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Bridge United B 3 – Rineanna Rovers B 1 at Sixmilebridge
DESPITE a disappointing league campaign this year’s Bridge United B have booked their place the Clare Cup semi-final for the second year in succession following a battling display against Rineanna Rovers B in Sixmilebridge on Sunday.
Having overcome the Bridges’ A team in the previous round, the Shannon club were full of confidence on the arrival in Sixmilebridge and started the match the brighter with some good early pressure.
The pressure paid off after half an hour with a moment that Bridge keeper Barry Deasy will want to forget. His attempted clearance from a firmly struck back-pass bobbled over the hapless keeper’s foot and into his own net.
This setback seemed to spur on the home side who came out of themselves and thought they had equalised before half time when a Kevin Meehan corner was bundled to the net – only to be ruled out for an infringement on the Rineanna keeper.
The equaliser finally came in the 65th minutes when super sub Alan Mulready was taken down in the box allowing Gavin Downes to drill his penalty to the net.
The home side were well on top at this stage and could have won the match within the 90 minutes. One final quilt edges chance fell to Dominic Murphy in injury but his effort went wide meaning extra time. The writing was on the wall in the first minute of extra time when a Gavin Downes’ cross was headed home by Brendan Murray. Rineanna had their chances howev- er and Barry Deasy made amends for his earlier error with a superb double save from Tiago and Alan Barrett in the opening exchanges of the second period. The tie was put to bed five minutes from the end when Robert Conlon made great progress down the left before crossing for Gavin Downes to head home to complete his brace. Revenge for the Bridge and bragging rights secured for the B-team.
Bridge Utd B
Barry Deasy, Podge Flannery,Albert Finnan, Dominic Murphy, Kevin Meehan, Paul Corbett, Damian Murray, Robert Conlon, Brendan Murphy, Jamie Gorman, Gavin Downes.
Subs
Alan Mulready for B Murphy, Darragh Fitzgerald for Gorman, Geoff Flynn for Corbett,Alan McAuley for Flannery.
Rineanna Rovers B
Eugene O’Mahony, Darra McCarmac, Ger Cahill, Dabvid Barrett, Conor Cusack, Enda Barrett, Ciaran O’Cpnnor, Martin Frawley, Ronan McCarmack,Alan Barrett, Shane Meehan.
Subs
Tiago for Shane Meehan, Declan O’Mahony for O’Connor.
Man of the Match
Gavin Downes (Bridge United B)
Referee
Declan Hehir