Mill Celtic 4

Crettyard United 1

Mill Celtic continued their winning start to the season with an impressive victory over Crettyard in Ballitore on Sunday.

The Kildare side started the strongest and their dominance was rewarded when Alan Norton clipped a through ball for Eoin O' Neill to cut inside and blast into the top corner on eight minutes. The home side pushed on after this and their lead was doubled five minutes later when Korey Maher pounced from eight yards after a James Fahey corner. Mill were dominating proceeding and got their third goal ten minutes before half time when Eoin O’Neill swung in a deep cross for Shane Molloy to head home at the back post.

Crettyard started the second half the stronger and put the home side under severe pressure with goalkeeper Adam Meenehan forced into a string of impressive saves during a five-minute flurry. They got the goal that their play deserved after 65 minutes when a back-post header beat Meenehan to reduce the deficit to two. The visitors thought they scored again when a long distance piledriver bounced down on the goal line and away to safety. Mill regained the ascendancy after this and substitute Euan Cullen was desperately unlucky to see his long-distance effort drift wide and a left footed piledriver hit the crossbar within a matter of minutes. The icing on the cake arrived in the first minute of stoppage time when O’Neill was fouled in the box which allowed Brian Mackey to slot home from the spot and seal the three points.

Best for Mill were Eoin O’Neill, Korey Maher, and Shane Molloy.