Bella we played the game out in Kilumneys place.The pitch was in good nick,a few rabbit holes sprinkled around alright but I like rabbits so I wouldnt use um as an excuse.:pNo as I siad we had a team well capeable of getting a result an we had more than enough oppertuinitys to put the game beyond reach but as we all know if you dont put the roundy thing in the net when you have a guilt edge chance,then if the opposition do it to ya then ya only yourself to blame.
It was a good game all told.Kilumney were tough an fit,they beat Knockavilla the week before an I spoke to the ref who did the game an the manager of Knockavilla to see what they thought of Kilumney so we knew what was comin our way.I think if you have 4 or 5 corners in each half you should score from at least 1 an we didnt.We had 3 direct free kicks at goal an maybe 5 or 6 chances that we should have scored from an again we didnt score(credit the keeper with 2 tasty saves).Our frustration at not scoring only seemed to spur Kilumney on.The 2nd half we wasted so many scoring chances you could almost feel it would be Kilumneys day.To cap it all of with 2 mins off normal time one of our subs rose to meet a cross from Cans as if he was going to bust the net an it hit the inside of the post ,the keeper just turned expecting it to go into the net an it bounced into his hands.If your lucks not in then thems the joys.
They have a huge center forward who was excellently man marked by our center half Paul Lynch throughout the game till we stuipidly waited for an off side call that was'nt an off side at all an the one time the center forward got a chance he stuck it in the net.Fair dues to him.That was in the 2nd minute of the 2nd half of extra time.Kilumney played the clock down very well after that an even with all the pressure we were puttin on them the harder we tried the worse our delivery got.The 1 nil game didnt do justice to the game itself,keepers an defences on the day played very well,while midfields an forwards were not so good,again on both sides.But ya have to give credit to Kilumney,we may have had the larger proportion of outright goal scoring chances but we didnt take any an they did,we will learn a few lessons from the game.We were way down after the game as you would expect but you cant dwell on it.
It was a loss but it was a cup game an it wasnt 3 point lost.That makes it a little easier to take,but I dont like losing any game,to anyone so we will be stronger for it in our next game.
