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Battling Candystripes snatch win from the jaws of defeat

written by cassoscoop April 5, 2025
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Derry City came from behind to beat Cork City 2-1 at the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium on Friday night.

It was their third win of the SSE Airtricity Premier Division season after a disappointing start to the new season.

Kitt Nelson had headed the visitors in front on 14 minutes.

Brian Maher seemed to misjudge Benny Couto’s cross allowing Nelson, who was unmarked at the back post, to head into the empty net.

But second half strikes from Michael Duffy and Ronan Boyce were enough to give the Candystripes victory.

Tiernan Lynch’s side move up to sixth in the table and are now four points behind unlikely leaders Drogheda United after eight games whilst Cork fall to ninth position and are just three points above bottom side Sligo Rovers.

Derry are back at the Brandywell on Friday, 11 April as Drogheda come to town.

The Tribesmen took an unlikely lead on 14 minutes.

The Candystripes would trail 1-0 at the break as Sean Patton was twice denied in quick succession by Tienn Troust in the Cork goal while Kevin Holt came close with a header.

Derry hosted fans in their new North Stand for the first time and they were treated to a front row seat for all of the action in the second half.

Cork failed to clear a home corner allowing Boyce to fire in the equaliser from an acrobatic bicycle kick on 65 minutes.

Less than 10 minutes later Duffy found a yard of space in the box and sent a powerful effort through the legs of Troust to seal a much needed three points for his side.

That was Duffy’s fifth goal of the season and with Derry only scoring seven so far, his goals have directly contributed to 10 of his side’s 11 points so far this season.

A total of 3,698 fans packed into the Brandywell to savour the win.

Derry City: Brian Maher, Ronan Boyce, Hayden Cann, Kevin Holt, Ben Doherty (Sam Todd 84); Carl Winchester (Robbie Benson 84), Adam O’Reilly, Paul McMullan (Dom Thomas 62); Sean Patton (Gavin Whyte 62), Liam Boyce, Michael Duffy.

Cork City: Tein Trosst, Bernardo Couto (Matthew Kiernans 81), Rio Shipston (Harvey Skieters 81), Charlie Lyons, Ruairi Keating, Alex Nolan (David Dunne 87), Cathal O’Sullivan, Kitt Nelson (Joshua Fitzpatrick 70), Sean Murray, Darragh Crowley, Milan Mbeng.

Referee: Aaron O’Dowd (Dublin).

Battling Candystripes snatch win from the jaws of defeat was last modified: April 19th, 2025 by cassoscoop

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