| Competition: League of Ireland First Division Venue: Fahy's Field Attendance: 201 Referee: Phil Caschera | ||
 Mervue United Pat Hoban - Penalty (19') Pat Hoban - Goal (25') Etanda Nkololo - Goal (41') Jason Molloy - Yellow Card (57') Tom King - Goal (65') Pat Hoban - Red Card (67') Pat Hoban - Yellow Card (67') Tom King - Red Card (74') Martin Conneely - Yellow Card (90' + 2') |
Fri 29 Jun 20124 - 5(Full Time) |
 Longford Town Chris Deans - Yellow Card (20') William McDonagh - Yellow Card (40') William McDonagh - Goal (54') Alan Murphy - Own Goal (57') Alan Kirby - Goal (71') Gary Shaw - Goal (90') Mark Salmon - Penalty (90' + 3') Colm James - Yellow Card (90' + 3') |
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Game Matchtracker
Mervue United 4 - 5 Longford Town 90' + 3' - Penalty - Mark Salmon scores for Longford Town from the penalty spot. 
Mervue United 4 - 4 Longford Town 90' + 3' - Yellow Card - Colm James is booked for Longford Town.
Mervue United 4 - 4 Longford Town 90' + 2' - Yellow Card - Martin Conneely is booked for Mervue United. 
Mervue United 4 - 4 Longford Town 90' - Goal - Gary Shaw heads home a late leveller for Longford from another Alan Kirby free-kick
Mervue United 4 - 3 Longford Town
87' - Another corner to Longford as they are pushing hard for the leveller but Colm James shoots high and over.
Mervue United 4 - 3 Longford Town
86' - Another corner to Longford and Alan Kirby shoots wide
Mervue United 4 - 3 Longford Town
84' - Longford piling on the pressure for an equaliser here with corner after corner but Mervue defend in numbers 
Mervue United 4 - 3 Longford Town 83' - Substitution - Longford Sub - Tony Griffiths replaces Noel Haverty for the last seven minutes.
Mervue United 4 - 3 Longford Town
80' - We have had everthing here and it's hard to keep up with all thats happening in this game but Mervue are fuming as both Hoban and King have seen red for not much.
Mervue United 4 - 3 Longford Town 76' - Substitution - Mervue Sub - Stephen Walsh replaces Shane Keogh. 
Mervue United 4 - 3 Longford Town 74' - Red Card - Tom King is sent off for Mervue United for something he said to the ref and he receives a straight red as Mervue are reduced to nine men.
Mervue United 4 - 3 Longford Town 71' - Goal - Longford sub Alan Kirby makes it 4-3 as he scores from close range following a Gary Shaw pass. 
Mervue United 4 - 2 Longford Town 67' - Second Yellow and Red - Pat Hoban receives a second yellow card and is sent off for Mervue United. The striker received a booking for mouthing and then continued his verbals to receive a second yellow from Phil Caschera and is sent to the line.
Mervue United 4 - 2 Longford Town 65' - Goal - Tom King scores for Mervue United.
Mervue United 3 - 2 Longford Town 61' - Substitution - Mervue Sub - Jason Molloy has gone off injured to be replaced by a former Longford player as winger Tom King enters the fray.
Mervue United 3 - 2 Longford Town 58' - Substitution - Mervue Sub - Alan Murphy has retired to be replaced by Gary Kelly.
Mervue United 3 - 2 Longford Town 57' - Yellow Card - Jason Molloy is booked for Mervue United. 
Mervue United 3 - 2 Longford Town 57' - Own Goal - Alan Murphy has put the ball in his own net after Marc Ludden left his back pass short and Mike Lee nipped in to cross which flew off Murphy and past Conor O'Malley. Game on here.
Mervue United 3 - 1 Longford Town 54' - Goal - William McDonagh scores for Longford Town as he heads home an Alan Kirby free-kick into the box.
