Bray grab vital point in bid for safety

Shelbourne 0 Bray Wanderers 0 A BRILLIANT save from Darren Quigley edged Bray a point closer to safety after this lively scoreless…

Shelbourne 0 Bray Wanderers 0A BRILLIANT save from Darren Quigley edged Bray a point closer to safety after this lively scoreless draw at Tolka Park, played in front of a crowd of 716.

Shelbourne midfielder Glenn Cronin picked out the run of Paddy Kavanagh who jinked through a couple challenges to rifle in a left-foot drive that Quigley batted away for a corner.

That came 10 minutes into the second half with Quigley having his fingers stung again from Kavanagh’s low shot minutes later. Kavanagh had another sniff from Cassidy’s quickly taken corner on 70 minutes. His quick feet carved the angle, but the shot went into the side netting. Paul Byrne did have the ball in the Bray net on 70 minutes, but it was ruled offside. Sub Daire Doyle wasted Bray’s best chance of the night when shooting over from right in front of goal on 83 minutes.

Jason Byrne forced the ball into the Shelbourne net two minutes after that, though it didn’t stand due to a push on Ian Ryan. Kavanagh then almost won it for Shelbourne three minutes into added time when his fierce drive went too high.

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SHELBOURNE: Bennion; Ryan, Boyle, Shortall, S. Byrne; Kavanagh, Cronin, Dawson, Clancy (C. Byrne, 67 mins); Cassidy; P Byrne (Gorman, 86 mins).

BRAY WANDERERS: Quigley; Webster, D. O'Connor, Mitchell, Massey; K O'Connor, Zambra; Mulroy (Doyle, 79 mins), Houston (Hanlon, 69 mins), Waters (Marshall, 90 mins).

Referee: Paul McLaughlin (Monaghan).