Millstreet Junior Footballers were beaten by Dromtarriffe in the Duhallow Junior A Football Championship tonight in Cullen. Drom’ will hardly ever have a better scoring day, as nearly everything they kicked went over the bar, while most of the Millstreet Kicks ended up either wide or in the goalies arms, in what was a very frustrating evening of football for the Millstreet supporters.
Tadgh Collins got Millstreet off to a great start with a goal in the first few minutes, but Dromtarriffe came back and scored four points to level things up at 1-1 to four points, before a the Dromtarriffe goalie dropped a high ball and left the Millstreet forward with an easy tap in for their second goal. But Drom went quickly up the pitch and got a spare man inside to tuck away a goal. Millstreet tagged on another point before the half, to lead by 2-2 to 1-4 at the break.
At half time the wind direction changed from being across the pitch to being nearly straight down the pitch towards the village, in the favour of Dromtarriffe. They used it well in the second half, playing long accurate balls to their forwards who seemed to score every time they touched the ball from all sorts of angles.
Millstreet never got to grips with the breaking ball in the middle of the field, and once again did not seem to be able for battling in the tight. That breaking ball was the platform that Dromtarriffe used to put over point after point and ultimately kill the match. Millstreet seemed to give the ball away all too easily once they got up the pitch, and their attacks were slow which allowed the Dromtarriffe backs to organised and stop any danger.
To their credit, Millstreet battled away and missed 3-4 goal chances in the last few minutes, hitting the post twice, but it was all too late at that stage as the game finished up with a scoreline of 2-14 to 2-5.
