Wexford FC v Bray

[ForzaForth]

Match of very few chances but anything that happened went Bray’s way as they probably deserved the three points in the Carlisle tonight. With last week’s goalscorer, Conor English, not fit to start, Wexford went with a solid formation of a back four and three centre midfielders and started with Tom Murphy, Karl Fitzsimons, James Carroll, Paul Cleary, Dan Tobin, Charlie Smith, Cian Kavanagh, Conor Crowley, Karl Manahan, Janabi Amour Jr and with Kaleem Simon up front. Bray had a strong breeze in their favour in the first half. Wexford had two attempts on goal early on but neither threatened Maher in the Bray goal. Gary Shaw of Bray then picked up an early yellow card for a stretching tackle. Bray had a shout for a peno on the quarter hour mark as Wexford’s Tom Murphy came out to challenge a Bray attacker, but only a corner was given. Only decent chance of the half fell to Bray on 28 minutes when a deep cross beyond the far post found two Bray attackers against a single Wexford defender, and as the ball was crossed back into the danger zone, either Gary Shaw or the final Wexford defender bundled the ball past Tom Murphy in the Wexford goal for 1-0 to Bray. (The goal was attributed to Shaw). That was the only serious goalmouth action of the first half and the half ended with a yellow for Wexford’s Kaleem Simon who was ploughing a lone furrow up front. 1-0 to Bray at half-time.

[ForzaForth]

Second half wasn’t an awful lot better. Wexford’s Kaleem Simon nearly deflected a cross past Maher in the Bray goal but the latter was able to dive and grab it. Bray’s Gary Shaw then had an effort on goal ruled out for a push. Wexford’s defence, which again looked solid, then cleared a very dangerous Bray cross for a corner. With twenty minutes to go, Wexford brought on Conor English and pushed Kaleem Simon out wide. Other than one shot on target which was an easy pouch for Maher, Wexford couldn’t really create anything and later subs for Wexford were Sean Roche and Patrick O’Sullivan. With the four minutes of injury time being shown on the board, Bray broke away and sub Moran tucked away the breaking ball nicely for 2-0 which was the final score. Wexford, like last week, played nice and compact with the midfield three hard to break down with Cian Kavanagh showing well there. With his good feet, ideally you’d like Kaleem Simon playing ten rather than nine with his back to goal and Wexford missed a full ninety minutes from Conor English. 2-0 to Bray at full-time.

[Martinho II]

Gary shaw it has being confirmed got his first goal for Bray since his return to the club.

[ForzaForth]

Thanks, Marty. Have watched the highlights on the club's website and it still looks like an OG to me. I don't think Gary Shaw actually swings a foot at the ball.