Sligo Rovers 0
Dundalk 2
Jessica Farry reporting from The Showgrounds
DUNDALK EXTENDED THEIR lead at the top of the SSE Airtricity Premier Division table to seven points courtesy of a 2-0 victory over Sligo Rovers at The Showgrounds.
Dane Massey gave Vinny Perth’s men the lead in the first-half, with Andy Boyle extending their lead in the second-half.
The defending champions had not lost a league game since they were defeated by the Bit O’Red at The Showgrounds on 12 April.
Both sides came into this game on the back of victories last Friday night. The Lilywhites were hopeful that three points would extend their lead at the top of the table, with Shamrock Rovers four points behind.
The visitors took the lead after 15 minutes when Patrick McEleney found Michael Duffy in a good position, the former Derry man’s cross was initially blocked, but fell nicely into the path of the onrushing Dane Massey whose volley from 15 yards smashed into the back of the net.
Ed McGinty saved from a Jamie McGrath shot to deny Dundalk their second of the game, before Kyle Callan McFadden got on the end of a Regan Donelon cross, forcing a save from Gary Rogers.
McGrath and Patrick Hoban both came close to doubling Dundalk’s lead, but could not keep their shots on target.
An under-hit back pass from Sean Gannon caused problems for the league leaders just before half-time when the alert Romeo Parkes spotted the mistake and picked up possession, but Rogers did well to block the attempt with his feet.
The champions made it 2-0 eight minutes into the second-half when Duffy’s corner was nodded in by Andy Boyle.
McEleney almost made it 3-0 just minutes later when his powerful drive from 25 yards had the beating of McGinty in the Sligo goal, but he could only watch on in agony as his long-range shot smacked against the crossbar.
Duffy almost made it three for the league leaders on 67 minutes, but his curling shot hit the crossbar.
The Bit O’Red had the crossbar to thank once again on 80 minutes when it got in the way of Hoban’s shot.
Sligo Rovers: Ed McGinty; Lewis Banks, Kyle Callan-McFadden, John Mahon, Regan Donelon (Niall Morahan, 80); Sam Warde, David Cawley, Daryl Fordyce (Niall Watson, 74), Ronan Murray (John Russell, 56); Romeo Parkes, Kris Twardek.
Dundalk: Gary Rogers; Seán Gannon, Sean Hoare, Andy Boyle, Dane Massey; Daniel Kelly (Robbie Benson, 72), Chris Shields, Patrick McEleney, Michael Duffy (Lido Lotefa, 87); Patrick Hoban, Jamie McGrath (Cameron Dummigan, 79).
Referee: Derek Tomney
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I know this is off topic but agureo is out for 3 months after a muscle tear.
Silva went off injured last night as well. My fantasy football team is falling apart.
Sky says its a month. Aguero is one player who shouldn’t be playing and international football outside of major tournaments.
great news, i lost alot of ground last week in fantasy league!
the Liverpool club and fans get excited far to quickly. he could barely do it in the bundesliga with a world class team so how will he do it with average leftover players in a top league. it really is baffling tbh
Could barely do it?? He won it twice with them..
Another United fan far more interested in what Liverpool are doing than that gobbeam LVG
Gavin Mark doesn’t speak for the United fans, Mark is a pretty stupid individual.
Matt also implies here that Germany is not a top league. Silly Matt.
You can criticise Liverpool while still accepting the reality that their manager has a more than decent record.
Louis Van Gaal also had a bad time at Barcelona the second best team of all time.. For 6 seasons Dortmund were 50/50 with Bayern..
This proves my point , Matt clearly stated yesterday that’s he’s a Chelsea fan but because he winds up the bitters he’s automatically classed as a Manu fan ! Now there’s something familiar about that ……
Which begs the question Cian , if things where so great at dortmund why did all the players choose to leave ?????
Gavin Doyle do you not relies by now that L.van Gaal is a spoofer. :-)
Money?
Money Justin. Where did those players go when they left? Bayern- gotze & lewandowski, Kagawa – Utd, sahin- Liverpool, and the fella whose name I can’t remember went to Real Madrid. All places where the money is much better than Dortmund
Sahin actually went to madrid and from there went on loan to liverpool and back to dortmund then…
Cheers fionn
So in other words it not going to matter what he does or wins at Liverpool cause if someone offers to pay players more money they will leave.
Nucky I didn’t see Matt mention Everton at all
Lvg a spoofer??? Have you seen the state of the Dutch team since he left.
Does it have “I’m the one who klopps” on the back of it!!!!
Matt the troll strikes again. Zzzzzzzzzz.
Do they have PL winners 15/16 on the back , well I’m not getting one then
Poor Danno, you must be devastated. I’m sure United will win a game again soon so you can go back to tipping them for the league, but you might have to wait until after Crystal Place away.
Well if its isn’t ‘ the king of the bitters’ ! Ron better to concentrate on your own teams form …. But do not despair ‘The Clairvoyant One’ has spoken …. He’s not making promises but if he’s still there in 4 yrs he’ll have won the league ….. Will I laugh now ….
Danno try taking your own advice & concentrating on your own team
Danno, the irony of you saying “better to concentrate on your own team” to someone ha ha, try taking your own advice..
It’s even funnier when you say it twice