A sunny start in Suir Crescent for the u12s. De la Salle came out the blocks quickly but against the run of play Mooncoin scored on the 5 minute mark.Robbie won a corner and scored with a bullet header from a whipped ball in from Sam.
Shoetly after going ahead, Bradley made a fabulous reaction save at 1-0 that gave everyone a boost.
Robbie then turned provider shortly after and played Ethan through who ran half the pitch and took his goal well.
After half time Robbie won a penalty which Ethan converted. It was looking like our first clean sheet until DLS got a deserved goal with 5 minutes left.
Straight from the re-take Samuel played a ball up from the back which Robbie put in the corner to end the game. All 14 lads contributed to a great game of football.
Kevin wore the armband leading the team out last evening against an imposing Piltown team.
The first few minutes saw very few chances at either end until Aaron broke away into the left of the eighteen yard box and his shot hit the near post having beaten the Piltown keeper. Sean had a couple of shots from distance throughout the half which were too close to the keeper.
As the game wore on Piltown grew into the game and were unlucky when Fionn turned a low shot around the far post at full stretch. Minutes later another fine save by Fionn was tipped onto the crossbar only to be nodded in by a Piltown forward. Tadhg, Kevin and Charlie had a busy end to the half in defence and we went into the break glad to be just a goal behind.
The second half saw fresh legs introduced but Mooncoin were still on the back foot. James and Killian coped well defending down our left side.
Kevin played his best match to date on the right side pressing the ball high up the pitch and creating opportunities. Unfortunately Piltown got their second direct from a free kick after a foul on the edge of the area. A third followed soon after when Piltown got on the end of a stray pass and finished in style.
All was not lost and at the other end a handball in the opposition box resulted in a penalty to the home team. Sean stepped up and struck the ball to the keeper’s left.
Another handball outside of the box minutes later gave rise to a free kick. Cian hit a swerving shot which was palmed away for a corner. Mooncoin pressed late but to no further avail.
The game finished 1-3. Many thanks once again to our jersey sponsors Dragonz Den.
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Today’s fixture looked to be in doubt for this Mooncoin Girls U17s team right up until the eleventh hour , as we weren’t sure we would have numbers available to field . But we needn’t have worried , as the 14s and u16s girls stepped foward to help their U17 club mates.
The game started with our girls very nervous , and conceding a goal within the first 5 minutes due to lack of communication when defending a corner, the girls heads dropped slightly. But that didn’t last long, the team began pulling together and were hunting down and fighting for every ball .
Luiseach O Donohue played out of her normal winger position today and stepped in to help as part of our back four with Sophie Scahill , Kate Mc Garth and Ciara O Keeffe . They settled in and worked tirelessly for keep any Bohs attack under control .
Emily Blackmore donned the Goalkeeper gloves today and stepped between the posts . Coming up the pitch on the 25 minute mark to take a free kick in the hopes of an equaliser, that unfortunately didn’t result in the back of the net .
The game went to the break at 1-0 to Bohemians
In the second half we pressed and tried to get the ball up to Bohs half of the pitch as much as we could … We made full use of the subs bench today and all the girls saw some game time .
The result today didn’t go out way , but it was wonderful to see the girls all line out today for their club and for each other .
With the sun shining brightly from early morning, today was always going to be a good day for football and so it proved to be as an unbeaten Park Rangers team came to Suir Crescent.
The early exchanges saw some good passing from Park Rangers and some fine defending from Mooncoin, although it was Mooncoin that got the first on target shots of the match.
This first half was a tight affair, with Will Walsh having to take command of his goal area a number of times. In injury time of the 1st half the deadlock was broken as the Park Rangers left-back hit a fine free kick in to the goal.
One nil down at half time and with the season on the line the next 30 minutes were crucial, and the Mooncoin boys were rightly up for it, apply pressure from the first seconds of the 2nd half.
The Park Rangers keeper made some good saves but Conor Walsh, Sean O’Donoghue, Finn Foskin and Will Mcloughlin all pushing hard and created some fine chances, and sure enough got back in to the game with a goal scored by Conor right on the line.
The Mooncoin tails were up and the boys kept applying pressure, and derseved to go ahead from another goal by Conor W.
Now it was time to dig in and Mooncoin were ready for it, with Ben, Eoghan, Naoise, Sam and Canice fighting for every ball. Naoise H. was just awesome in defence with a Franco Baresi display and if anything did come through Eoghan was in goal to mop it up.
In midfield Daniel, Charlie and Luke worked their socks off and gave it everything and Sam Murphy came on to ensure the tight defense remained unbreakable.
The whistle went, Mooncoin won 2-1 and go top of the u13b league and the shouts of joy could be heard all over the village.
Friday was a great evening for football as the Mooncoin Academy girls hosted girls from Piltowns.
There was loads of super play during the games, some great goals and there were so many girls teams that the photographer couldn’t get around to all the teams.
Captain for the day Viktor led out the team against Bohs and Mooncoin were a goal up inside the first minute when a long pass from Tadhg found Sean who played a cushioned volley into the bottom corner.
Bohs pressed hard for an equaliser but were hit on the break ten minutes in by Cian who won a corner after great work down the wing.
His resultant corner went across the face of goal to Padraig who coolly slotted home. Aaron and birthday boy Tom were dogged throughout and controlled the midfield from then on.
Fionn on goal had a quiet game for once but his handling was excellent as usual when called upon.
Mooncoin were unlucky not to score again in the second half with two attempts each from Tadhg and Aaron whose second hit the woodwork.
A bright result on an equally bright day for the lads and thanks once again to our jersey sponsors at Dragonz Den.
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