Waterford 3
St Patrick’s Athletic 1
Adrian Flanagan reports from the RSC
A BRACE from Padraig Amond and a brilliant solo effort from Maleace Asamoah saw Waterford record their first home win of the season as St Patrick’s Athletic suffered their third consecutive league defeat.
Early on, Blues goalkeeper Sam Sargeant made a fine save to deny an angled effort from the right by Ruairi Keating.
Moments later, Marcelo Pitaluga tipped a stinging effort from Maleace Asamoah over the bar, before the hosts went in front on seven minutes.
Barry Baggley played a short corner to Asamoah, whose cross took a huge deflection that saw the ball loop up in the air, and it was Amond who reacted quickest to beat Pitaluga with a fine header.
Amond had chances to increase the lead for the hosts — he was gifted an opportunity by Liverpool loanee Pitaluga, but couldn’t convert and the Saints were level 60 seconds later.
Brandon Kavanagh whipped in a right-wing cross that saw Sargeant fail to clear his lines and the ball broke to Anto Breslin, who was in the right place to stab home from close range.
However, the hosts re-took the lead shortly before half-time. Ryan Burke sent in a left-wing shot that saw Pitaluga and Conor Keeley get in the way of each other, and when the ball broke to Amond, he was on hand to score his fourth goal in three games from six yards.
Asamoah grabbed his second of the season on 70 minutes when the winger dispossessed Kieran Freeman on the halfway line.
The Fleetwood loanee then raced at the Pat’s defence down the wing before powering a left-footed shot past Pitaluga from 14 yards.
Waterford FC: Sargeant; Power, Radkowski, Horton, Leahy, Burke; McDonald, Baggley, Asamoah (Macadam ’78); Amond, Parsons.
St. Patrick’s Athletic: Pitaluga; Breslin, McLaughlin (Freeman ’10) (Nolan ’84), Keeley (Leavy ’63), Redmond; Forrester (C. Kavanagh ’84), B. Kavanagh (Melia ’63), McClelland, Lennon; Keating, Turner.
Referee: Kevin O’Sullivan (Cork).
Attendance: 3076
Great win. Next time we’ll win the series :)
Excellent win 3 valuable points. The main thing is qualifying.
Nothing better than beating the Tans (including those that took the soup) at their own game.
@Daithi O’Liverpool FC:
Am I the only person who has no idea what that post means
@Mark Smith: yeah it is. But we can’t help a person who is a victim of their own ignorance: Belittles a sport they know nothing about, and the same one that was reason the GAA started in the first place – a sport that doesn’t leave our shores!
Ireland bagged 10 WORLD Cup qualify points yesterday. Regardless of the series lost. With 30 up for grabs – we got 10 and took 10 away from England. Note 10/11 players yesterday are born and bread on the island.
But don’t let the irony of that be lost on a person who also supports an English soccer club that plays an equally English sport.
And as for South African province of munster…it’s clear he’s not worth the time of day
@Fuinneóig Ó’Fuigeann:
Glad you cleared it up
I hope you know what you mean because I sure as hell don’t
2 irish centuries!
@Côte D’oherty: 3 of you include Morgan