Harps hit for six by Waterford

It was one other dangerous day on the workplace for Finn Harps as they suffered one other heavy away defeat in Waterford.

Waterford FC…6 Finn Harps…1

Having suffered a heavy defeat on Waterford supervisor Keith Lengthy’s debut recreation earlier within the season, Harps have been hoping it may need been newbie’s luck.

Harps introduced Ellis Farrar and Micheal Harris into their beginning line-up from final week’s defeat by Wexford Youths in a bid to freshen issues up.

And Harris nearly received them off to a flying begin, forcing a great save from Paul Martin in simply the second minute.
However that’s the place Harps’ luck left them as only a minute later Harps have been behind.

Conor Parsons picked up the ball in midfield, drove ahead and beat Tim Heimer with an excellent curling shot for a brilliant opening objective.

It nearly received worse for Harps a minute later, as solely a brilliant save by Heimer denied Roland Idowu a second Waterford objective whereas 5 minutes later the Harps keeper denied Ryan Burke nice strike.

Within the sixteenth minute Heimer was at it once more , this time denying Ronan Coughlan with one other excellent save to maintain Harps within the recreation in these tough early phases.

But it surely couldn’t final and two targets in three minutes put the house aspect in complete management and the sport trying as if would possibly go the identical means it did when the groups met the final time at this venue with Waterford hitting Dave Rogers’ for seven.

It was 2-0 within the 21th minute , Conor Parsons tapping in Barry Baggley’s nook for his second , and 3-0 three minutes later , as Parsons turning supplier , his by means of ball discovered Ronan Coughlan and the United high scorer transformed his twenty sixth objective of the season and also you had too assume it was recreation over.

Nevertheless Harps received a lifeline within the thirty first minute after they have been awarded a penalty and Captain for the evening Ryan Flood transformed , 3-1.

Waterford responded with two fast assaults , each of which nearly produced a objective and each concerned Roland Idowu , firstly hitting the publish after which forcing a wonderful goal-line headed clearance from Daithi McCallion.

The house aspect saved the stress up till half-time nevertheless it remained 3-1 on the break and a a lot improved efficiency wanted if Harps are to get again within the recreation.

It was Wasterford keeper Paul Martin who was referred to as into swift motion 5 minutes into the second-half , producing a brilliant save save to disclaim a Ryan Flood particular , the keeper simply in a position to contact the piledriver onto his crossbar.

After this let-off Waterford upped the ante once more and within the 57th minute that man Ronan Coughlan made it 4-1 along with his second objective, firing low previous Heimer into the underside nook.

Issues settled down when it comes to objective probabilities till the 77th minute when Waterford added their fifth objective. Once more Tim Heimer made an preliminary nice save from Coughlan’s free-kick however was helpless as substitute Eddie Nolan adopted as much as slot residence to make it 5-1.
The house crew made a triple substitution within the 82nd minute and a type of Thomas Oluma produced a brilliant run down the left-side earlier than organising Roland Idowu for objective quantity six for Waterford.

It completed 6-1 to the house aspect , one other heavy defeat for Finn Harps and Staff Supervisor Dave Rodgers might be eager to get all his current signings concerned within the match-day motion within the two residence video games to return towards Bray Wanderers and Cobh Ramblers .

Waterford Utd FC: Paul Martin, Ryan Burke ( Ronan Mansfield 82mins), , Giles Phillips ( Eddie Nolan 64mins) Roland Idowu , Barry Baggley, Shane Griffin ( Dean Larkin 73mins), , Niall O’Keeffe, Conor Parsons , Ronan Coughlan ( Thomas Oluma 82mins ), Romeo Akacukwu , Killian Cantwill ( Adam Queally 82mins)

Finn Harps: Tim Heimer , Caoimhin Porter, Noe Baba, Ellis Farrar ( Sean O Kane 80mins), Shane McMonagle ( Kevin Jordan 52mins), Daithi McCallion, Damian Duffy ( Aaron McLaughlin 52mins), Ryan Flood ,Sean O’Donnell, Filip Da Silva ( Max Johnston 62mins), Michael Harris ( Katlego Mashigo 52mins),

Harps hit for six by Waterford was final modified: June thirtieth, 2023 by Employees Author