Gerard Doherty, back in goals after injury.
Derry City 0 St Patrick’s Athletic 0
Derry City are drawing 0-0 at half-time with defending champions St Patrick’s Athletic in their SSE Airtricity Premiership clash at Brandywell.
In a half of few clear cut chances, the visitors were the better side in the first 45 minutes forcing several saves out of Gerard Doherty, back in the Derry line-up after missing last week’s 1-1 draw at Drogheda.
Referee Paul McLaughlin ignored shouts from St Pat’s for a penalty the 13th minute when Fagan went down in the box under a challenge from McBride.
Doherty showed no signs of the injury that saw him miss that clash at Honky Dory Park when he stretched to save from ex-Derry midfielder Killian Brennan in the 35th minute.
Derry City: Doherty, McBride, Jarvis, Collins, Byrne, P McEleney, Ventre, Molloy, Patterson, Stewart.
Substitutes: Gallagher, Elebert, R Curran, E Curran, Aaron Barry, McGovern.Timlin.
St Patrick’s Athletic: Clarke, Oman (Hoare 29), O’Brien, Browne, Bermingham, Forrester, Byrne, Brennan, Bolger, Fagan, Quigley.
Substitutes: McCormack, Lynch, Kavanagh, Jennings,Fitzgerald, Chambers.
Referee: Paul McLaughlin, Monaghan.
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Premiership
Shamrock Rovers (Brennan 14) 1 Sligo Rovers 0
Athlone 0 Cork City (O’Sullivan 41) 1
Bray Wanderers (O’Connor 16, Cassidy 22) 2 UCD (Morrison 3) 1
Dundalk (Garland 28) 1 Bohemians (Price 31) 1
Limerick 0 Drogheda (O’Brien 30) 0
Division One
Waterford United 0 Wexford Youths (Furlong 18) 1
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