Glenanne 2 (Alan Lewis, Mark Lambe) YMCA 1 (David Robinson)
Glenanne just about stayed in the title race thanks to Alan Lewis stunning late goal to nick the win against YMCA at St Mark's.
Mark Lambe poached a loose ball in the circle to scramble in from ten yards for the opener for a 1-0 half-time lead.
David Robinson - playing his fourth game in three days after his Ireland A exertions - levelled the game early in the second, once again with a deflection, using his reverse to guide past Steven Doran.
But, in a tightly-fought battle, Alan Lewis' (pictured, right) superb deflection - his first for the club since moving from Monkstown - gave the Glens the decisive lead. He added a delightful touch to Stephen Butler's cross for 2-1 and move his new club within four points of Pembroke.
A visit to UCD next Tuesday could move them to within one ahead of the final Saturday of the season though they will do so without Butler, Graham Shaw and Joe Brennan who are all in Alicante with the Irish squad.
Elsewhere, in division two, Naas produced their performance of the season to beat Weston 5-0 and can possibly lift themselves off the bottom of the table should they win their last match of the season against Skerries.
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12 comments:
Hey Steve, you got the Glenanne goals the wrong way round. Lambe scored the first goal and Lewis scored the winner!!
Alan Lewis scored a super goal! Correct it was the winner and in fairness what a winner. Fair play to him...first of many I bet...
is it not a bit unfair tat in such an important match teams lose some of there stronger players to the irish team
naas scorers? what a great result for them...
are they still heading down?
Sorry, don't have the Naas scorers. If anyone has them to hand please let me know as its a bit late for me to make calls. Am off early tomorrow morning to Hamburg, too, so may not get a chance to update this.
As far as relegation is concerned, that will be down to league restructuring if they decide to drop down in the same manner as SBPP and Portrane did last year I believe. So, basically, it remains to be seen.
As for the Glens story, cheers for the feedback, story is duly corrected.
With the season coming to a close, and some strong players coming through the ranks in some lower half teams, will there be much movement of players in the summer? any rumours??
went up to st marks tonight to watch ym, glens game. noticed that glenanne played s butler as sweeper which was bizarre. In fairness the glens ran the game for about 50 min of the game. very tough or doggid side with buckets of experience. thought ym could have nicked it at the end with a short corner. ym just seem to fall short on the mental side of things getting a yellow card out of frustration. some nice players but in the wrong team.
Keano!
I think it shows how much YM are improving. Struggling to get clear of the relegation zone last year and start of this year, but now there challenging the big teams. 2 draws with 3rock and other results could show that they could be a force next year to move into the top 4!
Stephen
Is there any clarification of what is happening with some of the teams in Div 1/Div2 and indeed of the league 'restructuring'. Maybe there was a post about it here somewhere that I missed.
This wkend I heard a couple of things like Kilkenny dispanding, Naas dispanding or else doing something similar to Brendans where they drop down leagues.
If Kilkenny get relegated and both Naas and Kilkenny then dispand or drop down leagues wont that leav only 7 teams in Div 2?
How do the branch plan on restructuring if that happens?
I've heard nothing along these lines. A couple of years ago, there was a suggestion Kilkenny would not take up promotion to division one which never subsequently came to pass.
At a guess, clubs will wait until the dust settles on the season before making any final decision.
As such, until the Leinster Branch hear and have such stories confirmed, I'd take these issues as speculation.
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