QuoteRTE LW have the match on. Eoin Hand loves Georgie!
Lineup:
Devine
Murphy-Dan Murray-O'Halloran-Bennett
Colin T-Nwankwo-Doyle-George
Fenn-Flynn
dolan made 3 changes, replaced Byrne, Sweeney and Horgan with Bennett, Nwankwo and O'Halloran
For updates on the game throughtout the night, go here
RTE LW have the match on. Eoin Hand loves Georgie!
RTE LW have the match on. Eoin Hand loves Georgie!
Good start from City, especially JOF and Danny Murphy.
still 0-0 at half time
Playing well. Flynn had a decent shot from about 45 yards.
0-0 Vs SPA, sounds like a cracker eh??
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
its 1 nil to city
St. Pats 0-1 Cork City
nwankwo gets the goal.
For updates on the game throughtout the night, go here
Sure we can get the updates here as well, no???Originally Posted by CorkCityFootie
2-0 to the COOOORK CIIIIITY
Flynny
El Khabir sent off for throwing a slap @ Colin.
All over. 3 points. We will take a good jump up the league now.
Well done lads. Sounded like an impressive performance.
Eoin Hand "Impressive, well deserved, good football".
First away win for a CCISA bus i believe?
Afters: Danny Murphy allegedly hit a young SPA fan, who had first thumped Murphy after his friend had shoved Danny. Same ol Dublin eh?
Last edited by Gary; 09/04/2004 at 8:54 PM.
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
Final Score
Cork City 2-0 St Pats
Scorers: Nwankwo (53) and J.O'Flynn (70)
Source
Great result! Roll on the Champs!
Maybe that weird formation is the answer to our problems!
Sets us up nicely for Monday night for the big one at the Cross, another win will do nicely
just to correct the formation a bit, doyle was on the right, colin t in the middle. greg had a stormer at right back, especially in the first half. benno played well too i thought.
nwanku's goal was a gem, put through and with the keeper advancing just chipped it over him, the celebration was class too, eat ur heart out robbie keane. o'flynns was a well taken one on one, flynny started a bit quiet, but seemed to get better as the game went on. thought the team played well overall, fenn was a bit off the pace, prolly just a bad night at the office. definitely deserved the win. good travelling support.
didn't see danny murphy hit anyone, the entire team came down to applaud the city fans who were in the corner, danny was one of the last left and as he was standing there some young knacker cutting across the pitch gave him a bit of a shoulder, there was some verbals and some squaring up, but i didn't see anything worse than that. course, security just let ur man walk off without hardly saying a word. they had to keep their eyes on the 'dangerous' city fans i guess.
What a deserved and needed win.
Grag came in at right back and Benno started in the centre with Dan. Nwanko started on the left and Georgie went back in the middle. Very solid performance by the back line. Greg and Benno really played as if they hand points to prove and I'll be surprised if Dolan leaves them out for Monday. Dan also seems to play better with Benno beside him. Danny Murphy was solid and is really settling into the team. Doyler played well on the right and played some lovely linking football with Fenn and Flynny.
George played his best game yet in the middle and again he played some lovely link up play with Fenn and Flynny. Nwanko impressed me. Didn't do much in the line of taking on defenders but he was very intelligent with the ball and rarely lost it.
Flynny and Fenn were just fabulous to watch up front. Any doubts about Flynn's fitness are gone after tonight. The two of them seemed to know what the other was gonna do and they played some fabulous ball.
Overall City were the better team for the 90 minutes. They sat back a bit after going ahead but the defence was well capable of soaking up any Pats pressure and Pats never really threatened the goal.
Nwanko's celebration was class, lost count of how many summersaults he did
Hopefully this is the start of a long winning streak
You got back to Cork quick B_Mc!!
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
2 junior jackeens shouldered Danny into the back as he was up applauding the City fans. He grabbed the second one by the jumper but he ran off. 5 security muppets just standing there watching and didn't do anything about it
Nwankwo's goal was pure class. His first(?) for City and what a goal. He never
broke his stride as he chipped the Pats keeper. Amazing
It was worth the trip just to see it.
GOAL OF THE SEASON
da da da da da Nwankwo
brendan
Blowing Bubbles
2 class goals ang a great all round performance
to greg
humble pie never tasted so good
So he's in your good books till at least monday eh???2 class goals ang a great all round performance
to greg
humble pie never tasted so good
thank fcuk for the win.
roll on shels and another nwankwo goal so i can see his celebration!!
cause you know that you won't see it eircom league weekly
Whatever it was I am sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?
from the Irish Times
Cork get challenge back on the rails
Emmet Malone at Richmond Park
St Patrick's Athletic 0 Cork City 2
Widely tipped before the start of the new season as a serious threat to the stranglehold of the Dublin clubs in the league, Cork City travelled to the southside of the capital last night for their fifth game already threatened with being left lagging behind by their major rivals.
Defeats by Shamrock Rovers and, particularly, Waterford earlier this week must have come as jolts to the system down around Turner's Cross but a loss here followed by another to Shelbourne on Monday evening would have left Pat Dolan's men 12 points behind the defending champions with just a sixth of the season completed.
Instead, sweetly taken goals from Michael Nwanko and John O'Flynn were enough to secure much needed points and, one presumes, boost confidence ahead of what should be a more testing encounter in a couple of days.
Had either side proved capable of stringing more than a couple of passes together the opening half might have been up to more.
It may have had its moments, most memorably Alan Bennett's clearance off the line for the visitors and O'Flynn's attempt to lob Chris Adamson from 40 yards, but there were far too many errors for it to develop into a contest of real quality.
Paul Rose probably went closest to opening the scoring during those first 45 minutes, the St Patrick's striker benefiting from a perceptive piece of play by Cameroon international Joseph Ndo that left him with bundles of space to run into as the City defence scrambled across to cover.
He couldn't provide the required finish, though, with Michael Devine blocking an initial attempt to round him and Bennett taking care of the follow-up.
O'Flynn's effort was far more speculative with the under-21 international launching what looked a hopelessly optimistic attempt on goal after his marker had slipped as the pair turned.
This time, however, the goalkeeper didn't cope well with the threat and Adamson must have been relieved to see the ball hop harmlessly wide after allowing what looked a straightforward catch to slip through his hands.
What flowing attacking football the game did produce came from City with Neale Fenn showing neat touches, fine positional sense and a knack for finding a well-placed team mate.
Beside him O'Flynn consistently threatened while George O'Callaghan and Nwanko made a positive contribution.
Until Nwanko's goal the hosts coped well enough at the back, however, with Darragh Maguire and Colm Foley looking far more solid around their own area than their opposite numbers in the Cork side.
At right back the approach of Greg O'Halloran, making his first start of the season, was a little firmer than those inside him but the general uncertainty might well have cost the visitors had Eamonn Collins' frontmen made more of their chances.
They didn't, though and when Fenn fed O'Flynn for the game's second goal 20 minutes from time the game was effectively over.
St Patrick's battled for something, if only pride, through the closing stages but the visitors rarely looked seriously troubled and it only got worse for Collins late on when Kharim El Khebir was sent-off for raising his hand to Colin O'Brien.
ST PATRICK'S ATHLETIC: Adamson; Quigley, Foley, Maguire, El Khebir; Fahey, Ndo, Casey (Osam, 82 mins), Dunne (Jones, 66 mins); Rose, Bird.
CORK CITY: Devine; O'Halloran, Bennett, Murray, Murphy; Doyle, O'Callaghan, O'Brien, Nwanko; O'Flynn, Fenn (Sweeney, 91 mins).
Referee: P McKeon (Dublin).
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