Donegal 3-17
Cavan 0-13
DONEGAL ISSUED A statement of intent tonight in the EirGrid Ulster U21 football championship as they stormed to a 13-point victory over Cavan in tonight’s semi-final at Brewster Park in Enniskillen.
After the match was originally postponed last week due to bad weather conditions, Donegal made no mistake to book a place in next Monday’s provincial final and they will be eyeing up a place in Saturday week’s All-Ireland semi-final against Dublin.
Second-half goals from Cian Mulligan, Michael Carroll and Caolan McGonagle sealed victory for Declan Bonner’s side, who had been in front 0-13 to 0-6 at the interval.
Donegal’s shooting was excellent with freetakers Lorcan Connor and Michael Langan hitting 0-6 and 0-3 respectively, while there was a tally of 0-4 for Stephen McBrearty, the brother of senior forward Patrick.
Donegal were dominant in the early exchanges as they went in front 0-9 to 0-3 at the close of the first quarter. They stretched that lead to 0-13 to 0-4 by the 26th minute when Lorcan Connor raised a white flag but Cavan finished the half with scores from Bryan Magee and their top scorer Caoimhin Reilly.
But Mulligan struck for Donegal’s first goal straight after half-time and then a 44th minute goal from Carroll killed off the Cavan challenge.
McGonigle notched the third goal in the 58th minute to round off an excellent night’s work from Donegal.
Donegal
Danny Rodgers
Conor Morrison
Stephen McMenamin
Brendan McCole
Cian Mulligan
Dáire O Baoill
Eoghan Ban Gallagher
Jason McGee
Tony McClenaghan
Christy McLaughlin
StephenMcBrearty
Michael Carroll
Lorcan Connor
Michael Langan
Jamie Brennan
Cavan
Liam Brady
Micheal Smart
Donal Monahan
Luke Fortune
Sean O’Connor
Eoin Sommerville
Patrick O’Reilly
Thomas Galligan
Cormac Daly
Pierce Smith
Conor Bradley
Matthew McKenna
Caoimhin Reilly
Bryan Magee
Ryan Connolly
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No better man to be leading Leinster into battle.
@Trevor Dunne: agree 100% , and to think it was him who convinced Joe Schmidt to look at coming to Leinster
@Limón Madrugada: I think he first convinced Leinster that he was the best coach and then convinced him to come (with a couple of mates). All his contributions to Leinster, because of 2 minutes of rugby. Thank you Fiji!
@Trevor Dunne: I really hope he sticks around on the coaching staff when the finishes playing, he’s such a brilliant asset to have