Avondhu looking menacing
The north Cork men will be pitted against champions Nemo Rangers in Saturday’s quarter-final tie in Rathcormac, but a place in the last eight looked beyond them for large stages of normal time in this clash. After a subdued opening-half performance when they trailed 1-3 to 0-2 at the interval, they struggled again in the third quarter to produce any meaningful patterns of play.
Aghada held all the aces at that juncture as they possessed a 1-5 to 0-2 lead, yet remarkably, they would only score a single point, courtesy of substitute Brendan Crowley, in the remainder of the match. Avondhu produced a ferocious finish to normal time, ignited by a towering display from Paudie Kissane, who drove them on from centre-back and a free-scoring performance by Cian O’Riordan up front as he wriggled clear of the tight marking of Kieran O’Connor to land vital points.
