Penalty heartbreak ends Avenue’s FAI Junior Cup dream in Galway
Photograph: Natasha Barton Avenue United’s dream of FAI Junior Cup success this season ended this Saturday afternoon when they bowed out after a penalty shootout.
Photograph: Natasha Barton Avenue United’s dream of FAI Junior Cup success this season ended this Saturday afternoon when they bowed out after a penalty shootout.
*Newmarket Celtic captain Eoin Hayes and manager Paddy Purcell. Photograph: Natasha Barton NEWMARKET CELTIC AND AVENUE UTD will be both on the road again for their next outing in the FAI Junior Cup.
*Ronan Kerin scored twice for Avenue Utd. Photograph: Natasha Barton CLARE’S REPRESENTATIVES in the FAI Junior Cup have marched forward into the last 32 of the competition.
AVENUE UTD have received a major boost ahead of Saturday’s Cup final with the return of striker Ronan Kerin.
It was a great weekend for Clare soccer as two of the league’s premier sides advanced to round 4 of the FAI Junior cup when recording impressive away victories.
*Lifford’s Jean Ganda in action against Shannon Hibb’s Mickey Wall, Photograph: Natasha Barton Soccer fixtures were disrupted last weekend as all pitches in Shannon were waterlogged and thus unplayable which led to the cancellation of the games set for those venues.
There were a number of impressive performances by Clare sides as the race for the FAI Junior Cup got underway at the weekend.
*Ronan Kerin tries to control the ball as Evan Kelly ducks for cover. Photograph: Natasha Barton Avenue Utd made an impression while laying down a marker when commencing their bid for honours in the Maloney Garden Machinery Premier Division.
*2018/19 Premier League Champions, Newmarket Celtic. Photograph: Oliver Fitzpatrick It’s hours until the start of the Maloney Garden Machinery Premier Division signalling the start of the season in Clare junior soccer with action also getting underway in the first, second and third divisions.