FAI: REPORT | MU16 | Ireland 6-0 Greece

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St. Patrick’s Athletic’s Michael Noonan hit a hat-trick*as Paul Osam’s side cruised to victory over the Greeks to end the competition as runners up.
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Billy Hayes, Grady McDonnell and Sam Steward also got on the scoresheet with the win the side’s seventh victory of the season.
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Ireland were ahead inside five minutes when Noonan headed home from a corner to score three-games running in the tournament. Seven minutes later Noonan would double Ireland’s lead again with another header - again from a corner.
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Noonan’s club mate Hayes put the young Boys in Green 3-0 up in the 25th minute after finishing at the back post following great work from Max Kovalevskis.
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McDonnell made it 4-0 with another header to cap off an excellent first-half display by Osam’s team.
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Any chance of an*unlikely Greek comeback were put to bed early in the second half. McDonnell was felled inside the penalty area and Noonan stepped up to seal his hat-trick from the spot - his 12th international goal of the season.
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Captain Steward exposed frailties in the Greek’s defence from*set-pieces when he netted his second international goal of the season from a corner to make it 6-0 in the 67th minute.
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That would conclude the scoring with Ireland recording their biggest win of the campaign and the second time this season they’ve netted six in a game.
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Ireland: Topcu (Alex Noonan, 46), Oladiti (Canny, 58), McDonagh, Steward (C) (McGrath, 58), Sherlock, McMahon Brown, Ogbonna (Martos, 58), McDonnell (Campbell, 68), Kovalevskis (O’Neill, 58), Noonan (Tollett 58), Hayes (Umeh, 58)
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Greece: Stamellos, Mokris, Kapellas, Nikolakidis, Trikaliotis, Loutzianotis, Gazis, Mantazelis, Papadopoulos, Chnaris, Venetis, Tourkochoritis
Substitutes: Arvanitakis, Christopoulos, Lagoudakis, Minasidis, Krommydas, Michaildis, Savvidis, Berdos, Sidiropoulos, Xanthopoulos, Avramoulis
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International Friendly Results
Monday, January 22 |*Türkiye 3-1 Ireland
Wednesday, January 24 |*Ireland 2-1 Czechia
Friday, January 26*| Ireland 6-0 Greece



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Introduction:
Ireland Men’s Under-16s ended their Aegean Cup tournament in style beating Greece 6-0 in a ruthless attacking display in Izmir, Türkiye.




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