Killymoon crashed out of the Irish Cup to Islandmagee on Saturday, but despite the scoreline the team gave their Amateur League opponents a tough game. Missing 8 players this was always going to be an uphill battle for the Cookstown side and the number of changes badly affected them in the early stages of the match with the team looking very disjointed. However, Killymoon had an excellent chance in the first couple of minutes when Francisco Gomes found himself one on one with the keeper, but his attempt to curl the ball into the top corner was denied by a finger tip save by the home keeper. Islandmagee opened the scoring in the 20 minute when one of their front men was given time to turn 8 yards from goal and gave Steven McKernan no chance in the Killymoon goal. Cameron Stewart nearly equalised shorthly after but again the Islandmagee keeper pulled off a tremendous save and within a few minutes the home side doubled their lead to go into the interval 2 goals ahead. |