KENNEDY PLAY OFF
Limerick Desmond (0) 1 Seamus Flanagan
West Cork (0) 0
Our first game on Thursday was against West Cork to decide placings in the 2011 Kennedy Cup and Desmond opened brightly in the first half with Mickey Hickey playing down the wing to Van Mambounana and he played a one two with Lee Kelly and Mambounana shot was spilled by the keeper but a West Cork defender cleared off the line and within sixty seconds a Desmond corner delivered by McSweeney to the back post was headed over by Mambounana. Desmond should have taken the lead on twelve minutes when we opened up the West Cork defence when Mikey Morrissey found McSweeney in space on the left wing and he released Mambounana down the wing and he cut the ball back to Lee Kelly but his effort from close range was wide of the target and Desmond had West Cork under pressure again soon after but Mambounana shot from just outside the area was headed wide by a West Cork defender and Mambounana was in the thick of the action on eighteen minutes when he done well to beat the close attentions of several West Cork players and he crossed to Lee Kelly but the keeper done well to save Kelly’s effort. Desmond survived a scare after this when a mix up in the defence Mark Buckley rounded the advancing keeper but Padhraic O’ Connor done extremely well to clear off the line. Limerick Desmond took the lead with nine minutes remaining when substitute Seamus Flanagan done well to latch onto a long ball by Kyle Cotter as the West Cork defence failed to deal with the danger and Flanagan done well to get control of the ball and roll it into the empty net and Flanagan brought the best out of the keeper on fifty five minutes when Edward Sheehy set him up and Sheehy had a go himself sixty seconds later when he hit a decent shot from an acute angle which looked to be dipping under the cross bar but the keeper done well to collect and the last few minutes of injury time with Mambounana setting up McSweeney but his effort was saved and Desmond done extremely well to hold onto their one goal lead with great defending by Padraig Walsh preventing West Cork from drawing level and a brilliant save by Richard Hayes in the last minute when he took the ball off the toe of a West Cork attacker.
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