Tipperary Soccer: Tony Egan double sends Bansha Celtic through against Cashel Town

Tipperary Cup (1st Round)

Bansha Celtic 2 – 1 Cashel Town (AET)

With Celtic Park in Bansha unplayable, this game took place at Palmershill in Cashel, and it took the majority of the first half for the tie to really get going, with both sides coming at it with cautious approaches.

Cashel had the first real chance of note when a Kyle Ryan header was saved at the front post. Celtic had some good opportunities themselves but were lacking some quality and accuracy in the final third.

With no goals in the first half, the first ten minutes of the second half were pretty much the same with, neither side creating anything of note.

In the 55th minute however, Cashel opened the scoring when Kyle Ryan capitalised on an underhit pass out of defence and shot high to the roof of the net, giving the Celtic ‘keeper no chance of saving the shot.

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However, the lead was short-lived and within two minutes Bansha were level when Tony Egan found the top corner from all of 20 yards, to the delight of his team mates and management.

Both sides pushed for the winner, but more often than not simply cancelled each other out, and the game played out to the end with no more goals. In the first half of extra-time, it was evident bodies were getting tired and the game became very scrappy.

The second half saw both teams throw everything they could at each other to get the winner before they had to go to the dreaded penalty shootout.

The hosts probably had the better of what few chances there were, but in the last minute of extra-time Liam Murphy delivered a ball to the back post and Tony Egan rose highest and headed Bansha into the next round.