Tipperary side Peake Villa ease past Cork opposition into last eight of Munster Junior Cup

MUNSTER JUNIOR CUP (Last 16)

Springfield Ramblers 0 Peake Villa 3

This game might have seemed curious to the casual observer who thought that Springfield had already dispatched Peake Villa from the Munster Junior Cup in the previous round, but that was the Thurles side’s second team.

On Sunday, the “big brothers” arrived back in Cobh, and handed down a revenge dish to cruise into the quarter-finals of this year’s competition.

The TSDL side started well and went close in the 11th minute when Darragh Byrne hit the post. But netminder Willie Tierney was called into action six minutes later, when he made a good save, underlining the danger that any complacency about the tie Villa might have had, would very quickly be punished by this very capable Cork outfit.

There wasn’t much between the teams and the best chance before half time fell to Villa’s Keith Cahill, who came close, but wasn’t able to turn the ball into the net.

The Tipperary side came out in the second half and showed some real purpose and were finally rewarded in the 63rd minute when a Mikey Wade corner was headed to the back of the net by Dale Loughnane to give them a deserved lead.

On top now, they pressed home their dominance and added a second in the 73rd minute when Mikey Wade scored to make it 2-0.

They added a cherry on top of what was an all round excellent performance when Jack Ryan Casey capped a fine performance to score and make the final result 3-0 to the Thurles visitors.