Dundela 2- 1Bangor
Intermediate First Division
Wilgar Park 29/10/05
Dundela began the match brightly and found
themselves in the lead after just 5 minutes. A 30-yard free
kick cannoned off the Bangor wall to Brian Hylands on the
left wing. The former Bangor player’s low cross picked
out the unmarked McKnight, who from 12 yards, swivelled to
slot the ball past Wes Lamont in the Bangor goal.
With the wind in their backs, Bangor spent most
of the half camped in and around the Dundela penalty area.
After 8 minutes, Jim McCloskey fired a low 25-yard free kick
along the wet turf forcing Tony Miskelly to spill the ball
but the danger was averted by an alert Dundela defender.
After 13 minutes, a deep cross by the advancing Nicholl picked
out Lee Feeney whose header from 12 yards was just too high.
It was Nicholl again who instigated the next Bangor chance
with a long throw in from the right flank. Brian Russell glanced
Nicholl’s throw-in towards McCloskey, but the winger’s
header was straight at Miskelly from 4 yards.
With this dominance, Bangor threw men forward and it was
the right back, Chris Nicholl, who almost found the equaliser.
A long free kick was only half cleared to Nicholl whose thunderous
20 yard shot grazed the top of the cross bar.
After 20 minutes, Lee Feeney was out of luck as he found
the wrong side of the post from 18 yards. A low free kick
from McCloskey picked out Morrow in the penalty area. The
Bangor captain laid the ball off to Feeney on the edge of
the area, but the former-Rangers player directed his low shot
against the left upright.
The woodwork again came to Dundela’s rescue after 23
minutes. A Jackie Kerr cross from the right picked out McCloskey
at the far post. McCloskey’s header was spilled by Miskelly
and from the resultant scramble, a Bangor foot directed the
ball against the right hand post.
Tony Miskelly then saved well from a Feeney shot across goal
after good work from Ryan Brown on the right wing after 38
minutes.
Half time: Dundela 1 – 0 Bangor
The second half resumed with both teams and the referee changing
their shirts from the first half due to the intense rainfall.
Neither side could force any meaningful attack on goal in
the opening minutes of the restart. After 68 minutes, Craig
Bowers replaced Ryan Brown 2, and the substitute almost scored
with his first touch. Andy Morrow picked out Lee Feeney who
rolled the ball across goal to Bowers. Miskelly got down well
to half block Bowers’ shot but a Dundela defender was
alert enough to hook the ball off the goal line.
Minutes later, Dundela increased their lead. Substitute Craig
Dougherty acrobatically flicked on a throw in from the right.
Dougherty’s flick found Johnny Nixon at the penalty
spot where the midfielder powered his header past Wes Lamont.
Bangor got a goal back after 75 minutes when Jim McCloskey
gathered the rebound from a Bowers shot from 6 yards before
hammering home past the exposed Miskelly from 8 yards.
The last chance of the match fell to Dundela, and but for
a spectacular Lamont save, the score would have been 3-1.
Lamont threw himself to his right to push substitute Glenn
Dougherty’s 25-yard free kick round the post.
Final Score: Dundela 2 – 1 Bangor
Bangor: Lamont, Nicholl (Massey), Cleary, McStravick, Holland,
Russell, Brown (Bowers), Kerr, Morrow, Feeney, McCloskey.
Sub not used: Kennedy
Scorer: McCloskey (’75)
Dundela: Miskelly, Walker, Hylands, D Nixon, Murray, J Nixon,
McCracken (Gourley), Stewart (C Dougherty), McKnight, Upton
(G Dougherty), Parker.
Scorers: McKnight (‘5), J Nixon (’73)
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