FINN HARPS ARE hosting FAI Intermediate Cup winners Crumlin United at Finn Park in their opening FAI Senior Cup game of the year.
FULL TIME: Harps 0 Crumlin 1
Four minutes of added time…
77 mins: Harps have thrown on McHugh, Scully and McNamee in a bid to rescue this.
73 mins: Moorhouse goes close to the second, but his shot from the left-hand side comes off the base of the post.
71 mins: Mailey, again, leaps to meet a corner but Supple, again, makes a great save to keep Crumlin in front.
64 mins: Barry Molloy is given his second yellow card in three minutes. RED CARD for the midfielder…
62 mins: Crumlin go close as Luke Kelly’s effort deflects off Barry Molloy and wide, with Brush beaten before McGreal shoots at Brush.
49 mins: GOAL. Gregory Moorhouse fires in from close range after Brush fails to hold a low shot from Dean Hurley. Harps 0 Crumlin 1
HALF-TIME: Harps 0 Crumlin 0
There’ll be two minutes of added time at the end of the first half.
41 mins: Liam Flatley whizzes in a free kick and Supple gets the tips of his fingers to it, diverting it over the top. Harps 0 Crumlin 0
“Anyone leaving the ground at half-time, please leave your tickets with someone.” And we’re having two half-time draws. TWO. Absolute scenes in Ballybofey.
39 mins: Not much to report here…Nothing. Nowt. Zero.
28 mins: Packie Mailey – who scored the last time Harps beat Crumlin in the FAI Cup (2010) – forces Shane Supple into a fantastic full-length save as he gets a head to Liam Flatley’s corner.
19 mins: Chance for Harps as Liam Flatley exploits the space, but his shot deflects wide off Noel Murray. Still scoreless.
12 mins: Real let-off for Harps as McGreal steers wide from close range after Moorhouse elects to centre.
10 mins: Gregory Moorhouse – the hat-trick hero for Crumlin last week – flicks a header goalward from McGreal’s free, but it’s into the arms of Richard Brush. Harps 0 Crumlin 0
There’s hardly likely to be a rush after the FA Cup final to boost the attendance, which is barely 300, many of whom are children. One of those has a horrendously-annoying foghorn…
2 mins: Coll gets back to head away from beneath his own cross bar as Noel Murray connects to Alan McGreal’s cross. The follow-up by James Lee is wide of the mark
1 min: Harps break from kick-off and Ciaran Coll’s cross is headed wide by Ryan Curran.
0 min: We’ve kicked off at Finn Park
[adrotate group=”50″]Easily the lowest crowd of the season in Ballybofey tonight. It wouldn’t be right to say that there’s only one man and his dog here. The dog has reportedly stayed in Barca Bar to watch the closing stages of the FA Cup final…
…last head count was around 150.
Richard Brush, Liam Flatley and Gareth Harkin come into the Harps line-up in three changes made by Ollie Horgan, who has seen his team ship 13 goals in their last three outings.
[adrotate group=”47″]Finn Harps: Richard Brush; Ethan Boyle, Packie Mailey, Damien McNulty, Ciaran Coll; Liam Flatley, Barry Molloy, Sean Houston, Gareth Harkin; Adam Hanlon, Ryan Curran.
Crumlin are also showing three changes from last Saturday’s 5-0 win over Letterkenny Rovers in last Saturday’s FAI Intermediate Cup at the Aviva Stadium.
Crumlin United: Shane Supple; Jonathan Meleady, Noel Murray, Patrick Brophy, Daniel McGuinness; Carl Forsyth, Luke Kelly, James Lee, Alan McGreal; Gregory Moorhouse, Dean Hurley.
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