Bohs left it late to salvage a 2-2 draw at Dalymount Park.
Gavin Cooney reports from Dalymount Park Bohemians 2 Sligo Rovers 2 IT’S EXCITING AND unnerving and thrilling and promising and frustrating and oh my god it is so frustrating but it’s back, baby.
Dalymount Park was blanketed with a kind of pre-game pessimism that sits uneasily on the first day of the season, given this is the one time of year when heady hope and optimism enjoy listed status. But not so at Bohs. The incongruity of their gloom was some amalgam of last season’s poor league form, an FAI Cup final hangover, and the underwhelming sum of their off-season business.
Advertisement Cue bedlam to mock the pre-game mood. One Bohs fan danced in one of the Jodi Stand’s aisles singing of how they were about to win the league. Reinkort’s goal crowned a lively Bohs start, with Adam McDonnell firing narrowly wide from range. Declan Devine rejigged things at the break. Kukulowicz was put out of his misery and replaced by Brian McManus, which saw Estonian international Michael Lilander shuffle to right -back and Jordan Flores drop to centre-back. Sligo still fizzed with energy, mind, and Power’s rabona cross from the right wing went sadly unconverted.
Another of Bohs’ Estonian contingent, Martin Miller, was sprung from the bench and he almost created an equaliser, when his cross to the back post for teenage striker Nickson Okosun was headed against his own post by Hutchinson.
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