St Patrick’s Athletic hit seven past UCD to move to within four points of leaders as Derry City draw at Shelbourne
The hosts dominated the early exchanges but it was one of their four former players in the Rovers line-up who almost opened the scoring with what would have been a calamitous own goal on 21 minutes.
Rory Gaffney was introduced just after the hour mark to provide some attacking threat for the visitors and he almost delivered it on 67 minutes when he found space inside the box to get a shot away only to see it curl just wide of the right-hand post. Their fifth home win from five under Daly moves St Pat’s into second place in the table above Derry City, and to within four points of champions Shamrock Rovers.
Mulraney, Doyle twice, and McCormack all worked Moore before the College goalkeeper was helpless to prevent St Pat’s adding a deserved second goal right on 45 minutes; Mulraney’s low cross turned into his own net by the hapless Michael Gallagher. Two minutes later another sub, Mason Melia, stabbed home following a Curtis cross to become the club’s youngest ever league goalscorer at just 15.
Although the Dubliners grew in confidence as a consequence of this opener, Derry restored parity in superb style when Ben Doherty unleashed an unstoppable strike to the top left-hand corner in the 71st-minute. But they only had Jonathan Afolabi’s late strike to show for their trip to the northwest, as they failed to build on last week’s come-from-behind draw with arch rivals Shamrock Rovers.
Barlow concluded an incident-packed first half by picking up his first booking before the break, and he received his second just after the hour-mark for a deliberate foul.
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