U-21 Futsal tournament

[Schumi]

Colin Forde has tickets.Yes, but he wants to give a good few to Mount Merrion, etc.

[Aberdonian Stu]

When all the seats are out the NBA holds 3,000 so there's no chance of a sell out.

[DmanDmythDledge]

I probably won't be at the Longford match so someone get a ticket for me if I'm not there please.

[pineapple stu]

UCD beat Bray 7-6 on penalties after a 5-5 draw, with Bray equalising with two seconds left after their keeper had passed straight into his own net a couple of minutes earlier to give us the lead.

But, we then lost 4-2 to Rovers in the final - the only team to beat us in the competition proper - with Rovers coming back from 2-1 down at half time to win, and so take the E10,000 prize money and the UEFA Cup spot.

[Schumi]

Rovers coming back from 2-1 down at half time to win, and so take the E10,000 prize money and the UEFA Cup spot.
€5,000 according to the guy doing the announcements. We won €4,000: €3,000 for second place and €1,000 for the fair play award.

We missed two 10 metre penalties (after Rovers had exceeded 5 fouls in a half) in the final too. :(

[DmanDmythDledge]

http://www.eircomloi.ie/news_item_69.htm



UCD (2) 5 Bray Wanderers (2) 5 (UCD win 7-6 on pens)

UCD secured the first final spot in the eircom FAI Under-21 Futsal League with a thrilling penalty shoot-out victory over Bray Wanderers at the National Basketball Arena.

The Students needed spot-kicks to win it after a remarkable 5-5 draw in normal time in the first of the two semi-finals with keeper Declan O’Donnell the hero.

After a tense opening start Bray were awarded a penalty in the ninth minute and Gary McCabe stepped up to slot home from the spot-kick to open the scoring.

UCD equalised five minutes later when Bray keeper Gavin Snograss could only parry and Eoin O’Cinneide reacted well to volley home.
Bray regained the lead after a brilliant move involving James O’Shea and Sean Fitzgerald that ended with David O’Sullivan smashing home from ten yards.

But the Students responded immediately with O’Cinneide tapping home
from close range just ten seconds later.

McCabe regained the lead for Wanderers with a stunning free-kick from 15 yards just over two minutes into the second half.

Wanderers then lost Mark Duggan to a second yellow card and their luck further dipped when Darren Forsyth levelled for the Students six minutes into the half.

UCD then went in front with ten minutes left, James O’Sullivan poking past Snodgrass to make it 4-3.

With four minutes left McCabe struck his hat-trick with a ten-metre penalty to level it up at 4-4.

But calamity struck for Bray keeper Snodgrass when he came out his box but misplaced a pass straight into his own goal to hand UCD a bizarre lead.

Snodgrass redeemed himself somewhat with a couple of excellent stops to deny Ger O’Callaghan a decisive sixth goal for the Students.

Those saves proved vital as with just two seconds on the clock under-19 international James O’Shea struck home to send the game into penalties.

UCD: Declan O’Donnell; Damien Kelly, Killian Gallagher, David Last, Shane Flynn, Greg Bolger, Tim Purcell, Ger O’Callaghan, Fran Moran, Eoin O’Cinneide, Darren Forsyth, James O’Sullivan.
Goals: O’Cinneide 2, Forsyth, Snodgrass og.

Bray Wanderers: Gavin Snodgrass: Sean Fitzgerald, Niall Merriman, John Meagher, Jack Douglas, Mark Duggan, Gary McCabe, Paul Dunphy, David O’Sullivan, James O’Shea, Robbie Manley, John Broderick.
Goals: McCabe 3 (1 pen), O’Sullivan.

Penalties – (UCD go first). Kelly saved 0-0; McCabe scored 0-1; Purcell scored 1-1; Manley scored 1-2; Bolger scored 2-2; O’Sullivan saved 2-2; O’Cinneide scored 3-2; Broderick saved 3-2; Gallagher saved 3-2; O’Shea scored 3-3; J O’Sullivan scored 4-3; Douglas scored 4-4; Forsyth scored 5-4; Fitzgerald scored 5-5; Flynn scored 6-5; Dunphy scored 6-6; Last scored 7-6; Meagher missed 7-6. UCD win.




UCD (2) 2 Shamrock Rovers (1) 4

SHAMROCK ROVERS become Ireland’s first major futsal champions with an impressive victory over UCD in the eircom FAI Under-21 Futsal League final.

Dave Campbell’s side produced a measured display to lift the title and clinch Ireland’s first UEFA Futsal Cup qualification spot.

The Hoops opened the scoring after four and a half minutes when Ciaran Kilduff released Dane Massey and he slotted the ball home for a lightening counterattack.

UCD equalised two minutes later when Fran Moran shot home from a tight angle with a neat flick.

Moran then reacted first to stick the Students in front in the tenth minute after Rovers keeper John Perkins could only parry a Damien Kelly shot.

The Students were unlucky not to extend their lead in the 13th minute when Moran clipped the Hoops crossbar with a snap shot.

Perkins was a hero for the Hoops when he made a brilliant save to deny Greg Bolger from a ten-metre penalty two minutes before the break.

The Hoops drew level just under three minutes after the restart thanks to a typically powerful run and strike by their leading scorer Ciaran Kilduff.

Mark Langtry gave Rovers control of the game four minutes later when he cut in from the left and fired past UCD keeper Declan O’Donnell to make it 3-2.

The Hoops extended their lead with eight minutes left when Darren Murphy put David Vickery through and he slipped the ball past O’Donnell.

Greg Bolger had a chance to cut the deficit with 55 seconds left but he blazed over from a ten-metre penalty and to compound his afternoon Bolger saw red 14 seconds from time.

UCD: Declan O’Donnell; Damien Kelly, Killian Gallagher, David Last, Shane Flynn, Greg Bolger, Tim Purcell, Ger O’Callaghan, Fran Moran, Eoin O’Cinneide, Darren Forsyth, James O’Sullivan.
Goals: Moran 2.

SHAMROCK ROVERS: John Perkins; Dane Massey, Darren Murphy, Mark Langtry, Brendan Dawson, Ciaran Kilduff, Graham Caffrey, David Vickery, Stephen Donegan.
Goals: Massey, Kilduff, Langtry, Vickery.


Also I thought it was a nice touch that our club officials only showed up after the semis.:D

[Schumi]

I forgot to add that in the last few minutes of the final, we subbed our keeper off when we had the ball and brought on a fifth outfield player, wearing a 'keeper's jersey with a number made out of sticky tape in a desperate attempt to score. As soon as we lost the ball, the two 'keepers swapped places again. :D

[Aberdonian Stu]

Also I thought it was a nice touch that our club officials only showed up after the semis.:D

Sherro was out at ALSAA with either our Inters or Freshers in the morning so it was decent enough of him to motor over for the final.

[DmanDmythDledge]

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