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Kerry’s forward Paddy Lane tries to get away from the challenge of Roscommon defender, Diarmuid O’Higgins, during Wednesday evening’s All-Ireland U-20 football semi-final at FBD Semple Stadium. Picture: INPHO\/Dan Clohessy<\/p>\n\n Dalata Hotel Group All-Ireland U-20 Football Championship Semi-Final\n <\/p>\n
Roscommon\u2019s magical journey in this year\u2019s All-Ireland U-20 football championship came to an end at a bitterly cold FBD Semple Stadium on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
The end scoreline was extremely harsh on the Connacht champions who showed incredible heart and resilience to bring the game to extra time \u2014 hitting the last seven points in the final 11 minutes and the six minutes of injury time to restore parity.<\/p>\n
But three goals in the first four minutes of the second period of extra time from Player of the Match Daniel Kirby, Paddy Lane, and Tom\u00e1s Kennedy propelled Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 S\u00e9\u2019s side into an unassailable position, giving a shellshocked Roscommon side no time to recover.<\/p>\n
Roscommon were crippled by turnovers in the opening half, with all of Kerry\u2019s scores coming from players in Primrose and Blue giving away possession.<\/p>\n
The teams shared the first four points \u2014 John McGuinness and Niall Heneghan scoring for Roscommon inside the opening nine minutes, while a double by Paddy Lane accounted for Kerry\u2019s scores.<\/p>\n
But Roscommon wouldn\u2019t trouble the scoreboard again for the remainder of the half as a physically stronger Kingdom hit the next six points \u2014 Lane, Gear\u00f3id White with a two-pointer, Daniel Kirby, Jack O\u2019Sullivan and Tom\u00e1s Kennedy leaving the Munster champions 0-8 to 0-2 ahead at the break.<\/p>\n
Roscommon upped the ante in the third quarter but their shooting let them down, missing four two-point attempts, while Dean Casey drew a smart save out of Kerry goalkeeper Kacper Robak.<\/p>\n
In the first 19 minutes of the new half, Kerry outscored their opponents by 0-3 to 0-2 to keep them at arm\u2019s length, and lead 0-11 to 0-4 with 11 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
Kerry’s forward Paddy Lane tries to get away from the challenge of Roscommon defender, Diarmuid O’Higgins, during Wednesday evening’s All-Ireland U-20 football semi-final at FBD Semple Stadium. Picture: INPHO\/Dan Clohessy<\/p>\n
But Roscommon kept plugging away as a free from Charlie O\u2019Carroll was sandwiched between two points from play by the excellent McGuinness.<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper Patrick Gaynor nailed a \u201945, and when O\u2019Carroll nailed a two-pointer with a minute remaining after the ball was advanced by referee Seamus Mulhare when Eoghan Carthy was fouled, the comeback had taken flight.<\/p>\n
Then, in the sixth minute of the injury time, substitute Ruair\u00ed Kilcline did brilliantly to maintain his balance to fire over the equaliser and send the Roscommon crowd among the 1,437 in attendance into raptures.<\/p>\n
Both teams swapped frees through Lane and Kilcline before Kerry substitutes Jack Joy and Dara Hogan, and midfielder Daniel Kirby \u2014 with a superb score \u2014 left Kerry 0-15 to 0-12 ahead at the end of the opening half of extra time.<\/p>\n
With the wind to come, the three-point deficit was manageable from a Roscommon perspective but no one could have foreseen the Kerry train that was coming down the tracks.<\/p>\n
Within 39 seconds of the restart, Joy set up Kirby for the game\u2019s opening goal.<\/p>\n
McGuinness pointed for Roscommon with his fourth score of the evening, but rapid-fire goals from Lane and senior star Kennedy put the game to bed.<\/p>\n
Conor Grogan (free), Kilcline and O\u2019Carroll \u2014 with his second two-point free \u2014 replied for Roscommon, but the damage was done as Kerry set up a final rematch against Tyrone.<\/p>\n
For Roscommon, the dream had died, but they exited centre stage with their heads held high and were warmly applauded off the field by their supporters afterwards.<\/p>\n
KERRY: K. Robak; M. Lynch, G. Evans, D. Stack; E. O\u2019Flaherty, A. \u00d3 Beaglaoich, P. Walsh; E. Boyle, D. Kirby (1-3); J. O\u2019Sullivan (0-1), G. White (0-3, one 0-2), M. O\u2019Carroll; R. Carroll, T. Kennedy (1-3), P. Lane (1-4, two frees). Subs used: S. \u00d3 Cuinn for O\u2019Carroll (40 mins), M. McKivergan (0-1) for Walsh (46 mins), D. Hogan (0-1) for R. Carroll (52 mins), D. Sargant for O\u2019Flaherty (57 mins), J. Joy (0-1) for O\u2019Sullivan (60 mins), P. Finucane for Boyle (66 mins), J. Curtin for White (73 mins), I. Brosnan for Stack (74 mins).<\/p>\n
ROSCOMMON: P. Gaynor (0-1, one \u201845); D. O\u2019Higgins, M. Gillooly, N. Birzins; K. Kelly, E. Carthy, C. Murray; N. Heneghan (0-1), C. Enright; C. McKeon, D. Casey (0-1), E. Collins; J. Curran, C. O\u2019Carroll (0-6, two frees, two 0-2 frees), J. McGuinness (0-4). Subs used: R. Kilcline (0-3, one free) for Curran (36 mins), D. Kennedy for McKeon (38 mins), K. Hester for Casey (49 mins), D. Higgins for Collins (51 mins), S. Tighe for O\u2019Carroll (60 mins), C. Grogan (0-1, one free) for Murray (full-time), L. Finneran for O\u2019Higgins (full-time), D. Casey for Tighe (70 mins), C. O\u2019Carroll for Kennedy (73 mins).<\/p>\n
Referee: S. Mulhare (Laois).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry 3-17 Roscommon 0-17 (after extra-time) Dalata Hotel Group All-Ireland U-20 Football Championship Semi-Final Roscommon\u2019s magical journey in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-447534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447534","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=447534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}