Friendly

Ferrycarrig
28 Feb 2015

Bray Wanderers suffered their first defeat in the pre-season friendly programme when hosts Wexford Youths struck twice inside the final ten minutes.

The game had gone ahead in Ferrycarrig despite what amounted to storm conditions, but after having been deferred to 5pm to accommodate a Youths U18 cup fixture.

Youths opened the scoring early in the first half, when Conor English was put through by new signing Jonny Bonner and curled the ball to the top of Brian Kane's net.

Kane did well to deny Bonner five minutes later, and the Seagulls drew level two minutes after that when former Pats U19 striker Peter Durrad burst through the Wexford defence, beating Stephen Last and keeper Graham Doyle to the long ball.

Midway through the half, Chris Lyons brought his pre-season total to three goals in five matches when a defensive mix up handed him the simple task of tapping in.

The visitors held that head to half time, and well into the second half, though it took a good late challenge from Hugh Douglas to deprive English of a chance to double his tally on the hour, after good work by Youths subs Jimmy Dermody and Andy Mulligan.

But with just ten minutes to go, Bonner was rashly taken down and a spot-kick was awarded, Eric Molloy finding no difficulty in putting it away hard and low to Stephen McGuinness's left.

And in the final minute of normal time, English finally made his personal tally two when he completed the delivery from a free.

Bray Wanderers: 1 Brian Kane; 12 Niall Cooney, 6 Adam Mitchell, 5 Alan McNally, 3 Jack Memery; 19 Emeka Onwubiko, 10 Ryan McEvoy, 14 Luke Gallagher, 22 James O'Donnell; 18 Chris Lyons, 17 Peter Durrad
Subs: 4 Daniel O'Reilly (for O'Donnell 30), 20 Hugh Douglas (for ?Cooney), 32 Stephen McGuinness (for Kane H/T)
Wexford Youths: Graham Doyle; Conor Whittle, Stephen Last, Lee Grace, Craig Comerford; Peter Higgins, Craig Wall, Jonny Bonner; Aidan Keenan, Philip Drohan, Conor English
Subs: Andy Mulligan (for Drohan H/T), Eric Molloy (for Comerford H/T), Craig McCabe (for Last H/T), Andrew Wall (for Grace H/T), Jimmy Dermody (for Keenan H/T), Gary Delaney, Seamus Houghton (for Doyle 71)