Colm Whelan scores FOUR goals as Bohemians hit Killester Donnycarney for SEVEN in one-sided FAI Cup hammering
Rookie midfielder Markuss Strods started the rout off and got a brace with Rhys Brennan also netting.
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Colm Whelan scored four as Bohemians advanced in the FAI Cup
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Bohs hammered Killester Donnycarney 7-0
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Bohs lit up Dalymount Park despite the floodlights being off to ease their way into the last 16 of the Cup, ensuring the majority of the crowd left happy as the 'visitors' won comfortably.
Killester were drawn at home but opted to play the game at Dalymount and bar their fans taking Sections A and B that normally house the Gypsies hardcore, it felt in every way like a Bohemians game.
The entrance music was the same, the faces were the same and Bohs took the home
dressing room
— and were right at home on the pitch too.
There was a brief scare in the opening minutes when goalkeeper James Talbot had to
race
off his line and tackle Daniel Bergin with his feet.
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But after that it was one-way
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with the top-flight side ahead after six minutes and three up inside the opening 20.
Latvia Under-19 midfielder Strods showed why he has been around Alan Reynolds' League of
Ireland
first team with two well-taken goals.
He opened the scoring on six minutes when he followed up to tap into an empty net after Ernest Lemantovic had saved from Connor Parsons.
And he added the third on 19 minutes from the edge of the area having been picked out by Brennan.
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A minute earlier, Whelan had fired home a penalty after Parsons was fouled as he dribbled between Gavin O'Brien and Stephen Chambers.
The fourth arrived nine minutes before half-time as Parsons crossed to the near post. Whelan claimed it after going for it with defender O'Brien with the ball ricocheting in.
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Killester Donnycarney had a few half-chances with Bergin's ambitious overhead kick easily saved by Talbot. And Chambers had a shot deflected for a corner early in the second half.
But Bohs added a fifth on 64 minutes through a second Whelan penalty after Jack Power fouled him.
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Whelan sent Brennan in one-on-one to add a sixth before the four-goal man wrapped up the scoring nine minutes from time, rifling home from close range.
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Colm Whelan (Bohs)
KILLESTER DONNYCARNEY
: Lemantovic 5; Jones 5 (Cummins 74, 5), O'Brien 5 (Whelan 58, 5), Power 5, Kiernan 5; Wall 5 (Mooney 67, 5), Jeal 5, Chambers 5, Moore 5 (O'Connor 58, 5); Nolan 5 (Daly Dolan 74, 5); Bergin 5.
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: Talbot 7; Smith 7, Byrne 7, Kavanagh 7 (Morahan 70, 6), Mountney 7; Buckley 7, McDonnell 7 (Conlan h-t, 6); Brennan 7, Strods 8 (Harpur 61, 6), Parsons 8 (Osagie 61, 6); Whelan 8.
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