Omagh Hospitals 6-0 Lisnaskea Rovers

Lisnaskea Rovers remain without a point in Division Two after they lost 6-0 to Omagh Hospitals on Saturday.  

Rovers were only one goal down at halftime against an in-form Hospitals side, but they fell away in the second half as Oisin Millar helped himself to four goals and Caolan O’Donnell scored twice. 

Rovers manager Ronnie Kernaghan admits his side are facing a difficult season, as they look to bring through the club’s youth.

“We have five under-17 and under-18 players again this week, and that is the way I am going this season, trying to promote the youth,” he explained.  

“It is not working in terms of results, but it is breaking them into that senior mould. At the end of the day hopefully, it will bode well for the future, not the short term but the long term.” 

Hospitals opened the scoring in the fourteenth minute through the prolific Millar, but the game remained in the balance until the second half, with Eimhin Curran Rovers’ most threatening outlet. 

O’Donnell scored a second for the visitors three minutes after the restart, and Millar’s second of the day put the result beyond doubt.

He completed his second consecutive hat-trick with ten minutes remaining, with O’Donnell making it five two minutes later, before Millar rounded off the victory. 

“They are a strong physical side, and obviously we are not in any great shape at the minute in terms of five games in and five defeats,” admitted Kernaghan.  

“We started the game off pretty even in the first ten or fifteen minutes. We kept it tight and there was some decent play from both sides, but a mistake at the back cost us the first goal.

"We kept plugging away and we had a few chances but just couldn’t take them. We battled hard in the first half and in the last 15 minutes of the first half our tails were up.

"We were playing some nice passing football and keeping possession and working hard, and the halftime team talk was to do more of the same.

"Keep the intensity up and don’t let them play football, but the guys just didn’t start in the second half. There was a couple of mistakes with wayward passes that were sloppy. We conceded a quick couple of goals, and then the heads dropped.”