Na Gleannta v Cortoon Shamrocks 28th March

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Na Gleannta 0 - 5   Cortoon Shamrocks 1 - 10

Na Gleannta were outclassed in every department this morning at the Glenamaddy ground.  

They started brightly but quickly became frayed as they succumbed to a 3 point deficit. Goalmouth action was almost non existent as the Cortoon defence and keeper were barely tested during the first half.  

Some rare action in the Cortoon goalmouth during the first half. 







Na Gleannta fought tigerishly but some wayward kicking out of hand too frequently handed possession back to Cortoon, and the scoreboard showed a not insurmountable position for Na Gleannta if they could make their trademark second half assault on the opposition.

The second half saw Na Gleannta open much more purposefully and soon they had cut the arrears to just 3 points as they played with much greater fluency and determination.  Unfortunately the improvement was not to last and some slick plays by Cortoon soon saw them dominating the game with Na Gleannta missing a hatful of chances to trim the deficit both from frees and from open play.

 

Na Gleannta pressurising the Cortoon defence in the second half.

Although Na Gleannta probably had the lion's share of possession and territory in the second half they too often handed that hard won possession to Cortoon and were consequently unable to turn their hard work into points.

 

A Cortoon defender clears after another fruitless Na Gleannta attack.

Panel: Donal Dowd, Jason Kelly, Cathal Davis, Dean O'Rourke, Cillian Raftery, Keith Davis, Peter Lohan, Tommy Curley, Patrick Conneally, Luke Conneally, Thoams Dillon, Cian Connolly, Fergal Dowd, Edward Cuddy, Anthony Comer, John Nolan, Michael Fox, Mark Conneally, Cormac Raftery, Ben Conneally, Nigel Fahy. 

Final score Na Gleannta 0 - 5,  Cortoon Shamrocks 1 - 10

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