GreenfieldtakepointsatGlenPark
On a beautiful sunny morning for a game of football, two unbeaten teams in Glen United and Greenfield took to the field up in Glen Park to seek to retain their unbeaten records and vie for top spot in the North Louth Winter League.
From the start it was a quick, physical affair with no quarter given or taken. Glen United as the home team pushed hard to press the league leaders Greenfield into mistakes so they could be taken advantage off. Their target man Conor Boland was a handful for the Greenfield center half pairing of Aidan McGuinness and Ger Collins. Glen through the McCann brothers tried to play off Boland, who was holding the ball up well and bringing other people into play on a regular basis.
The supply for Glen was slowly being cut off through Darren Callan, Ciaran Fox, Alan and Gavin Lennon. The Greenfield midfield started to exert their dominance in their play, possession and physicality. A great three pass move led a fine ball being played into the league’s joint top goal scorer and Greenfield’s Lee Wright duly dispatched the ball into the net for 1-0. It was hard on the Glen centre back Ciaran O’Hare and goalkeeper Danny Watters who were having fine games. This settled Greenfield and only a short time later it was two. A fine cross field ball from Ger Collins found Joe Needham and his shot was pushed onto the post by Watters only for Aidan Mcguinness to fire left footed into the net. So halftime came and it was two nil.
The second half came and Greenfield knew Glen would throw everything at them. A Glen United man of the match performance from Mark Meehan pushed his team on and they pulled one back through Philly Martin. But the turning point was when Martin was five yards out and missed a chance to equalize. A miraculous one hand save from Greenfield netminder Eamonn Roe denied Martin the equaliser and also woke his team up. Within five minutes Greenfield went up the field and substitute Tommy McCoy scored the first of his brace with a powerful drive, Glen resorted to a back three and tried to push on but this left a lot of space for the counter attack and they were picked off with another McCoy drive into the bottom corner with the keeper having no chance.
So the final score was 4-1 but if Glen had of taken their chances it might have been a different story. Greenfield played the prettier flowing football and march on still unbeaten and top of the league but Glen will surely take points off a lot of teams with their energizing attacking football and can make Glenmore a fortress that their play deserves. Final score Glen 1 Greenfield 4.