26.2.12
\nSpartak 1 Brendanville 3<\/p>\n
Without ever playing well, Spartak created enough chances from set pieces in the first half to be well ahead at half time; instead they finished the half a goal down.<\/p>\n
Glen Burke, on another day, night have finished the half with a hat trick, while Seamus McCahill also shot over from close range.<\/p>\n
Brendanville created a couple of chances and got the vital goal on 14 minutes when the Sky Blues failed to pick up the thrower and the cross found a gap at the back post which made it easy for the striker.<\/p>\n
The home side were bedevilled by poor distribution from the back throughout which frustrated many passing moves. The playing surface was a disgrace to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown \u2013 the pitch was bumpy with grass uncut for months despite the warm weather.<\/p>\n
A free kick following an eccentric refereeing decision found a visiting player at the back post on 52 minutes and he nudged the ball home. Spartak reduced arrears on 58 minutes when Ciaran Keogh\u2019s corner was deflected in by a defender but in general were reduced to long range efforts, one of which, by Neil McGowan , was spilled by the keeper but retrieved just in time.<\/p>\n
A break out goal on 85 minutes sealed the win for a Brendanville side who were solid and rode their first half luck.<\/p>\n
Spartak paid dearly for a sleepy start, lack of midfield work rate and poor passing by defenders with time to do better. A disappointing performance.<\/p>\n
Form Report
\nPeter O\u2019Toole 5 Dave Browne 5 Ciaran Keogh 5 Steve Grier 5 Alex Kenny 7 Keith Kelly 5 Neil McGowan 6 Glen Burke 6 Seamus McCahill 5 Graham Breen 6 Ger Byrne 5
\nSubs: Dave Thomson 6 Graham McEnroe 5 Anto Doyle 5 Conor Canavan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
26.2.12 Spartak 1 Brendanville 3 Without ever playing well, Spartak created enough chances from set pieces in the first half to be well ahead at half time; instead they finished the half a goal down. Glen Burke, on another day, night have finished the half with a hat trick, while Seamus McCahill also shot over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-sunday-lsl-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spartakdynamofc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spartakdynamofc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spartakdynamofc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spartakdynamofc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spartakdynamofc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spartakdynamofc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/www.spartakdynamofc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spartakdynamofc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spartakdynamofc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spartakdynamofc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}