A late, late goal from Daniel Reynolds saw Longford snatch victory at the death against Waterford in the refixed Division 4 encounter in Cappoquin Logistics Fraher Field.<\/p>\n
The midlanders looked to have lost it on the stroke of full-time when a long punt into the square from Liam Mulligan somehow wound up in the net, putting the home side 3-14 to 1-17 ahead.<\/p>\n
A Dylan Farrell free brought it back to a two-point game and then Reynolds found the net in the 73rd minute to nab the win for Mike Solan’s team.<\/p>\n
The game was the only casualty<\/a> of the weather in Round 1 and was refixed for football’s gap weekend. In the meantime, Longford, whose O’Byrne Cup defence ended on a lost coin-toss, were beaten in their first match of the year at home to London<\/a>, a sobering reversal.<\/p>\n It also went from bad to worse as they looked set for a defeat against the team who’d finished bottom of Division 4 for the past two years.<\/p>\n Aaron Ryan’s goal put Waterford ahead on 19 minutes, at a time when the home side had been reduced to 14 men after Mulligan’s black card.<\/p>\n Farrell hit back with a goal three minutes later, with further points from Reynolds and Peter Lynn leaving the visitors 1-08 to 1-07 ahead at the break.<\/p>\n Darragh Walsh found the net for Waterford immediately on the restart but Longford took control for the rest of the third quarter, Dessie Reynolds nailing a two-pointer.<\/p>\n They held a slender advantage until the closing stages when a late two-pointer levelled the game, followed by the chaotic goal to put Ephie Fitzgerald’s team three in front. But there was another sting in the tail.<\/p>\n “The biggest bit of credit to the lads is we were three points down with two minutes and 20 [seconds] left in extra time and we dug it out,” Solan told Longford GAA after the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A late, late goal from Daniel Reynolds saw Longford snatch victory at the death against Waterford in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-287918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}