Peamount beat Cork by six in the cup final to seal a double

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Cork City 0

Peamount 6

Peamount United ended two years of pain in the FAI Women’s Cup final by beating Cork City 6-0 at the Tallaght Stadium decisive to seal the league and cup double.

Peamount entered the game hoping for the third time in three years to be lucky in the deciding match, having lost the last two finals to Wexford Youths and not winning the trophy since 2010, while Cork City hoped to score a second win. after his 2017. win.

A goalless and somewhat stale first half had seen the league champions enjoying the best of the game, without appearing to make a breakthrough.

That changed quickly and decisively early in the second half when Republic of Ireland international Stephanie Roche got a quick break before captain Aine O’Gorman and Karen Duggan made it 4-0, and substitutes Rebecca Watkins and Teagan Ruddy completed the win and secured the double.

Cork City had lost their last league meeting 3-0 last month, but it started off brilliantly when Peamount was pressured early in the opening exchanges, but it was the Dublin team that began to prevail in the game as the first 10 minutes passed. onwards, led by the incursions of the Irish international Aine O’Gorman on the right flank.

The game settled on a cautious polling pattern from Peamount and Cork’s attempts to break forward on the counter, though neither side designed a shot until a good right-hand job from Stephanie Roche, whose persistent pressure saw her. win the ball.

He made it to the starting line before pulling on the back for O’Gorman, who had slid into the box, but his effort with his left foot was lost.

Sophie Liston of Cork City in action against Dearbhaile Beirne of Peamount United

Cork City made their first shot on goal in the 29th minute, but Sophie Liston’s speculative effort from the distance jumped high and well off Niamh Reid-Burke’s crossbar.

O’Gorman’s move led to Peamount’s winger down the left as he traded wings with Alannah McEvoy for the second phase of the half and his cross was greeted by the head of Eleanor Ryan-Doyle, but his attempt was comfortably handled by Maria O ‘Sullivan. . Seconds later, Roche fired a dangerous shot just off target from a tight angle as Peamount continued to apply pressure.

Karen Duggan, who scored a long-range screech for Peamount in the 2019 final, then headed shortly after a corner headed toward the far post.

Six minutes before the break, Duggan fired from outside the area, but his effort was deflected.

Just before the break, McEvoy came down the right flank for an increasingly dominant Peamount and found Ryan-Doyle.

But the attacking midfielder failed to make a forceful connection and the ball gave a grateful loop in O’Sullivan’s arms and the teams went into halftime scoreless.

Peamount had been unable to assert his pressure in the first half. But they cleared it up immediately after the break.

Just 40 seconds after the restart, Lucy McCartan threw a ball into the Cork City right-back that Stepanie Roche clung to.

From a tight angle to the left of the goal, the forward fired a precise low shot past O’Sullivan and into the far corner of the net to break the deadlock.

It was Roche who extended Peamount’s lead just six minutes later. Ryan-Doyle curled up on a cross that McEvoy climbed on. The Peamount winger showed composure in the area, setting up Roche as the forward found the same corner of the Cork City net.

McEvoy nearly tripled in the 54th minute with an excellent lateral volley effort inside the box, but the ball went wide.

Roche, who was on a hat-trick, came close to scoring his third just before the appointed time when he beat the ball off Cork defender Danielle Burke and took aim at goal.

But O’Sullivan swung his shot around the post. At the other end, Cork City was struggling to advance in the opposition half as Peamount comfortably dealt with any forward forays and at the same time freed his own full-backs Lauryn O’Callaghan and Dearbhaile Beirne to take the field. and cause more damage.

Duggan then tried to increase Peamount’s lead when the midfielder received possession on the left edge of the box, but his curling effort was well saved by O’Sullivan, whose workload was increasing as the game progressed.

Roche tested O’Sullivan in the 73rd minute with a left foot from the right. The Cork City goalkeeper crawled to her right and deflected the effort for a corner.

And Roche was back in Peamount’s third as he provided a deft assist in the area to play on Aine O’Gorman after an intricate play between manager James O’Callaghan’s attackers.

O’Gorman epitomized composure as he slipped the ball past O’Sullivan and into the back of the net.

Peamount rioted in the final stages when the Cork challenge closed.

With 10 minutes remaining, Duggan scored his second goal in the cup final in as many years when he headed into a corner to make it 4-0.

Karen Duggan celebrates with teammates after scoring Peamount’s fourth goal

Two minutes later, Peamount made it 5-0 when substitute Rebecca Watkins reacted first when an O’Sullivan save got in her way and she scored on an empty net.

They didn’t finish when Teagan Ruddy shot high past O’Sullivan with an emphatic finish for Peamount’s sixth with five minutes to go.

Cork City: Maria O’Sullivan; Zara Foley, Ciara McNamara) Nadine Seward ’80), Danielle Burke, Nathalie O’Brien (Shaunagh McCarthy ’80); Becky Cassin, Eabha O’Mahony; Sophie Liston (Lauren Walsh ’80), Christina Dring (Laura Shine ’71), Saoirse Noonan, Lauren Egbuloniu (Abby McCarthy ’56).

Peamount United: Niamh Reid-Burke; Lauryn O’Callaghan, Claire Walsh, Niamh Farrelly (Della Doherty ’84), Dearbhaile Beirne (Sadhbh Doyle ’78); Lucy McCartan, Karen Duggan, Alannah McEvoy (Megan Smyth-Lynch ’69), Eleanor Ryan-Doyle (Rebecca Watkins ’78), Aine O’Gorman, Stephanie Roche (Tiegan Ruddy ’84).



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