Ten man Newport survive to national round of FAI Junior Cup
SOCCER: FAI Junior Cup 4th Round
Prospect Priory 1
Newport Town 2
(after extra time)
Ten man Newport Town AFC knocked Premier division side, Prospect Priory, out of the FAI Junior Cup in a pulsating fourth round game on Sunday on a 2-1 scoreline.
The first few minutes were cagey with both sides probing but Prospect were unlucky not to take the lead in the eighth minute, when a curling shot from the left hand side narrowly went wide of the right hand side.
The game was then held up for five minutes not long after, when the home keeper needed attention for a facial injury. In the 19th minute, Jake Dillon rose highest to meet a Davy Ryan corner but unfortunately his powerful header went just over the crossbar.
The remainder of the first half was a close affair with neither side creating any real clear-cut goalscoring chances. With referee George Clancy playing injury time for the earlier attention to the Prospect keeper it looked like the first half would remain scoreless until Jake Dillon was in the right place to tap home from close range, after the keeper couldn’t hold onto a long-range shot from Seán Ryan.
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