After a dour first half, Stephen Bradley’s men outclassed their rivals.
IF THE FIRST half at Tallaght last night was a reminder of why Shamrock Rovers started the day seventh in the table a point behind Bohs, the second half reinforced why they are a side going for a fifth league title on the bounce.
Honohan kept Dylan Connolly quiet and added plenty in an attacking sense, while similarly, Burns caused plenty of problems for Dayle Rooney and Paddy Kirk on Bohs’ left. And for the third, Aboubacar Keita has to be stronger and not allow Aaron Greene to shrug him off so easily — perhaps unsurprisingly, new boss Alan Reynolds substituted the American defender four minutes later.
“First half, I thought we were hesitant, we were slow in everything we did,” he said afterwards. “The spaces were there, the gaps were there. We knew how they pressed. Alan presses that way, he did that with Derry. We knew how he presses. The spaces were there, we just didn’t see them first half. “We’ve worked with these players. They get it. We’re working that way, four years, five years. That’s the frustrating bit, they see it. So when you show it to them, they understand it. So in the second half, it was just about trusting it and going and penetrating. Like I said, how they pressed, we knew the spaces would be there, we just had to exploit them.”
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