Antrim stares at the relegation after Sligo loss

Allianz Football League Division three
Antrim 1-15 Sligo 1-18

Antrim's time in division three is almost a defeat against Sligo on Sunday, Andy Mcent's men who need a miracle next weekend will have a miracle to defeat the drop.

The saffron gave themselves a mountain on Sunday to climb in Corrigan Park, and produced a bland first period in which they were simply unable to give a pace, and their accuracy with the ball was bad because Sligo helped an eight-point advantage.

After the restart with the intensity that was necessary for a game of this size, it was greatly improved when they arrived within a arrival, but Sligo found the answers that day, whereby the top scorer Alan McLoughlin hit the clock over a two-point two-point two-point, and this proved that the insurance needed its page.

What all of this means is that Sligo Reprim Antrim will be the hottest favorites in Leitrim in the overall ranking in the last week before the last round of the game, where you now only need a draw, while Antrim travels to stand out in Newbridge as an outsider.

The survival will simply not happen and Antrim will have a lot of regret because they simply do not produce what was needed for half of the game, and although they swing if they started earlier, they may have been in a much better position.

“Yes, we were neglected again,” said Antrim Manager Andy Mcentee, who has granted that his team now has no chance of survival.

“I mean, these are three or four games in the league so far that we have just come a bit short and that our execution was not good enough in the first half.

“We weren't exactly and this time you know, we gave away a terrible ball up here when we had it under a small pressure and we don't count. So, you know, disappointing.

“Big games, sometimes boys may be a bit tense. But I mean great efforts in the second half, a great commitment, an enormous, great courage. I think the real problem with the first half was our lack of accuracy. I know that they had many scores, but we had a happy chance of scoring. It didn't look like it, but that's the way.”

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Sligo opened the rating when Alan Reilly built up a patient and the Yeats continued to control the early stages when Alan McLoughlin and NiUall Murphy (free) added values.

The hosts were nine minutes in the brand when goalkeeper Michael Byrne took the first of his three 45s in the first half before Ryan Mcquillan struck the game.

However, Sligo dictated terms with five of the next six points, including one, a Niall Murphy -Free, who had only two players due to Antrim in the other half of the field.

In view of what was at stake in this game, Antrim seemed to be flat when the Sligo brand made the opportunity to get to the forefoot, and when half continued, the lead continued to lead to Alan McLoughlin and Reilly.

A good score of Antrim's Eunann Walsh, which started the change in his own half, indicated an injection of life for the hosts, but the gate, which arrived properly two minutes before half, seemed to switch on the Antrim defense. The break.

The hosts needed a drastic improvement to get involved again, and they delivered 1: 4 without an answer in the third quarter.

The introduction of Dominic Mcenhill and Ruairi McCann helped Conor's hand back into midfield when they looked as much better.
Ryan Mcquillan and Paddy McBride showed early before Eunan Walsh broke out a goal to exaggerate.

Mcenhill hit over a wonderful point and by Byrne landed freely -outside the arch, but helped from a Sligo hand -before Mcenhill ended a flowing change in the 50th minute, which started with Coor Hand Run at the goal.

Just as it seemed as if the pendulum had sung opposite the hosts, Sligo rattled the next three points through Spillane, McLoughlin and Muphhy, and after Ryan Mcquillan pulled a back, the teams exchanged the two-point release by Murphy and Byrne.

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A Ronan Boyle score left two on the track, but this two-pointer from McLoughlin gave Sligo a pillow, and although Eoghan McCabe pointed out that the hosts left a goal in it. Antrim followed this second major, but it would not come when Sligo held firmly to skip Antrim over the past week in the last week, in which she accommodates Leitrim and Antrim Head to Kildare.

Mcentee accepted this for his team's survival offer, but received the not permissible goal that came when his team had taken the initiative.

“There were so many opportunities in which it was too exaggerated and what was pulled when we got a goal of it,” he considered.

“The truth of the matter is that we weren't good enough in the first half. We let ourselves be in a position that we couldn't dig up in the end.”

Sligo manager Tony Mcentee was pleased that his team achieved a significant victory that day, but had sympathy for the Antrim boss.

“We were here for five years in Sligo and when I started in the fourth division and ended up in the fourth division, this would certainly be seen as a failure at this stage,” said the cross -born.

“Our ambition was to reach division two. We didn't do that and we won't do it this year, but I think [McEntee] Fairness there. He did a lot of work in Antrim and I feel his pain per minute. It is under pressure in the minute with its status of division three, but it is outside of its control and in our control to keep our status. “

Antrim: M Byrne (0-6, 1x2pf, 3x45s, 1f); E mccabe (0-1), e walsh (0-1), k Keenan; J Finnegan, J Lenehan, D Mcaleese; C stewart, e quinn; P McBride (0-1f), n Burns, f nagle; C Hand, C Johnston (0-1), R Mcquillan (0-3).
Subs: R Boyle (0-1) for J Finnegan (23), D Mcenhill (1-1) for C Stewart (HT), R McCann for C Johnston (HT), P-Finnegan for P McBride (61), R Murray for E Quinn (66)

Sligo: D lyons; E lyons, e mcguinness, p mcNamara; B COX, D Cummins, L Totey (1-0); C Mulligan, P o'connor (0-1); C Lally (0-1), D Quinn, A Reilly (0-3); A McLoughlin (0-6, 1x2pf, 1f), N Murphy (0-5, 1x2pf, 2f), P Spillane (0-2).
Subs: R Doherty for a Reilly (38), N Mullen for L. Totey (51), S Degnan for P Spillane (52), Pkilcioyne for C Lally (68), M Gordon for P O'Connor (70+2)

REFEREE: N Mooney (cavan)