{"id":9635,"date":"2018-11-26T16:48:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northdownhc.co.uk\/?p=9635"},"modified":"2018-11-26T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:48:14","slug":"late-goal-from-shea-wins-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/26\/late-goal-from-shea-wins-a-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Late goal from Shea wins a point!"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Down thirds made the short trip to The Dub last Saturday to take on fellow promotion side Queens seconds and having lost three from four to the students in league and cup last season were aware of the challenge ahead.<\/p>\n

North Down dominated possession in the first half keeping the hosts to very few chances. The midfield marshaled by\u00a0Chris Speers and Andy Walls\u00a0pulled the strings and set up a number of goal scoring opportunities.\u00a0Harry McKeown\u00a0displayed great skill on the wing with some neat tricks and turns in the circle.\u00a0Adam Tate\u00a0had two chances in front of goal but the Queens keeper stood firm and smothered his efforts.\u00a0Andrew Shannon\u00a0had a great chance before the break when he beat the keeper but somehow missed the target. Despite the visitors\u2019 dominance it was still scoreless at half time.<\/p>\n

The hosts started better in the second half and went ahead with a well struck penalty corner early on. They then controlled possession and North Down struggled to get the ball up the pitch. With the minutes ticking away it looked like the Comber men would be heading home with no points but a late rally in the final minutes put pressure on the Queens defence and eventually they got a break with a crashed ball deflecting and falling to\u00a0Scott Moore\u00a0on the byline who passed to skipper Pyper in front of the keeper. Too close take the chance himself, Pyper slipped it square for the on rushing right back\u00a0Shea Kelly\u00a0to slide in and pull the ball back inside the post to equalise. As the keeper picked the ball out of the net the final whistle blew and the thirds escaped with a point!<\/p>\n

PMB Man of the Match:\u00a0 Harry McKeown.<\/p>\n

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North Down thirds made the short trip to The Dub last Saturday to take on fellow promotion side Queens seconds and having lost three from four to the students in league and cup last season were aware of the challenge ahead. North Down dominated possession in the first half keeping the hosts to very few…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-match-reports","category-mens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9637,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635\/revisions\/9637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}