All in all its fair to say that pre-season has gone well for Bray. Having lost both Setanta Cup matches the Wanderers won 3 out of 3 friendlies against other clubs from the Republic. Excluding the Setanta Sports Cup games Bray also haven't conceded a goal as they overcame Waterford by 5 goals to nil, St Mochtas by 2 goals to nil and last night Wexford Youths by 3 goals to nil.
Bray have been played very nice free flowing football during the pre-season matches and this style continued last night against a very disciplined and resilient Wexford Youths. Wanderers should have taken the lead after just 5 minutes when Jason Byrne headed over from close range. Byrne was key to the free flowing football last night. This continued when Byrne controlled the ball and lied it on for John Mulroy who's shot went just wide. Mulroy was involved again only minutes later when he forced Youths goalkeeper Graham Doyle into a fine save and tip the shot around the post.
Youths got their first real chance on the 18th minute when CJ Browne headed over Quigley's bar from a corner. Marty Waters and Jason Byrne look to already have a very good understanding as to how each other plays. On the 28th minute Byrne put Waters through by he had a shot blocked by CJ Browne. Wanderers took the lead on the 41st minute when Danny O'Connor took a long range shot from around 20 yards out maybe even more which riffled into the top corner of the net leaving the keeper with no chance. Danny will hope he can hit a few more of them during the season.
Quigley got his first major taste of the action 5 minutes into the 2nd half when he tipped over a header from Malone.Marty Waters had one of those nights when nothing seemed to go in for him, however he kept on trying and he got his reward on the 67th minute when he took a long range shot from the just before the edge of the box.The shot curled and nestled in the top corner. A very good strike indeed and Wanderers 2nd long shot of the night. On 72 minutes Wanderers went 3 nil up when Ian Byrne took a shot , again from a fair distance out. His shot was misjudged by the Wexford goalkeeper as it looped into the net over the keepers head. Wanderers could and should have made it 4 nil on the 80th minute when Sean Houston headed wide at the back post when he was free of a marker.
Wexford nearly got one back in the last minute. A cross into the box from Wall was just missed by Furlong on the back post. Furlong was put off from the change in direction of the ball when Kane managed to get a finger tip to the cross.
BRAY WANDERERS: 1 Darren Quigley, 15 Stephen Brennan, 11 Conor Butler, 3 Dane Massey, 5 Stephen Last, 16 Dean Zambra, 6 Danny O'Connor (C), 18 John Mulroy, 10 Jason Byrne, 21 Kieran 'Marty' Waters
SUBS: 2 Jason Rankin(Last ,58), 7 Ian Byrne (O'Connor H/T), 8 Ger Pender (Mulroy, 63), 12 Kevin Knight (Brennan 77), Jonathan Kelty (Waters 68), 22 Sean Houston (Butler ,68), 25 Brian Kane GK (Quigley , 68), 26 Adam Hanlon (J.Byrne , H/T), 27 Pierce Sweeney (Massey H/T)
WEXFORD YOUTH'S: 1 Graham Doyle, 2 Mark Phelan, 3 Shane Clarke, 4 Jamie Carr, 5 CJ Browne, 6 Shane Dempsey, 7 Brian Nolan, 8 Patsey Malone, 9 Danny Furlong, 10 Aidan Kennan, 11 Shane Nolan
SUBS: 12 Craig Wall (Kennan , 75), 15 Martin Keogh, 15 Thomas Clarke (S.Clarke ,71), 16 Neale Phelan (Dempsey , 71), 17 Chris Fennor (Malone 71)
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