Bray Wanderers 1-2 Galway United

Match rpt from rte.ie

The scouts came to watch Jay O'Shea by the seaside and he gave them food for thought by grabbing a 90th minute winner at the Carlisle Grounds.

Observers from Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Derby, Watford and Falkirk were in attendance and most were there to run the rule over the Ireland U-21 ace.

The winner arrived for the visitors when O'Shea latched onto John Russell's slide rule pass to beat the offside and poke under Chris O'Connor form 16-yards.

The Seagulls had retained the same starting 11 who had defeated Drogheda last weekend, but Shamrock Rovers-bound Paddy Kavanagh picked up a hamstring injury during the warm-up.

Despite losing Paddy Kavanagh , bottom of the table Bray got off to the perfect start after just five minutes as Shane O'Neill marked his full home debut with his first senior goal.

Dave Webster hit a free-kick from the halfway line into O'Neill who turned Gary Breen brilliantly with a clever back-heel.

And the striker fired a low, left-footed drive into the bottom corner of Barry Ryan's net.

Having been on the back-foot, Galway almost equalised in the 29th minute after being awarded their first free-kick.

Jay O'Shea picked out the unmarked Derek O'Brien on the edge of the 18-yard area and the winger crashed a left foot drive that rattled the outside of the far post.

They went close again in first half stoppage time. O'Shea's corner wasn't dealt with by Wanderers and Cian McBrien tried to work his way back into the crowded box.

His shot fell to Vinny Faherty, which was deflected over the bar by Derek Pender's last-gasp block.

Substitute Jason Molloy was introduced at the break as Ian Foster reverted from 4-1-4-1 to 4-4-2.

And it paid dividends in the 57th minute as O'Shea swung over a corner deep to the back stick and sub Jason Molloy nodded back into the danger zone.

The ball fell to Breen who blasted in his third goal of the campaign from close range.

And then it was O'Shea who grabbed all three points for the visitors as he struck the winner in the final minute.


Bray Wanderers: O'Connor, Pender, Foran, Webster, Knight (Massey, 56); David O'Neill (Coughlan, 38), Brennan (Mulroy, 77), Mulcahy, Shields, McCabe; Shane O'Neill.

Galway United: Ryan; Conneely, Breen, Guthrie, O'Toole (Davoren, 74); Kelly; O'Shea, Russell, McBrien (Molloy h/t), O'Brien; Faherty (Murphy 67).