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It was wall to wall football in Porterstown Park as Celtic hosted visitors from County Kildare.
13B ran out comfortable winners against Ballyoulster Utd. Charlie Boles opened the scoring in the 3rd minute to settle the nerves with a neat finish into the bottom corner. The lead was doubled 5 minutes later by Fred Mutawe with a sublime left-footed 30-yard free kick over everybody into the top left corner. The home side were in cruise control at this stage, dominating possession with neat passing and movement. But it was the visitors who came closest to scoring next when their speedy forward got through the home defence and unleashed a rocket from the edge of the box only to be foiled when Ethan Hoey got his (new) right boot to it to save at the expense of a corner which was well defended. Two minutes later Charlie doubled his tally to put the home side 3-0 to the good. A bizarre moment almost brought Ballyoulster back into the game when Ethan turned his back on the game to return a ball to the game on the adjoining pitch but the shot went narrowly wide. HT 3-0
All the talk at half time was about keeping the concentration and staying focussed on the job in hand. All four players who sat out the first half started the second and within 3 minutes Oisin Dunne hammered home for 4-0. Ballyoulster came into the game a little more after this and a superb through ball from the halfway line almost got their striker in for a chance to reduce the deficit but Ethan charged out of his box to reach the ball first and clear the danger. His clearance was intercepted but the retreating Ethan managed to parry the resulting shot away for a corner. Shortly after this, in the 43rd minute, Marcus Clinton made it 5-0 from close range after a ricochet from Mustafa shot and that is how the game ended.
A very enjoyable evening’s football with both teams providing lots of good football and excitement which was warmly applauded by all spectators at the final whistle. All 15 of the home players played their part in achieving this result making it difficult to single anyone out as man of the match. But in the end the nod went to Charlie for his overall performance and two first-half goals.
match action
It was a very tough battle between Celtic's 13B1 and Rathcoole Boys. Neither side flinched and despite both sides going close, it was to end scoreless. Gavin Peters went very close in the first half with his shot from 20 yards out that was brilliantly stopped by the Rathcoole net minder. 0-0 match action
