Athlone Town FC

Pre-Season Friendly

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Oriel Park

Athlone Town played out a scoreless draw away to north-east outfit Dundalk last Sunday afternoon in their third fixture of their pre-season plans. Athlone enjoyed more possession of the ball in comparison to last Thursday night’s encounter with Premier Division side Bohemians and in truth the result could have gone either way in this end-to end encounter with both sides having their chances.

With manager Brendan Place attending his Pro-Licence coaching course, assistant manager Padraig Moran took control with newly installed coach Alan McCann also overlooking proceedings. As is expected with pre-season matches, Athlone made numerous changes to their starting line-up with former Dundalk players Chris Bennion and Robbie Farrell among those to come into a 4-4-2 visitor’s line-up.

Dundalk were the side to get the first real sight at goal as Wayne Hatswell fired in a free-kick in the 5th minute but found Bennion positioned well to comfortably deal with the set-piece. Athlone answered back with an opportunity of their own as holding midfielder Kevin Dunne played in Niall Scullion behind the opposition back four only for Dundalk net-minder Peter Cherrie to parry away the ensuing strike.

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