Five star Shippy progress in cup.
The Shipyard hit the goal trail on Wednesday night as they progressed to the third round of the East of Scotland Qualifying Cup with a comprehensive 5-1 over Fauldhouse United at Recreation Park. A double from Shaun Keatings and one each from Nathan Feeley, Jack Wilson and Liam Bell had the home fans delighted, particularly, with the quality of the goals. Suspensions were still playing their part in influencing Costy’s team selection with Ben Anthony and Craig Watt serving one match cup bans. Cammy Lewis never recovered from the injury he picked up on Saturday and his replacement Darrell Anthony kept his place. Bell, Scott Orrock and Lewis Ross replaced Raymond Crichton, Sandy Strang and Dan Thomson in the starting line-up.
The Shippy were on the front foot from the off and it didn’t take long to break the deadlock as Keatings smashed in an angled drive after eight minutes as he opened his account for the season. The Shipyard continued to dominate proceedings as Feeley knocked the ball over following good build up and a cheeky Keatings lob came back off the bar. Sam Glancy drove forward holding off the chasing defenders before he was unceremoniously brought down some 22 yards out. The offending player was yellow carded and there was further punishment for Fauldhouse as Keatings fired the resultant free-kick into the corner for his and the Shipyard’s second with 26 minutes on the clock. Orrock, Anthony and Glancy were dominating the midfield, though when the visitors threatened Scott Costello made a smart double save to maintain the two-goal lead. On the stroke of half-time Keatings might have got his hat-trick but he just failed to find the target after switching the ball to his left foot.
Keatsy continued to torment the Fauldhouse defence after the break as he dragged another effort just wide. The Shippy scored a third in the 52nd minute and Feeley had the simple task of rolling the ball into the empty net following a defensive mistake. Wilson and Glancy both saw shots blocked and at the other end Costy dived low to his left to push the ball away at the expense of a corner. The visitors pulled a goal back in the 62nd minute when a corner was headed in off the underside of the bar. Within a minute the Shipyard restored their three goal lead when Wilson produced a sublime finish as he curled a beauty into the top corner. The scoring was completed with the goal of the match when Bell drove forward from his full back position, evaded a couple of challenges and smashed an unstoppable dipping shot just under the bar giving Fauldhouse keeper Jacob Weatherby no chance.
Manager Dave Costello was delighted with the win when he said “We played a lot of good stuff tonight and scored some fine goals. I was disappointed that they got back into the game, albeit briefly, however, I thought we were very comfortable at the end of the day.”
On Saturday we travel to New Countess Park to face Dunbar United in a league match with kick-off at 2.30pm.
Burntisland Shipyard: S. Costello; L. Ross; L. Bell; R. O’Donnell; I. Millar; S. Orrock; S. Keatings; D. Anthony (J. Galloway); J. Wilson (D. Thomson); N. Feeley; S. Glancy (S. Strang). Unused Sub: R. Connor.
Fauldhouse United: J. Weatherby; R. Kirwan; C. Philbin; R. Lowden; S. Thompson; R. Paton; N. Murray; C. Galbraith; M. Murray; K. Trindade; D. Bannerman. Subs: G. Okacha; M. Wallace; J. Paton; T. Reid; I. Diack.
Referee: S. Gill.