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Five star Carn crush Gleneely
28.01.10
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Carndonagh...5 (Gerard McEleney 5, Eanna Newton 33, Shane Doherty 43, Tiernan Coyne 85, Liam Doherty 90) Gleneely...0 by Michael Stamp, Inishowen Independent (Photos: Evan Logan) AFTER last week’s impressive 1-0 victory over high-flying Carrowmena, it was important for Carndonagh to win on Sunday to keep their momentum going. Gleneely were also coming into this game off the back of a victory having defeated Sea Rovers the previous week. With both sides quite evenly matched a tight encounter was expected to be on the cards. What occurred was a one sided rout for the home team who were solid at the back, tidy in possession in midfield and most importantly clinical in attack. Indeed if the home side can continue to play like this then Premier League football may not be too far away for Dermot Coyle’s charges. |
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Carndonagh began the game
as aggressors when a Ronan Doherty free kick caused
concern in the Gleneely back line in the opening
minutes. Doherty was at it again soon afterwards when a
great ball in landed to Shane Doherty who headed just
over. Gleneely has chances too and Johnny Lafferty
headed onto Ruairí Kelly who hit a beautiful curled shot
just over with Declan O’Donnell rooted to his line. Carndonagh broke the deadlock in the ninth minute. Another free kick from Ronan Doherty evaded the Gleneely defence and centre back Gerard McEleney was there to touch home. Emboldened by the goal Carndonagh started to exert their superiority on the game and the visitors were reduced to chasing shadows for much of the half. The returning Dermot Doherty had an effort just over and goalscorer Gerard McEleney had a few efforts that Daniel McCauley had to take care of. |
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Gleneely hit back with
Barry Kearney testing Declan O’Donnell from distance and
nice interplay between Stephen McLaughlin and John
Doherty that ended when McLaughlin crossed instead of
taking on a straightforward shot. Carndonagh doubled their lead just after half hour mark when Andy Doherty embarked on a good run and found Eanna Newton with a slide rule pass. The young striker kept his head and coolly slotted into the bottom corner. Centre back Kevin Hirrell was lucky to escape with a booking after a two-footed lunge on Jason McElhinney that forced the Gleneely man to have to come off at half time. |
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Two goals became three for
Carn just before half time when Kevin Kelly sent a nice
ball across to Cathal Doherty who flicked on to Shane
Doherty who lashed a thunderous shot into the top
corner. Having been so thoroughly outplayed in the first half Gleneely went for broke in the second by making three changes at half time. Carndonagh almost added a fourth in the opening minutes of the half when a Cathal Doherty shot forced a top rate save from McCauley. Gleneely returned fire with Christy Smith and Declan Kearney both forcing Declan O’Donnell into saves. Dermot Doherty hit just over for Carn on the half volley before Gleneely enjoyed their best spell of the game. |
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John Doherty hit just over
after being teed up by Emmet McConway under pressure
from O’Donnell. JJ McKinley forced O’Donnell into a save
moments later under pressure from Hirrell and a rasping
low shot from John Doherty was pushed just past the post
by the Carndonagh custodian. Gleneely actually had the
ball in the net but saw it ruled out as John Doherty who
got the last touch was correctly adjudged to have been
offside. O’Donnell earned his corn by pulling off
another tremendous save this time from the boot of JJ
McKinley. The visitors’ bad luck continued when a Declan
Kearney free kick that needed only the slightest of
touches to go in floated wide. Gleneely were punished for their prolificacy when two late Carndonagh goals put a somewhat misleading look to the scoreline. Substitute Brendan Tabb capitalised on sloppy play in the Gleneely defence and lashed the ball into Tiernan Coyne who tapped into an empty net. Then at the death Liam Doherty skinned his marker and managed to toe poke past McCauley to make it five and send out a warning to the other First Division promotion chasers. Carndonagh: Declan O’Donnell, Fergal Doherty, Kevin Kelly, Kevin Hirrell (Brendan Tabb), Gerard McEleney, Andy Doherty, Dermot Doherty (Tiernan Coyne), Ronan Doherty, Cathal Doherty, Eanna Newton, Shane Doherty (Liam Doherty). Subs: Kevin Lynch Gleneely: Daniel McCauley, Stephen McLaughlin (JJ McKinley), Eddie McNamee, Barry Diver, Barry Kearney, Jason McElhinney (Christy Smith), John Doherty, Ruairí Kelly (Gareth McLaughlin), Declan Kearney, Johnny Lafferty, Emmet McConway. Subs: Daniel Nolan, Jonathan McLaughlin For full coverage of all your weekend sport, read the Inishowen Independent. |
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