Mayo score four to claim Provincial Cup

SOCCER

OSCAR TRAYNOR CUP

Mayo 4-1 Roscommon & District

John Corless at Solar 21 Park, Milebush

Despite a few early scares, Mayo dominated this Oscar Traynor tie and ran out comfortable winners to claim the Provincial Cup, with three wins out of three outings. The win means that they will be rewarded with a home tie in the knock-out stages.

This was a typical January game; Mayo haven’t had a competitive game since November and it showed. Their rhythm deserted them. Their passing was inconsistent. They huffed and puffed for long periods. Despite all that, they won the game and that is all that matters.

Josh McCarthy and Cathal Horan should have put the visitors two-up in the opening fifteen minutes, but were denied by the excellent goalkeeping of Stefan Hester.

Ben Edeh opened the scoring after twenty-five minutes when he shot past Adam McManus in the Roscommon goal, after Man of the Match, Jamie Cawley did excellent work in the approach play. His cross was received by Adam Nugent who passed to Edeh.

The second, on thirty-seven, showed what a fine player Adam Nugent is. His robust, straight-through-the-middle approach, paid dividends when he held off three defenders, to drive home.

Just under the hour, Darren Browne finished from close range, after excellent work in the wing by Cawley, to make it three-nil. Substitute, Callum Andrews, pulled one back for Roscommon three minutes later, when he got in behind the Mayo defence, and Dylan McKee – himself a substitute – got Mayo’s fourth with a confident finish at the end of normal time.

Full report, reactions and pictures in Tuesday’s Mayo News Sport.