Cork led by 1-3 to 0-0 after just five minutes and by 14 points at the break
Wexford’s hopes of semi-final come to shuddering halt against dominant Cork“We played some good ball but they probably outfoxed us in many aspects of the play in the first half. Loads for us to work on. I wouldn’t mind about the deflating end to the league. The goal all along was to stay in Division 1 hurling and we achieved that last week.
Alan Connolly wasn’t available to Cork last year because of injury, but he has made a storming impression over the last couple of weeks and has surely nailed down a place. He followed up his hat-trick from last Sunday with another hat-trick in Wexford Park, and if he had been clinical he could easily have had five goals.His first came after just 69 seconds when Patrick Horgan flashed a ball across the Wexford square and Connolly lunged at the far post to deflect it home.
The third goal finally arrived in second half stoppage time when Shane Barrett was brought down going through and Cork were awarded a penalty. With Patrick Horgan no longer on the field it looked like Shane Kingston would take it, but he appeared to pass the opportunity to Connolly, and his unconvincing shot squirmed under Fanning’s hurley.
Cork were on top all over the field with Ciaran Joyce dominant at centre back and Tommy O’Connell cementing his status as Cork’s new leading man at centrefield. Wexford didn’t play with an extra defender, and with Cork so dominant in the middle third, the Wexford full back line was bombarded. Horgan looked really sharp in the first 20 minutes especially, and by half time Cork’s inside forwards had scored 2-4 from play.
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