any news on the bray cork game??
pain is only temporary, glory is forever.
2-2 AET, Cork won 3-1 on penalties.
Rather simple - offside is determined by when the ball is played, not by when you get the ball. So yes, they were beyond the last man when they got the ball, but that doesn't make them offside. I'm actually not sure about whether they were osffside when the ball was played, but the first reaction when you see a position like that is to call all the players offside, even though they mightn't have been.
Good entertaining match in front of maybe 100 spectators. Cold as you'd expect & then driving rain in the 2nd half.
City slow to start (maybe due to no games in last few weeks) & poor defending let Bray in for first goal. I thought City came back strongly & scored after nice passing move & then dominated the half with wind at their backs.
Bray came back into it in the 2nd half & scored very good goal again shortly after hitting the post with long range free kick. City again back very strongly with good equaliser.
Not so many clear chances after that. No goals in extra time. Couple of penalty saves & some poor penalty attempts & they off to Final on wednesday.
Bray looked like had some over age players but don't think City had any. Game played at very fast pace & I was impressed with fitness levels if not the overall skill. The conditions dictated that long balls into the corners were good tactical decisions as pitch heavy & strong wind.
Defo, a very entertaining match considering the poor conditions. Bray started much much brighter and took the lead after some very poor defending and goalkeeping from Cork, but Cork came back into it and scored a lovely goal that cut the Bray defence to bits. Cork really didn't look like scoring after that. Again Bray started the much brighter in the 2nd half and should have scored before they did. Ross Zambra smack the inside of the post from about 30 yards out with a free kick, Darren Lacey had a goal ruled out for off side and Robbie Manley drove just wide. Lacey did eventually score a quality goal beating about 5 players along the way. Cork scored with about 5 minutes to go with there only shot on target in the 2nd half. Then to penos, very poor and anyone could have won it trying to score into a strong wind, Cork's were just slightly better.
Bray had no over age players, infact many of them can still play or 2/3 seasons at that level. Bray were overall the better side and created the better chances but didn't take them. All the best to Cork in the final on Wednesday night.
Did cork have many overage players, they are a fairly big squad are they??
pain is only temporary, glory is forever.
Softic is only 20 or 21. he has obviously played good few first team games (although not good enough yet in my opinion) & McCarthy has played a few minutes in first team in 1 or 2 games i think.
Is Chris O'Connor not over 21?
Bray were good side but I thought they relied too much on lacey up front & some of the defenders were slow & exploited by fast forwards.
I don't think too many of our U21 side will make the move to senior squad very soon. Then again these things come in cycles when older players move on & 18 year olds get few years in U21 league. Overall the U21 league is not high enough quality & needs to be improved somehow.
No O'Connor is only 21. I would agree though our two centre backs were a bit on the slow side, but that would have soemthing to do with neither of them actually being centre backs. Byrne is a striker and Fyurk is a right back.
Most teams rely on there strikers to get goals, but sure a midfielder also chipped in with a goal, cant ask for more than that really.
A deserved victory no doubt.
Best thing aswell is the guy who scored the winner is a die hard UTD fan who goes to most matches.
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and hes only what 16, 17?
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