The Blast Blitzed!

Style over substance produced a top drawer perfromance to overcome The Blast 6-4 in a tough, intense and manly encouner. Both these teams have played three times now, and a healthy rivalry has grown, where both are willing to go hard, but it doesnt get bitchy nor dirty. It leads to to tiring games with lots of action and plenty of hefty challenges.


Style over Substance opened the scoring half way through the first half with after working a ball through the middle, it was lost in a tackle but fell to the dextruous feet of Tom, who danced through the centre, rounded the last defender and blasted to the bottom corner. 
The Blast were being heavily pressured and Eamonn Kennedy and Jim Butler were immense in defence, blocking shots, getting in last ditch tackles, in general being a wall upon which wave after wave of attack broke and was repelled back to sea, or midfield at least.
Brian Butler put in hard yards in midfield running down the ball carrier and breaking up as much play as possible to feed Tim McCarthy who was dangerous down the right and tom and Brian Carney who were playing in more advanced positions, looking to get those elusive goals. 


The second goal came from Jim Butler breaking out of defence, sprinting down the left wing while using the decoy of Tim outside him, then he cut sharply inside exposing the stretched defence and placed a shot neatly into the bottom right corner.


The third goal came from some sterling work by Tim McCarthy who chased a clearance down the right wing, tussled hard with the polish defender and the ball squirmed up about 10 feet in the air to the on coming Brin Butler who took it in his stride, unleashing a perfectly execued volley on bounce, keeping it low and rifling it into the roof of the net.


The Blast worked a nice goal from the left hand side, shortly before half time, as they tried to expose the left flank for about 5 minutes. ventually it paid dividends and a ball came across nicely into the path of the polish striker who calmly slotted it away past neil in goals.


Half time brought a welcome breather, but shortly after half time things heated up after The Blast got a 2nd goal and cut the deficiet to one. this brought an added spice to the game, but Style over substance responded well, and a sweeping move from the back created a 3 on 2 break with Tom in control of the ball on the left, and both Brian's racing in support, Butler sprinting throught he middle, drawing across the defender and carney staying out wide, tom crossed the ball to the in flight carney who unleashed a furious volly that went right through the goalies legs. 


The Blast were not to be stopped, and pulled it back to 4-3 with another goal that was worked from the back, the big defender shielded the ball from Brian Butler, held him off and squeezed a shot past Neil O'Mahony. 


In response the game picked up intensity, but style over Substance drove much of that. Jim Butler cut out a pass and created a 4 on 2 break, Tom running hard on the left, Brian Butler running hard and off his right shoulder and Brian Carney running down the right flank, this opened up all before him and Jim drove through the heart of the midfield like a Stuka Dive Bomber and unleashed an explosive shot that lifted the goals from the ground as the ball blasted into the net.


This made it 5-3 and with superiority now confirmed, the last 5 minutes were tough but rewarding, Brian Carney got his second goal on a break and The blast scored from a long range effort that took a deflection.


Scorers Jim [2],Brian Carney [2] Brian Butler [1] Tom [1]