Excellent win by the Youths in Ferrycarrig tonight in evenly contested game and in match of contrasting styles. Youths had a few absentees such as Lasty and Rocks and started with Graham, Craig, Killian, CJ, Ryan, Skelly, Ben, Shane D., Peter, Eric and with Danny up front. Bray created a decent chance after four when a cross came into the box an CJ stuck out a leg to knock it away. But otherwise, Bray played a very direct game hitting the ball long at virtually every opportunity. After six, Youths lost the ball in their own half but, in the first of quite a few one-on-ones against the opposing keeper by both sides, O'Neill pulled his shot wide. After ten, Eric had Wexford's first one-on-one against Redmond in the Bray goal, but similarly pulled his shot wide. After 13 minutes, McGill of Bray got a yellow for a tackle on Ben and then, on 20 minutes, Skelly also got a yellow for a tackle. A minute later, Eric nearly was put through again, but Redmond did well to block the shot. Then Hanlon was clean through on Graham but shot over the bar. Little then occurred until just before half-time when, with two minutes to go, Moloney (ex-Youths) of Bray got a yellow and Shane O'Neill was through again on Graham but smacked it straight at him for 0-0 at half-time and pretty even with Wexford trying harder to keep the ball on the ground.
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