Dergview FC progress to the last 16 of Intermediate Cup
Thursday, 2 February 2012
The Dergview FC team who defeated PSNI 3-1 at home in the fourth round of the Intermediate Cup at Darragh Park on Saturday.
Dergview 3
PSNI 1.
GOALS from Ryan Campbell, Nathan Cashel and John Carlin ensured that Dergview made comfortable progress to the last 16 of the Intermediate Cup on Saturday, after beating PSNI 3-1 at Darragh Park.
While the conditions were not ideal and did not lend themselves to free-flowing football, Dergview produced a vastly-improved outing from their previous week's effort against Newington YC.
And had it not been for Keith Wilson in the Championship Two side's goals, Harry McConkey's men would have at least doubled their three goal tally, after a classy performance.
The home side got off to the perfect start when with just two minutes on the clock a sweeping attack instigated by Liam McMenamin and involving Campbell and Warner Mullen ultimately ended with Cashel, in full flight, being tripped by visiting skipper, Scott McCrory, as he scampered down the left channel.
McCrory was booked for his trouble and Campbell duly dispatched the spot kick low to goalkeeper Wilson's left.
The early promise though counted for little when, just six minutes later, home netminder Stefan McCusker misjudged Rory Hamill's 25-yard free kick that skidded off the sodden surface and inside his right upright.
The setback failed to dampen Dergview's desire and enthusiasm as the excellent Andy Sproule waltzed in from the right to usher in Mullen, who slid the ball past Wilson only for covering defender to clear the line.
Campbell then rifled high and wide on the turn, Sproule failed by a whisker to turn home the most inviting of crosses by raiding left-back Carlin before Adam Lecky, who along with Blaine Burns, shone in centre midfield, sent a stinging volley goalward that was again blocked by a PSNI defender.
Deteriorate
As conditions continued to deteriorate the Championship One outfit remained the dominant force as former Glentoran striker Hamill and his partner Luilazs Adamczyk struggled against the home back four of McMenamin, Carlin, Gareth Porter and skipper, Garbh Gallagher.
And Harry McConkey's homesters finished the half with a flourish after a clever intricate attack on the left involving Lecky, Burns, Carlin and Mullen allowed Cashel to tip-toe through and stroke the ball inside Wilson's right post.
Moments later Mullen, after being released by Carlin, fired a rasping angled drive from the left wide of Wilson's back stick before the goalkeeper pushed a close range effort by Campbell around his right post, in the wake of another sublime pass from the influential Lecky.
The constabulary were more competitive in the second half but in the final third the hosts carried a significantly greater threat than they have done in recent outings - that man Wilson again riding to the rescue of the visitors by acrobatically tipping over a curling effort by Campbell after more intelligent play by Mullen.
The PSNI custodian, at this juncture, was proving unbeatable and shortly afterwards produced a Gordon Banks moment to deny Campbell, after a mesmerising attack, which saw Sproule and Mullen at their vintage best.
Sproule's explosive pace was proving problematic for the visitors to say the least and on 63 moments the Derg flyer galloped across field to open the door for the marauding Carlin, who drilled an unstoppable shot under the diving Wilson.
Home right-back Porter was next to have a pop by fizzing a Dani Alves-esque angled drive inches past Wilson's right post, in the wake of excellent approach play by Lecky, Carlin and Campbell, although the defender almost blotted his copybook when his back pass stuck in the mud to short change McCusker. The Derg netminder, though, atoned for his earlier mistake by denying Hamill a certain goal.
At the other end, Wilson remained inspired, diving full stretch to push an Aaron Walsh curler around his left upright.
It was the visitors, though, who almost had the final say when a Gary Brown pile-driver, which took a wicked deflection off a defender, was superbly tipped over by McCusker.
Dergview: S McCusker; G Porter (J McCaskie, 72); J Carlin (D Maxwell, 90+1); L McMenamin; G Gallagher (cpt); B Burns; A Sproule; A Lecky; W Mullen; R Campbell; N Cashel (A Walsh, 72). Sub not used: A Buchanan.
PSNI: K Wilson; S Brennan; P May (G O'Neill, 90); S McCrory (cpt); P Mackle; G Brown; M Forsythe (W Fry, 78); B Mulgrew; L Adamczyk (M Hadden, 56); R Hamill; M Holden.
Referee: J Degan, Limavady.
Due to Ballyclare Comrades' Intermediate Cup encounter with Limavady being played this coming Saturday, Dergview will now travel to face Ards in the league on Tuesday, February 7 (kick-off 7.45pm)
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