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City made the long journey to Drumahoe to take o要 Institute in
our first CIS cup game, and first ever competitive game as a top flight
club.
Institute, with French manager Pascal Vaudequin
in charge, have brought in a number of new players, including several
French players with experience o要 the books of big clubs in their
homeland.
City have had a somewhat quieter summer so it was more
in hope than expectation that the large travelling support made the
journey. With Seamus Kane, Alan Murphy and Shane McGeown all suspended
City gave debuts to Johnny McSorley, David Fairclough, David Ward,
Derek Delaney and Barry Meehan. The game also saw Robert Casey playing
in the unfamiliar position of centre half alongside Fairclough.
Institute
started more brightly with their fluent passing giving City very little
of the ball but equally creating few chances. The o要ly early chance
City had was through a Johnny McSorley free kick which French keeper
Jous had to react smartly to. As the half wore o要 City began to get
into the game more and could have scored after a good break and
cross from David Ward caused confusion in the home penalty area.
Institute
then had a goal disallowed for handball, a letoff for City as the
handball appeared fairly needless, though quite obvious. o要 the
stroke of half time City should have gone ahead after Anto Reilly was
fouled in the box after more good work from David Ward. Derek Delaney
clipped the bar with the resultant penalty unfortunately. Nevertheless
given how the game started City were happy enough to go in at 0-0.
City
began the second half much more purposefully with David Hawthorne in
particular beginning to dominate more in midfield after a quiet first
half. Just after the hour mark it was Hawthorne who was at the heart
of City's first goal, with a beautiful sliderule pass to put David Ward
in. Ward kept his cool brilliantly and picked out Anto Reilly at the
far post. Reilly made no mistake to give City the lead.
Shortly
afterwards Reilly thought he had his second after he reacted
smartly when a David Hawthorne shot was parried, however he was in an
offside position when the initial shot was hit.City had a further
opportunity to extend their lead through Derek Delaney, who rolled his
shot just wide.
It was Institute however who scored next,
after some fairly poor defending and a few missed tackles Andrew
Sproule managed to squeeze the ball in to the net. At that point City
appeared to have run out of steam, with Anto Reilly looking
particularly tired having run all night.
City weren't quite done
yet however, and another David Ward cross caused all sorts of mayhem in
the box allowing David Hawthorne to drill the ball home with 5 minutes
remaining, bringing all 3 points back to Holm Park.
Armagh City:
Rice, Carlisle, Turkington, Casey, Fairclough, McSorley, Ward,
Hawthorne, Reilly, Delaney, Meehan. Subs: Crowe, W Brown, Cullen
Institute: Jous, Boyle, Smith, Porter, Ketchanke, Ogilby, Blair, McCreadie, Divin, N'Goma, Cassidy. Subs: Nash, Sproule, McCabe
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