U11 Abbeyside 0 – 2 Mooncoin Celtic

12 points from the lads first 4 games keeps them cemented at the top of the table with a game in hand . We made hard work of it today and we’re lucky to be 0-0 at half time after a great save from Noah Wall just before the break. We came into it more in the second half and opened the scoring through Darragh Mackey. Michael Foran had the ball in the net soon after but was deemed offside . We kept pressing and were rewarded when a cross from Michael ended up in the back of the net through an own goal. We held on and another clean sheet . Man of the match performance from Jamie Rowe at centre half

U13D Mooncoin Celtic 3 Ferrybank FC 0

The boys welcomed ferrybank to suir crescent today for a well over due game on the home pitch and they got the perfect result. We dominated from the first whistle and a brilliant ball into space from jim sent Josh through on goal and he finished superbly via the inside of the post. Sam Henebery made his debut in midfield today and done brilliant to win the ball in our half breaking free of two ferrybank players to set Liam free who put a lovely defence splitting pass through for Josh to put away calmly for his second of the game. We contributed to push and the defence of Tadhg Danny Patrick and Jim swept up anything that came their way with Donal Dobbyn just ahead of them causing ferrybank all kinds of problems with his step overs (to the disapproval of his father on the line)😀 We rotated and the performance contributed with Oisin Ryan billy Sean and Lee slotting in perfectly to keep the pressure on ferrybank. Eoin and Eric done well to win a series of corners but we couldn’t get the vital touch on them and had to wait until 15 to go to get a chance at a third goal when Jim was dragged to the ground when in on goal to win a blatant penalty.A long long discussion then took place before Jim eventually handed the ball to Josh to complete his Hatric and wrap up the three points for us and a well earned first win for the boys. Josh with a Hatric just edged Sam for man of the match who ran the show in the middle today. A great performance from all 16 lads today and some very positive signs for an ever improving group

U14 Southend 2- Mooncoin Celtic 2

The lads were absolutely on top in this game but just couldn’t put the ball in the net, conceded 2 goals from a mistake and a lapse in concentration. Felt like it just wasn’t our day, the boys probably set a record for shots on goal but just wasn’t going in eventually a great strike from tommy keogh got us one back and a last minute penalty won and rebounded by jack twomey got us level.Definitely 3 points left out there but some spirit out of the lads to dig out the 2 goals, another minute and they would have got another.

1B Result: Mooncoin Celtic 0 Tycor 5

Tough day at the office for the lads today. Done well in patches of the game but found chances hard to come by against a well organised team that were going for the league. They took there chances and could have been more only for young Bradley making some outstanding saves. Couldn’t fault the lads effort today just was one of those days.

U9 Villa FC 0 – 6 Mooncoin Celtic

We travelled to Villa today with a large squad and continued our unbeaten run this season! ⚽The boys got off to a great start and were impressive throughout, with some excellent football and shooting on display.Goals came from Aidan, Daniel, James, Joe, Rhian, Hamadi, Toby, Tiernan, Aaron, Ben, Luke and Conor.A special mention to Conor O’Keeffe, who scored the pick of the goals! 🚀Great to see so many players getting amongst the goals!Credit to Villa, who battled hard to the final whistle.Well done to all the lads. Another great team performance! 👏⚽

U13 Dungarvan 3 Mooncoin Celtic 3

Only 1 place to start with this 1, and that’s with a huge thank you to the 10 boys that traveled to Dungarvan so early on a Saturday morning, Dick and myself are very grateful for your efforts. They set about their task of containing Dungarvan and playing on the break to great effect creating a couple of decent half chance in the process. We then, somewhat against the run of play found ourselves 2 down after 15 minutes through a bit of carelessness on our part. Down by 2 and a man short you could have forgiven the boys for throwing in the towel, but not once did the heads drop, and by halftime it was all square with goals from Oisin and Odhran, Adam with the assist for our 1st.Incredibly the game could have been 10v10 with 10 minutes of the 2nd half played, when the referee could have evened up the 2 sides. With Tom clean through on goal, he was pulled down on the edge of the box with only a yellow card shown. Oisin is making a habit of hanging free kicks up from this range and he made no mistake this time either putting us 3-2 in front.Dungarvan leveled it up shortly afterwards with a well taken free kick of their own.And so it remained until the final whistle.To be a little disappointed not to come away with a victory goes a long way to explaining how much effort, endeavour and hard work these boys showed. They should be very proud of themselves.

Congratulations

Finally best of luck to Lexi Walsh and Molly Walsh in being involved with Waterford Girls u16 interleague squad with Lexi scoring a great goal at the weekend. Also congratulations and best of luck to Harry Purcell on his involvement with the boys u12 Waterford interleague squad also.