Mervue United 3 - 0 Longford Town 46' - Substitution - Longford Sub - Alan Kirby has replaced Keith Gillespie for the second half. 
Mervue United 3 - 0 Longford Town 46' - Second Half - Second half back on here at Fahy's Field. 
Mervue United 3 - 0 Longford Town 45' + 2' - Half Time - Half time here and the league leaders are in shock here as Mervue have raced into a 3-0 lead at the break.
Mervue United 3 - 0 Longford Town
43' - Mervue's Conor O'Malley makes an excellent stop at his near post from Colm James to keep the score at 3-0 to the home side.
Mervue United 3 - 0 Longford Town 41' - Goal - Etanda Nkololo mades it three nil here as he blasts a ball past Longford's Craig Hyland after running onto a through ball.
Mervue United 2 - 0 Longford Town 40' - Yellow Card - William McDonagh is booked for Longford Town for a foul on Etanda Nkololo.
Mervue United 2 - 0 Longford Town
36' - Pat Hoban's two goals tonight have taken him past Mervue's record LOI scorer, Rory Gaffney, as he moves onto 16.
Mervue United 2 - 0 Longford Town
35' - Longford trying to get back into this game as they put pressure on the home defence but have yet to test Conor O'Malley since going two down.
Mervue United 2 - 0 Longford Town 25' - Goal - Pat Hoban doubles the home sides lead as he has a simple tap in from close range as Craig Hyland can only parry Alan Murphy's on target shot.
Mervue United 2 - 0 Longford Town 22' - Substitution - Longford Sub - Des Hope has had to be replaced after conceding the penalty as he injured himself in the challenge and has been replaced by new signing William McDonagh.
Mervue United 2 - 0 Longford Town 20' - Yellow Card - Longford's Chris Deans was booked for disputing the penalty award.
Mervue United 1 - 0 Longford Town
20' - Mervue's Pat Hoban outpaces the two Longford centre backs as he races onto a ball through the middle and as he is about to shoot is taken down by Des Hope and the assistant awards the penalty.
Mervue United 1 - 0 Longford Town 19' - Penalty - Pat Hoban scores for Mervue United from the penalty spot.
Mervue United 0 - 0 Longford Town
12' - Young Mervue keeper Conor O'Malley saves a well struck Thomas Crawley effort as Longford begin to exert a bit of pressure.
Mervue United 0 - 0 Longford Town
2' - Early Mervue Utd pressure sees Craig Hyland save well with his feet at his near post from Jason Molloy.
Mervue United 0 - 0 Longford Town 1' - Kick-off - We are under way here at Fahy's Field for Mervue Utd v Longford town
Mervue United 0 - 0 Longford Town
0' - Awaiting teams here on a dry cloudy night here at the east Galway City venue
Mervue United 0 - 0 Longford Town
0' - Longford include new signings former Monaghan Utd players Tony Griffiths and William McDonagh on the bench. Mervue name new signing former Longford player Jean Biansumba on their bench.
Mervue United 0 - 0 Longford Town
0' - Longford make only one change to the side which defeated Finn Harps last week as Mark Salmon returns to their midfield with Craig Walsh dropping to the bench.
Mervue United 0 - 0 Longford Town
0' - Mervue make four changes to their side for the visit of the leaders as Conor O'Malley starts in goal, Martin Conneely starts his first game of the season, Alan Murphy returns from injury and Shane Keogh also starts. Gary Kelly, Stephen Walsh and Alex Lee drop to the bench. Ronan Forde is injured.
Mervue United 0 - 0 Longford Town
0' - Welcome to Fahy's Field for tonight's clash between league leaders Longford Town and Mervue Utd who are playing at home for a second week in a row. Terry Flaherty with your updates. |
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90' + 5' - Full Time - Full time here and Longford have come back from the dead to snatch victory here at Fahy's Field in an very eventful game were referee Phil Caschera' decisions have been very questionable to say the least. Longford stay top tonight though after this amazing comeback.