QuoteCheers, EnDai, though I can't agree with your analysis! I thought a draw was probably fair as neither side could create anything decent, and if any team was going to go through, it was Shels.Originally Posted by EnDai
He took an age to put it in, the ****
Can't complain really, the players didn't seem to want it at all.
Cheers, EnDai, though I can't agree with your analysis! I thought a draw was probably fair as neither side could create anything decent, and if any team was going to go through, it was Shels.
How did Harte play? Was he on the left wing? I'd have assumed Derek Doyle would have gotten a run out. Also how did Dupuy do?
I think the only logical thing to do is to play at least 6 U-21 reserves in the final. They have beaten Waterford and Shamrock Rovers where the seniors could not this season.
Harte played up front! Damo didn't do a huge amount attacking wise but we didn't get the ball up near enough. As usual he put in a lot of work tracking back and pressuring Shels players on the ball.How did Harte play? Was he on the left wing? I'd have assumed Derek Doyle would have gotten a run out. Also how did Dupuy do?
I think the only logical thing to do is to play at least 6 U-21 reserves in the final. They have beaten Waterford and Shamrock Rovers where the seniors could not this season.
The seniors beat Waterford in Belfield BTW.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
[QUOTE=Schumi]Harte played up front!QUOTE]
harte didnt play up front he played in the middle you wally!
5 man midfield? Thought Harte was further up than Tony and Dicker but maybe my view was coloured by him wearing 10.harte didnt play up front he played in the middle you wally!
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
A draw would have been fair, really, but UCD wanted it (I could say wanted it more, but Shels didn't seem to want it at all) - which in my eyes makes them worthy winners. The only time we saw Shelbourne care was after the 2nd goal for you shower of gits!
That said, it did save us the mind numbing possibility of extra-time, the match was sending me to sleep as it was!
God
I thought you were playing a 4-5-1 with the number 10 slightly further ahead of the mid field two alright. It wasnt two out and out strikers anyway
That thought occurred to me when you scored too!That said, it did save us the mind numbing possibility of extra-time, the match was sending me to sleep as it was!
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
God
It's already been updated on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCD_FC
I'd guess CollegetillIdie is the main source.
Great to see the players run towards the travelling support when Robbie scored. Generally doesn't happen often enoughmainly because we don't score often enough
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The team had Gallagher, McAniff who was then a reserve, Shorthall, Harte, Derek Doyle, Sammon and Whitmarsh (don't even know what to class him as).
We beat them 1-0 in the league too: http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=24130
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
I know, I was there.
Our wikipediea site was edited by someone called Fenian Swine who's interests include fenianism, Celtic FC and UCD AFC.
Hmm...
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Stop being so annoying Schumi.
You should have said that then!
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Well I have now haven't I!?You should have said that then!
Wa-hey! Match report at last, in at post 40 (though some may have spotted it on the official website from mid-afternoon)
UCD qualified for only their second ever League Cup final after an extraordinary finale to a previously quiet game in Tolka Park on Monday night. Trailing to a late Colin Hawkins goal, College pulled out two injury time goals to sneak into the final on Monday week. In doing so, they guaranteed themselves minimum prize money of €7,500 and are also just one win away from a place in next season’s Setanta Cup.
The announcement regarding the Setanta Cup, which came earlier in the day, evidently effected the two team line-ups. Pete Mahon had earlier said that he was prepared to give the fringe and U-21 players who had gotten past Dublin City, Shamrock Rovers and Waterford, the chance to continue their run, but UCD’s line-up, when it was announced, showed just three changes from the team which lost to Shamrock Rovers the previous Friday.
Unsurprisingly, given the range of options available to Pete Mahon up front, two of those saw Damien Dupuy start up front in place of Robbie Martin, dropped to the bench, and Kieran Harte come into an attacking mid role. Pat McWalter moved to the left wing, Mick O’Donnell moved back to left-back and Aaron McEniff dropped to the bench. Shels, for their part, gave a first start to Steve Williams since losing control of the number one jersey to Dean Delaney in the last round of the League Cup. However, apart from that and Ollie Cahill replacing Wes Hoolihan on the wing, it was the same XI which beat Bohs on Friday.
