Ireland Boys Under-15s earned their first win of the international season with a 3-1 victory over Greece in Lisbon.

Galway United’s Ronan Keating had the honour of scoring his team’s first goal of the season on the day he was named captain and it was followed by a second by Athlone Town’s Fionn McCormack-Crowe.

Waterford’s Nathan Power scored late on with St. Patrick Athletic’s Jakub Kowalewski saving a penalty to cap off a brilliant day’s work for the young Irish team.

Ireland had come into the game after suffering defeats to hosts Portugal and Ukraine and were intent on ending the year on a high.

After 17 minutes Ireland were ahead. Connor Hudson played a ball through to Keating whose first attempt was saved but on the follow up he netted for 1-0.

Sixteen minutes later it was 2-0. Hudson was involved again this time beating to players before playing to McCormack-Crowe who curled his effort home.

Greece got back into the game in the second half after scoring directly from a free-kick, but substitute Nathan Power wrapped up the game when his turn and shot beat Chrysoulakis.

Greece had an opportunity to make the final few minutes a nervy encounter when they were awarded a penalty by Kowalewski dived to his left to deny Greek captain Evgenios Dimopoulos. 

Ireland: Madejek, Foley, Moran, Casey, Manicle, Jakas, Carney, Isakadze, McCormack-Crowe, Hudson, Keating (C). Substitutes: Kowalewski, Toth, Morgan, Senga, Savage, Power, Magill, Lee, Bonner, Rehill.

Greece: Papazygouras, Dimopoulos (C), Itskos, Papagegeorgpoulos, Andrikopoulos, Dimitrakopoulous, Solomidis, Kasimos, Liakos, Kakalis, Priovolos. Substitutes: Chrysoulakis, Koufopoulos, Kolios, Tsiftsis, Kotromagias, Zitros, Chrysoulakis, Moutas, Vidalis, Tsachouridis, Athanasopoulos, Fleggas.

UEFA DEVELOPMENT TOURNAMENT RESULTS
Wednesday December 17th | Portugal BU15 5-0 Ireland BU15
Friday, December 19th | Ukraine BU15 1-0 Ireland BU15
Monday, December 22nd | Greece BU15 1-3 Ireland BU15