A goal reminiscent of a Ryan Giggs' effort included as Town dent Villa's league ambitions

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Clonmel Town 4 – 2 Peake Villa

Peakes Villa’s recent run of poor form continued on Sunday at the Dr Pat O’Callaghan Complex in Clonmel, when they went down to a Clonmel Town side whose form has been up and down of late. The result might just have put a huge dent into the Thurles side’s chances of retaining their Premier League title.

Despite starting well and taking an early lead through Liam McCormack, Peake Villa failed to kick on and were made to pay by a Town side who were clinical throughout. Once Juan Aguedo cancelled out McCormack’s opener it was all Town and they added a second immediately through Charlie Barlow to take a 2-1 lead.

Town pushed on again and again but it was from a breakaway that saw them score a third. It was a goal reminiscent of that famous Ryan Giggs effort all those years ago in an FA Cup semi-final, when Jake French Davis picked up the ball in his own half and took on the entire visiting defence before finding the net with a brilliant finish.

Davis then was on hand to add a fourth goal for Town early in the second half to put the game to bed.

Peake Villa did however mount a comeback and pulled a goal back through Billy McCarthy and despite forcing Daniel Hayde into making a couple of fabulous blocks their efforts where much too late to seriously threaten the home side.