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2022 Allianz Football League Division 4 – Tipperary 4-4 Wexford 0-15
Tipperary defeated Wexford by 4-4 to 0-15 in Round 3 of the Allianz Football League Division 4 on Sunday March 6th at Chadwicks Wexford Park.
Tipperary footballers ride their luck to emerge from Wexford with valuable league win
Report by Jeddy Walsh for Tipperarylive.ie
ALLIANZ NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE DIVISION 4
WEXFORD 0-15 TIPPERARY 4-4
Tipperary picked up their second win in successive weekends in Division 4 of the Allianz National Football League with a victory over Wexford at Chadwicks Wexford Park this afternoon.
It was an indifferent performance from Tipperary, Wexford the stronger looking team for most of the afternoon, but to their credit Tipperary took the fewer opportunities that came their way and somehow came away with the spoils and the two precious league points.
The statistics over the 70 minutes won’t look favourably on David Power’s side but the only thing that ever matters at the end of any game is the scoreboard. While Wexford scored 15 times to Tipp’s eight, the old cliche of goals win games rang through, Tipp raised four green flags from four attempts, Wexford were woefully wasteful with the many opportunities that came their way.
It was as strange a football game as one would ever witness, there wasn’t too much pretty stuff to write home about.
Jack Kennedy kicked two hugely important points from play for Tipperary in today’s win over Wexford.
Tipp had three goals inside the first 20 minutes – one from Conor Sweeney and two from Teddy Doyle at which stage they led 3-1 to 0-7; however Tipp wouldn’t score for the remainder of the half. Their solitary first half point coming from the hard-working Conal Kennedy.
Conor Sweeney’s sixth minute goal was fisted in after Robbie Kiely delivered a precision ball from the wing. Three minutes later Teddy Doyle was involved in the build up and execution of second goal, after Conor Sweeney’s initial effort came back off the crossbar, the Ballina clubman fisted home past Darragh Brooks. The third goal, again scored by Doyle, was a disaster from a Wexford perspective. An effort by Sean O’Connor was floating down aimlessly from the sky when the Wexford goalkeeper decided to punch the ball away rather than gather, Doyle collected that poor efford and buried the chance.
By the interval Wexford, with the breeze behind them, had edged back in front by 0-11 to 3-1 but in the added time at the end of the first half they lost a man when Paraic Hughes was dismissed for striking an opponent in the stomach right in front of the referee.
Inside 90 seconds of the restart Tipperary had their fourth goal scored by Mikey O’Shea after good work in the build-up from Conor Sweeney and Mark Russell, the young Mullinahone player making sure at the second attempt.
Incredibly in the remaining 38 minutes of actual play, all Tipperary could manage were three further points, two from play from Jack Kennedy and a Conor Sweeney free.
They didn’t help themselves though. Just seven minutes after the restart the advantage of the extra man was lost when Teddy Doyle, arguably their best player up to then, was dismissed for a second yellow. Five minutes later Mark Russell was black carded and now Tipperary were the disadvantaged team for 10 minutes until Stephen Quirke came on to replace Russell.
That Wexford will be kicking themselves with this result is an understatement. Despite all the possession, including at least four decent goal chances, they had 28 shots at the goalposts during the course of the game compared to 13 for Tipperary. Too often they went for the one pass too many with Tipperary on the rack, and Tipp were more than relieved to get away with the two points.
It puts today’s victors back with a decent chance of promotion which looked very unlikely a few weeks back, but that will all hinge on next Sunday’s showing in Breffni Park. There will have to be a huge improvement on today’s display to contemplate such a victory against Cavan. But, again with another sporting cliche, if you can win when not playing well, it’s always a good sign. David Power has had teams in this position before and pulled off the surprise; they will have to do so again next Sunday.
TIPPERARY: Michael O’Reilly (Clonmel Commercials), Shane O’Connell (Golden Kilfeacle), Jimmy Feehan (Killenaule), Jack Harney (Moyle Rovers), Kevin Fahey (Clonmel Commercials), Sean O’Connell (Loughmore Castleiney), Robbie Kiely (Barryroe, Cork), Conal Kennedy (Clonmel Commercials, 0-1), Mark Russell (Aherlow), Bill Maher (Kilsheelan Kilcash), Jack Kennedy (Clonmel Commercials), Teddy Doyle (Ballina, 2-0), Mikey O’Shea (CJ Kickhams Mullinahone, 1-0), Conor Sweeney (capt., Ballyporeen 1-1, 0-1F), Sean O’Connor (Clonmel Commercials).
Subs: Martin Kehoe (CJ Kickhams Mullinahone) for Sean O’Connell (20 mins); Cathal Deely (Clonmel Commercials) for O’Connor (50); Stephe Quirk (Moyle Rovers) for Russell (60); Tommy Maher (Loughmore/Castleiney) for Fahey (62); Eanna McBride (JK Brackens) for J. Kennedy (70+1).
WEXFORD: Darragh Brooks (0-1×45), Liam O’Connor, Eoin Porter, Martin O’Connor (capt), Dylan Furlong, Naomhan Rossiter, Glen Malone (0-1), Niall Hughes, Liam Coleman, Paraic Hughes (0-1), Dean O’Toole (0-1), Kevin O’Grady (0-4, 0-1F), John Tubritt (0-1), Alan Tobin, Mark Rossiter (0-5, 0-4F).
Subs: Sean Ryan for Tubritt (53); Conor Carty for N. Rossiter (60); Donal Shanley (0-1) for O’Toole (60); Ben Brosnan for M. Rossiter (70); Eoghan Nolan for O’Grady (70+5).
Referee: John Hickey (Carlow).
Fixture Details
06.03.2022 (Sun)
Allianz Football League Roinn 4 Round 3
Chadwicks Wexford Park, Wexford 14:00
Loch Garman v Tiobraid Árann
Referee: John Hickey (Ceatharlach)
Team News
— Tipperary GAA (@TipperaryGAA) March 4, 2022
Here's the Wexford senior football team, proudly supported by @Zurich_Irl, to play Tipperary in the league in @ChadwicksIE Wexford Park on Sunday. Tickets through https://t.co/a0tlNVGl9f and the usual SuperValu and Centra stores. pic.twitter.com/lRwGgoFbyf
— Wexford GAA (@OfficialWexGAA) March 4, 2022
