Castle Villa 2nds-1

Electro Celtic- 4

Castle Villa 2nd team played their first league game in poor conditions on Saturday evening against Electro Celtic.

1st Half

Both teams started positively with good moves on both sides of the pitch but no real chances came from either side. Electro Celtic let a long throw into the box where the ball was scuffed around and fell to an Electro player and he punished the mistakes of Castle Villa, 1-0.

This changed the tone of the game and an Electro midfielder picked up the ball from a Castle Villa kick out and drove it home from outside the box, 2-0.

Yet again Castle Villa were punished, this time from a counter attack which seen Electro Celtic move the ball from deep in their half all the way to the Castle Villa 6 yard box, 3-0

Just before half time Electro added another, a free header from a corner summer up the first half for Castle Villa

2nd half

In the 2nd half Castle Villa got into the game. Peter Olwill got a well deserved goal after a good first half performance, he picked the ball up on the edge of the box and worked it into the D and placed it far out of the keepers reach, 4-1

Olwill almost got a second when in a similar move to his first goal, he got the ball from deep and worked it into the box but this time it went just over the bar.

Substitute Calvin Doherty almost got a goal for himself when a free kick was crossed into the box but the Electro Celtic goalkeeper did well to keep it out.

Castle Villa defended well for the rest of the game not allowing any major chances for Electro, the introduction of Dylan Gargan stopped any fast breaks down the wings, while Micheal O’Byrne was strong in the air.

Good work between Peter Olwill and Calvin Doherty continued but Electro Celtic stayed organised until the final whistle and did well not to concede.

Despite the scoreline there was positives after a strong second half performance for Castle Villa’s 2nd teams first outing.

Man of the match: Peter Olwill

Team

1-Luke Mulholland

2-Aadam Khan

3-Jake Smyth (c)

4-Micheal O’Byrne

5-Brian Lynch

6-Daire Gaynor

7-Peter Olwill (1)

8-Jack Henry

9-Nathan Byrne

10-Seamus Rooney

11-David Rock

Subs

12-Paddy Farrelly

13-Dylan Gargan (>For Jake Smyth)

14-Aidan Byrne

15-Jack smyrh

16-Adam Kerins

17-Calvin Doherty (>For David Rock)