Tipperary soccer: Peake Villa put seven goals past Wilderness Rovers

Wilderness Rovers 1 – 7 Peake Villa

Top visited bottom in the TSDL Premier League on Sunday in Clonmel, and the league champions blew their hosts away with another brilliant display of attacking football and clinical finishing, to maintain their joint lead at the top of the Premier League table.

Wilderness did quite well early on and dealt well with the champions’ attack, but once their defence was broken in the 15th minute by an Eoin O Dwyer tap-in, it looked like being a long day for the Clonmel side.

However, just seven minutes later the Wildies were back on level terms, when Cian O’Connell blocked down a clearance and sidestepped the advancing ‘keeper and slotted home to the delight of players and management.

But their joy was short- lived, as it took just two minutes for Peake to get back in front when O’Dwyer was in the right place once again to finish a good attacking move.

Three minutes later Villa got their third through Ronan Maguire’s slightly deflected shot, and although the hosts worked hard for the rest of the half, they went to the break two goals behind.

Villa came out in the second half all guns blazing, and playing fantastic football they scored four more goals inside the first quarter of an hour. Three minutes in, O’Dwyer completed his hat trick with a headed goal, before Kieran Hennessy added one in the 50th minute.

On 57 minutes O’Dwyer got his fourth with a superb finish and on the hour-mark Ronan McGuire made it seven.

The Wilderness kept battling away and threatened the goal but the Thurles side’s ‘keeper dealt with both chances pretty easily and they eased to a really good win.