Goals from Ben Doherty and Jamie McGonigle secure big win on the road for Ruaidhrí Higgins’s side
Rovers will easily move on. Following a stuttering start to their four-in-a-row title chasing campaign, drawing twice on the road and swallowing three red cards in the process, they were supreme in patches.
Traps were laid all over the carpet-like surface, with solo runs or over-ambitious passing punished by tight systems invented in the minds of Higgins and Bradley. The 19-year-old, on loan from Celtic, let the ball run across his body before slashing his finish into the roof of Brian Maher’s net. Talk of Rovers being equipped to compete on the domestic and European front proved empty rhetoric in 2022. It remains up for debate in 2023. O’Neill patched them together in the absence of five regular defenders but the prodigious Justin Ferizaj has yet to reappear this season while Rory Gaffney and Liam Burt, the new signing from Bohemians, were warming the bench for far too long.
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