VEC were 1-0 up at half-time from this goal from Joey Byrne in the 20th minute. Larkview equalised 7 minutes into the second half and despite VEC creating a number of decent chances – not converted – the visitors took their breakaway chances around the hour mark, scoring 3 goals in a 22 minute spell. Having lost some key players through injury before that, did not help our cause, as we became a little dis-jointed. Antoine Daubigny pulled one back in injury time, but it was too late.
VEC FC v Boghall Rovers
Boghall unable to field a team: points awarded to VEC.
VEC FC v Harding IF FC 2nds
VEC win the penalty shoot-out 5-4 [Scorers: R. Newe, P. Meghen, Paddy Cook, Jeff De Castro, T. Skaar].
[Where Shield matches are played in a round-robin format and a group match is tied at the end of normal time, penalty kicks shall be taken to determine the “winner”. Each tied team in a drawn game will get one point in its group and the winner of the penalty shoot-out will gain an extra point].
VEC FC v Larkview FC
This was Joey Byrne opening the scoring in the 31st minute, and then just 5 minutes after the break, he provided the assist for Pat Meghen to score our second goal. Great defending ensured that the opposition never really looked like scoring, as we took all 3 points after it finished 2-0.
VEC FC v Coolock Village FC
VEC’s 2nd goal by Ronan Murphy (not in pic.) and history maker Pat Meghen who scored the Club’s quickest ever goal after 8 seconds!
VEC FC v Malahide Utd 2nds
3 goals in a 7-minute spell in the first half put VEC on the road to a deserved 3 points in this league match. Leading goal-scorer Pat Meghen opened the scoring after 15 minutes, followed by skipper Shane O’Conner’s bullet header (pic.2) and then Pat’s penalty, before Paddy Cook made it 4-0 just before half-time, with an audacious lob from all of 40 yards which was also spectacular.
Another clever effort from Paddy 7 minutes after the restart put the game beyond reach. Significantly, this was Paddy’s 50th goal for VEC. In the final 10 minutes, the visitors pulled one back, but substitute Conor Lewis (pic.1) had the final say scoring – yet again – against Malahide Utd.
VEC FC v Harding IF FC 2nds
1 goal on the hour mark decided this very close contest.
VEC FC v Glasnaion FC
This was Pat Meghen’s 100th goal for VEC FC.
VEC FC v Dublin Hospitals FC
VEC FC v Glasnevin FC
Glasnevin’s first real effort on goal in the 30th minute yielded the first goal of this cup match. But it only took Pat Meghen 6 minutes to put us on level terms with a beautiful strike from 25 yards. Then, 3 minutes after the re-start, Frankie Nolan hit the back of the net, sending us on our way to the second round. Though we had some important defending to do in the closing minutes to hold onto our 2-1 lead (see pic.)!
Roll on Dublin Hospitals FC on 12th October!