Galway United 2
Longford Town 2
JOSH O’HANLON STARRED for Longford Town, as Galway United let a 2-0 lead slip for the second time in two home games at Eamonn Deacy Park.
Tommy Dunne’s men looked set to pile on the misery for the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division basement side when they led 2-0 at half-time.
Vinny Faherty got his eighth of the season and Enda Curran put Galway comfortably in front, but O’Hanlon — who is on loan at the club from Premier League side Bournemouth — got one back for Longford and then he forced a dramatic own-goal off Galway goalkeeper Conor Winn.
Faherty scored inside two minutes, he latched onto a through ball from Curran and with Paul Skinner rushing out of his goal, he lobbed the Longford goalkeeper.
Galway got their second in the 31st minute when Longford’s dreadful defending was punished by Curran. Ryan Connolly swung in the corner, the ball bounced in the box and Curran slotted home with ease.
Longford were poor at the back in the first half, but the roles were reversed in the second period, as Longford tied it up 14 minutes in, with O’Hanlon playing a huge part in both goals.
He scored the first when he latched onto the ball to head home ahead of Winn on the hour. And another defensive error presented O’Hanlon with a gift, he drove it towards goal and when it re-bounded off the post, Winn couldn’t prevent it bouncing off him and into his net.
Galway pushed for the winner late on. Ruairi Keating had a couple of chances, and in the final minute, he drove a shot at goal, but Conor Powell somehow cleared it off the line.
Galway United: Conor Winn; Colm Horgan, Paul Sinnott, Killian Cantwell, Stephen Walsh; Gary Shanahan, John Sullivan, Ryan Connolly, Marc Ludden; Vinny Faherty, Enda Curran (Padraic Cunningham, 65) (Ruairi Keating, 69).
Longford Town: Paul Skinner; Conor Powell, Mark Rossiter, Pat Flynn, Noel Haverty (James Mulhall, 75); Dom Cowan (Kaleem Simon, 45), Philip Gannon, Kevin O’Connor, Mark Hughes (Kealon Dillon, 66), David O’Sullivan; Josh O’Hanlon.
Referee: Paul McLaughlin (Donegal).
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Dead right. hopefully a win today now to give him and the players a little boost.
Looking forward to seeing what he does with the team over the next few transfer windows. It’s obvious he takes no sh!t from anyone, players or owners. Hoping he gets rid of the rot in the club asap.
He’ll need about €350 million if he gets rid of all the rot in that squad
The owners gave so much to Rodgers and his transfer committee, and they squandered the lot, apart from a handful of players who have either made a positive impact or look like they have a bit of potential. Can’t see why Klopp won’t be given the same financial support. If he’s allowed buy the players he wants, that will buy into his philosophy, I can see Liverpool improving vastly. First thing though is to sell those who either won’t or can’t play his kind of football.
Considering the players he lost Rodgers was given peanuts. He was only given 17 milion on top of what they got for Suarez after he left. You can’t compete for the league I’d your net spend is just 17 million.
@Ron, he still nearly spent £300 million over three years. Three years with not one trophy to show for it all. Rodgers came out and said that Spurs should be challenging for the title after spending £100 million. Most of that £100 million came from the sale of Bale. I’m a Liverpool fan like yourself, but that is embarrassing.
philosophy score more than the opposition.
ah come on ron stop that oul guff he spent a couple of hundred million.
Cutting the waste is more important than bringing in new players right now. Liverpool will go backwards before going forward.
I have to admit I like this bainisteoirs philosophy and the sort of staccato German-English soundbites are altogether more succinct than the usual waffle
First job is to buy a brand new back 4 and goalie
@Beano I don’t think Mignolet has been that bad lately. His distribution is poor but he’s made a few quality saves. Back four is the problem. A centre back should be his first purchase.
He will need time and can’t be judged until we see what moves are made in and out of the club in the transfer market. Problem is there are a lot of average players there now and to get the quality needed to attract better players champions league football is needed. So then he could be relying on the current squad to get into the top four or three as it might be. Some of Rodgers players like firminho, origi, lallana etc. etc needed to deliver something and really he needs to pray that sturridge gets fit again otherwise he is a luxury that the club can’t afford.
I actually think that Sturridge won’t be able to cope with Klopp’s demands. He’s made out of glass, every time he comes back from an injury, he immediately is ruled out again. I’m beginning to wonder if he’ll be able to keep up the tempo and the pressure. Hope he proves me wrong but if he can’t, I don’t think Klopp will stick with him.
It’s clear looking at that Liverpool squad how bad it is. Much work for Jurgen to do
thats Baloteli gone for good so