\n Kerry FC 2 Cobh Ramblers 0\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
Cobh Ramblers’ FAI Cup campaign came to an end with a defeat to Kerry FC at Mounthawk Park.<\/p>\n
It was a disastrous evening for Mick McDermott\u2019s team as they finished the game with nine players after the dismissals of John O\u2019Donovan and captain Shane Griffin.<\/p>\n
Cian Brosnan and Joseph Adams got the goals to send Colin Healy\u2019s side through to the quarter finals for the second successive season.<\/p>\n
This was the fifth meeting of the year between the two teams and any sense of comfortable familiarity evaporated with O\u2019Donovan seeing red for a foul on Brosnan inside 90 seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After missing the resulting free, Kerry scored with their next attack with a left-footed Brosnan volley on the edge of the area in the 10th minute.<\/p>\n
The Ramblers were having a nightmare, something that completely went against the traditional pattern of a Munster Derby that is usually coloured claret and blue.<\/p>\n
Barry Coffey did offer some sort of a response, the midfielder even hit the back of the net, but he was flagged for offside.<\/p>\n
Kerry went on to win a corner and Sean O\u2019Connell\u2019s set-piece was flicked wide by Chris McQueen in the 38th minute.<\/p>\n
It took some time for Cobh to establish some sense of composure, with their best spell of the first half coming in the dying seconds.<\/p>\n
The game restarted with Jonas Hakkinen going long and finding an unmarked Coffey, who set up Cian Murphy for a low shot that went just wide.<\/p>\n
The striker followed that up in the 64th minute by getting under a Cian Bargary cross and having a close range header stopped at the near post by Matthew Connor.<\/p>\n
The Ramblers kept going in a bid to keep momentum, and their next chance to equalise was flicked wide by Harvey Cribb off a free-kick.<\/p>\n
Things were building nicely from a Cobh point of view, until the referee spotted a push in the back inside the box. Adams stepped up to take the penalty in the 64th minute and the substitute made no mistake when up against Timothy Martin.<\/p>\n
McDermott went for it late on with nothing to lose by bringing on Dylan McGlade and Matthew Whelan as his team tried to pull a goal back.<\/p>\n
Shane Griffin\u2019s second yellow in injury time effectively ended the game, and extinguish any hope of a rescue mission in Tralee.<\/p>\n
\n KERRY: Matthew Connor; Sean O\u2019Connell, Oran Crowe, Christopher McQueen, Carl Mujaguzi, Ronan Teehan, Robert Cleary, Kevin Williams, Cian Brosnan, Samuel Aladesanusi, Niall Brookwell.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: Joseph Adams for Aladesanusi (53); Finn Barrett for Brosnan (65), Ryan Perez Barrett (87).<\/p>\n
\n COBH: Timothy Martin; Jonas Hakkinen, Cian Coleman, John O\u2019Donovan, Shane Griffin, Niall O\u2019Keeffe, Harvey Cribb, Shane Griffin, Barry Coffey, Cian Bargary, Cian Murphy.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: Iestyn Hughes for O\u2019Keeffe (60), Dylan McGlade for Bargary (72), Matthew Whelan for Murphy (72), Samuel Bellis for Coffey (81), Rhys Gourdie for Griffin (81).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: Aaron O\u2019Dowd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry FC 2 Cobh Ramblers 0\u00a0 Cobh Ramblers’ FAI Cup campaign came to an end with a defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2211,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-1783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-soccer","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}