Wexford FC v Bray

[ForzaForth]

Class goal from Danny Furlong gave Wexford a sniff in a decent game in Bray tonight, but Bray’s domination for the first hour meant that they deserved to take the three points overall. Wexford began with Corey, Paddy, Hopper, Sean, Lee, Danny Doyle, Crokey, Ryan, Emmet and with Danny Furlong and Jack Doherty up front. First half was more or less owned by Bray although they didn’t get on the scoresheet. Bray had a number of shots blocked for corners during the first period by a resolute Wexford defence and, on the quarter-hour, Corey Chambers in the Wexford goal had to tip a Bray header over his own cross-bar. A Crokey shot which Sava in the Bray goal had to get down low to was the nearest Wexford came to getting on the scoresheet during this time. First half ended with a long-range Bray effort whistling a yard over the Wexford bar and it finished 0-0 at half-time. You felt that Wexford needed to improve in the second period.

[ForzaForth]

Wexford started better in the second half as they owned a bit more of the ball. Critical period of the game came on the hour mark when Bray's Derek Daly beat the offside by Wexford and lobbed the ball past Corey Chambers for 1-0 to Bray. From the kick-off, an error in the Bray defence forced a Bray defender to impede Danny Furlong inside the Bray area from the wrong side but the ref gave nothing. Immediately, Bray went down the pitch again and scored for the second time when a cross from the right wing found Daly free again and he finished nicely for 2-0 to Bray. Wexford looked dead and buried at this stage but got back into the game on 70 minutes when Danny Doyle put in an intelligent low cross to the near post where Danny Furlong, with his back to goal, back-heeled it past Sava to bring the game back to life at 2-1. Wexford then had their best spell of the game and looked so much better as they attacked with Paddy Cahill moving to midfield to good effect, Nika Arevadze looking a threat when he came on, and Darragh O’Connor showing that he shouldn’t have been plonked on the subs bench at the start of the game. With seven to go, Corey Chambers had a bad clash of heads with a Bray attacker and had to go off where he was replaced between the sticks by Jason McGuire. Jason watched the resulting free-kick by Bray clip the top of his crossbar and over. Nearest Wexford came to getting an equaliser came in the final minute when a free into the Bray area bobbled across Bray’s goal with nobody from Wexford quite able to force it home. Best for Wexford were Paddy Cahill, Sean Callan and Hopper Kenny and you’d feel that manager Brian O’Sullivan has to move Paddy from right-back into the centre of midfield on this showing. 2-1 to Bray at full-time with Paul Keegan of Bray not wasting a ball for the home side and full-back Luke Nolan providing a constant outlet down his side of the pitch for Bray.