On Saturday last we got out league campaign off to a start when we travelled to St. David’s in Cullen forour eagerly awaited first match of the season.
A massive squad of 18 players travelled in anticipation to Cullen to represent Kilfinane in what was our first underage soccer fixture in years.
A massive squad of 18 players travelled in anticipation to Cullen to represent Kilfinane in what was our first underage soccer fixture in years.
Forest started the game well and created some good chances with some good passing, but failed to punish St. David’s by putting the ball in the net.
Just before half time St. David’s got a freekick outside our penalty area and with a wicked deflection off the wall, the ball nestled in the bottom corner of the goals.
Against the run of play we found ourselves 1 down at half time.
Early in the second half StDavid’s struck again to put them 2 up, but Forestkept going and almost equalised with Neil Hennessy unluckily shooting wide anda free kick from Ian O’Brien hitting the cross bar.Forest were awarded a penalty in the last ten minutes and up stepped Ian O’Brien to pull one back for Forest, but St. David’s held on for the 3 points.
This was a good performance by Forest as lots of players were playing together for the first time, well done and keep it up.
Team: Joel Slattery, John Carroll, Paddy Hennessy, Billy Kiely, Darryl Crotty, Adrian Cooke, Diarmuid Lawlor, Ian O’Brien, Alan McCarthy, Shane Shanahan, Neil Hennessy.
Subs: Eddie O’Keeffe, Conor Clancy, Conor O'Dwyer, Gavin Daly, Jordan Slattery, Rob Ahern and Kevin Hosford.
