Olv35s 2 (T.Byrne S.O'Reilly) Hyde park Fc 2

OLV 35s
             Rory Keogh
Garreth Mahon, Gordon Farrell, Martin Dunican, Gerry Shannon,
Terry Byrne, Garreth Boyle, James Coates  (C),Brian Fitzsimons,
Bob Hannon, Stewy O'Reilly.,
Keith Derwin, Jonny Dutton, Phil Lowndes, James McCabe, Eoin Quinn.
Manager John Lowndes.
Asst manager Brian Fitzsimons.

A fixture we thought we could bank 3 points from finished with us lucky to have got anything.
   Hyde park certainly were up for this game and had us rattled from early on as they were the ones who controlled the tempo of the game from the start. We just couldn't get into our stride and get our passing game going and so it was no surprise when the away team took the lead after a quarter of the game had passed, the goal came from a corner  that could have been easily prevented but our minds seemed to be elsewhere as we didn't pick up the attacker at the back post and he nodded the ball back across the middle of the six yard area for the centreforward who headed home past our keeper,  we were somewhat spurred into action and eventually got our equalizer after our best move of the game saw the ball played across the box and our right winger Terry Byrne was there to finish nicely at the back post, we should have saw out the half level but with 2 minutes remaining our backline didn't deal with an offside situation and the Hyde park forward was left one on one to finish past Keogh who almost made the save.

We started the second half of the game with only one change from the manager and straight away it was noticeable we were much more relaxed than we had been in the previous 45 minutes ,at last we began to get our passing game going and had numerous chances to score with good efforts from Boyle, Hannon and O'Reilly to mention a few, however Hyde park were still playing well and could have scored themselves on the break but our defence had now sussed how to keep the #11 contained. Thankfully we did score again and it was cracker as right back Garreth Mahon played a fine ball over the top for Stewy O'Reilly to run on to and he scored a one touch beauty sending the ball over the onrushing keepers head and into the back of the net . The rest of the game played out with us having the better share of possession and chances but we just couldn't get the winner.