2, 1f)
Substitutes: Noel Kennelly (0-1) for Darren Halpin, 44 John Heaphy for Cathal Keane,
48 Sean Gilbert for Cormac Mulvihill, 57 Darren Halpin for Tom McCarthy, 60
Waterville: Seamus O’Shea, Adam O’Dwyer, Daniel
O’Dwyer, Michael Cronin, Alan O’Dwyer, Fionan Clifford, Greg Gibson, Cormac
O’Sullivan, Oran Clifford (0-3, 1f), Sean Cathal O’Sullivan, Niall Fitzgerald (0-1),
Cillian Clifford, Stephen O’Dwyer (0-1), Paddy Curran, Sam O’Dwyer
Substitutes: Keith Moran (0-2) for Sean Cathal O’Sullivan, H/T JV O’Dwyer for Paddy
Curran, 43 Greg O’Mahoney for Cillian Clifford, 44
Referee: Donal Casey, Scartaglen
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