Saturday 23rd June 2007, 1:21 am
22nd June 2007
Monaghan United 4
Willie Doyle 20
Darren Meenan 26, 82
Robbie Farrell 45
Shelbourne 0
Kingspan Century Park
Monaghan United climbed off the bottom of the eircom League of Ireland and up to seventh in the First Division after a convincing 4-0 win over Shelbourne at Kingspan Century Park on Friday night.
3-0 up, Monaghan had virtually wrapped up an impressive win before half-time against the club who won the League of Ireland last season.
Willie Doyle fired the home side in front after 20 minutes after a loose ball fell kindly for him.
Six minutes later it was 2-0 as Darren Meenan fired home superbly after Doyle's through ball. Robbie Farrell nipped in against a static Shels defence to make it 3-0 on the stroke of half-time.
Meenan wrapped up an emphatic win for the home side when he slotted home his second of the night to make it 4-0 on 82 minutes.
Monaghan United : Woods, Whelan, Burke, Mooney, Williamson, Meenan, Gannon (McCluskey 84), Feeney, Mackey (O'Connor 86), Farrell (FInnegan 86), Doyle.
Shelbourne : Hussey, O'Reilly, Rafferty (Curran 46), Gartland, McEniff, Moran (Byrne 46), Harte, Chambers, O'Neill (McGlynn 46), Leech, Walsh.