Chances were few and far between in the opening 85 minutes. Early on, Jason Byrne rounded Darren Quigley but stumbled in getting his shot in, which was weak and easily cleared. Shels did get into plenty of decent crossing areas, but what the UCD defence couldn’t deal with, the Shels attack invariably headed over or wide.
UCD, for their part, attacked on the break, but their best chances were a couple of free-kicks – Damien Dupuy had one blocked down by a wall which looked suspiciously less than ten yards back (though Dupuy would turn the tables in the second half when Shels passed a free-kick straight to him when no more than five yards away), while Gary Dicker was a lot closer with his curler shortly before the break, which went just wide.
The first meaningful attack of the second half was UCD’s – Damien Dupuy’s weighted pass freeing Gannon on the right, but the Shels defence got back in time to block the winger’s cross. Just past the hour mark, the game started to liven up with a couple of yellow cards apiece – Kieran Harte and Dupuy for UCD, Stuart Byrne and Bobby Ryan for Shels, all in different incidents. And the first real drama of the night came on 65 minutes, when Shels were awarded an indirect free-kick on the edge of the six yard box after the referee adjudged penalised Darren Quigley for picking up a back-pass. With six UCD players on the line, plus Quigley, standing just in front of the wall, it was always going to be difficult for Shels to get through to the net, and so it proved as Quigley produced a fine save to parry away. From the resultant corner, Jason Byrne should have opened the scoring but his volley from an unmarked position ten yards out clipped the top of the bar and went over.
However, with five minutes remaining, it looked as if extra-time was inevitable – not the scenario UCD would have been looking to, given that their last two Cup defeats were away and after extra time. But then Shels took the lead – Ollie Cahill wriggled free of Alan Mahon long enough to put in a low cross; Glen Crowe’s effort came off the post, but Colin Hawkins swept home the rebound, although Quigley did get a touch.
Rather than letting the heads dropped, UCD were positive right from the tip, when they pressed straight up the pitch, but still the Achilles’ heel of creating and converting scoring chances was a problem as a sixth consecutive game without scoring from play loomed. But, as the game entered injury time, substitute Anto Murphy split the Shels defence to set Brian Gannon through on goal, and his flick past Williams in goal trickled into the unguarded net. About the only person in the ground not to see the goal was Gannon himself, who was unceremoniously flattened by the outrushing Williams; indeed, had the ball not gone in, Williams could well have found himself off the pitch and his team facing a penalty.
Extra-time loomed, but only for two minutes. Alan McNally had already sent a header inches wide when Owen Heary, under no pressure, turned and played a woefully short back-pass to his keeper; Williams again rushed from his goal and indeed from his area and again was beaten, this time by Robbie Martin, who took the ball around Williams and calmly – or because of high nerves, whichever way you want to look at it! – walked the ball up to the goalline and slotted home from a matter of inches. In the wild celebrations which ensued, the referee produced a yellow card – presumably for goalscorer Martin, though it was impossible to tell which of the pile of white shirts the card was for.
As Shels tipped off, the ref looked at his watch, and the final whistle appeared imminent. But on we played as Shels sought to rescue the game and their season. They did force a corner or two, but UCD were breaking when the whistle finally went to seal a memorable victory.
UCD – Quigley; Mahon, O’Donnell, McNally, Shortall (Murphy 88); McDonnell, Gannon, Dicker, McWalter; Dupuy (McEniff 66); Harte (Martin 66). Subs not used – Sammon, Gallagher.
Att - c 1000
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Incidentally, some random stats on the game because I have them -
> This is our fourth time past the First Round of the League Cup. It's also our fourth time past the First Round in the last six seasons. In one of those seasons, the League Cup wasn't played.
> Shels are our bogey team. They've won seven of the last eight games in Belfield Park, drawing the other (this season). The last time we won at home to Shels was in the Super Cup; before that, it was in 1997. We actually did well to get them in Tolka, where they've only won one of the last seven! We've won two of those games...and they're the only two times we've ever beaten Shels away!!
> CTID may fill in the gaps here, but I've only got one League Cup game on record between UCD and Shels before last night - a 0-0 draw in 1998. We've never met in the FAI Cup.
> The winner was Robbie Martin's 40th goal for UCD in all competitions, in his 160th game. Brian Gannon, on the other hand, has now scored three times in four League Cup games!
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