First Division

Eamonn Deasy Park
19 Aug 2022

Those of a superstitious disposition might have been forgiven for reading portents into Stephen McGuinness's dramatic save of a fourth minute penalty tonight, and the Seagulls almost immediately capitalised on it.

Following a Dean Zambra free played short to Jack Hudson and reaching him via captain Hugh Douglas, Ben Feeney fired low past the advacning Conor Kearns.

And it got better. Just short of the half hour, Colin Kelly got between defenders to shoot cleanly to the Gaway net.

But with three half-time substitutions, galway showed considerably more purpose during the second half, though it wasn't until Mikie Rowe and Ronan Manning came on with twenty minutes to go that their play became incisive.

Nevertheless, they were still failing to breach the Bray defence, until - down to ten men - Bray conceded another spot-kick that the home side managed to score a consolation goal in time added.

Full report to follow

Bray Wanderers: 1 Stephen McGuinness; 7 Keith Dalton, 12 Jack Hudson, 5 Hugh Douglas (c); 6 Conor Clifford; 3 Kevin Knight, 26 Ben Feeney , 27 Dean Zambra, 11 Paul Fox; 37 Colin Kelly , 38 Jamie Hollywood
Subs: 4 Zach Donoghue (for Kelly 80) , 10 Kieran Marty Waters, 16 Callum Thompson, 18 Zak O'Neill (for Dalton 89), 21 Conor Knight, 23 Conor McManus (for Hollywood 91), 24 Darragh Lynch (for Fox 89), 35 Ben Clark (gk), 32 Ugo Anny-Nzekwue
Galway United: 1 Conor Kearns; 12 James Finnerty, 21 Oisin O'Reilly, 4 Charlie Lyons, 3 Stephen Walsh; 10 David Hurley, 24 Ed McCarthy, 17 Bastien Hery, 27 Max Hemmings ; 19 Francely Lomboto, 28 Rob Manley
Subs: 6 Diego Portilla, 8 Mikie Rowe, 9 Manu Dimas (for Hery H/T), 14 Ronan Manning , 15 David Tarmey (for Lomboto H/T), 16 Matthew Connor (gk), 18 Wilson Waweru, 20 Evan O'Connor, 29 Adam Thomas (for Manley H/T)
Referee: Kevin O'Sullivan