Cork City 1
Sligo Rovers 2
IT WAS A missed opportunity for Cork City as they fell to defeat to Sligo Rovers at Turner’s Cross on tonight.
With Premier Division leaders Dundalk having lost to Galway United on Friday, City would have moved to within three points – with a game in hand – but the performance never came near those recently shown in their impressive Europa League run.
With Sligo coming in off the back of a 5-0 win over Wexford Youths, they knew victory would move them to fifth and they got a great start on eight minutes when City goalkeeper Mark Nulty sent a clearance straight to Kieran Sadlier, who found the empty net from 30 yards out.
City responded but couldn’t get past Micheál Schlingermann in the Rovers goal and just before half-time it got even better for Dave Robertson’s side as Raffaele Cretaro made a mazy run through the City defence and rounded McNulty but before he could touch the ball home, Greg Bolger slid in to try to clear and had the final touch.
With everything to do, City pushed on in the second half and did create chances, for Karl Sheppard, Seán Maguire and Mark O’Sullivan, but last-ditch defending, good saves and wayward shooting denied them.
They were given a chance when O’Sullivan was fouled by Jimmy Keohane for a 76th-minute penalty, which Maguire converted. Unfortunately for them, that was as good as it got.
CORK CITY: Mark McNulty; Steven Beattie, Dave Mulcahy, Kenny Browne, Kevin O’Connor; Greg Bolger, Gearóid Morrissey (Garry Buckley 70); Karl Sheppard (Danny Morrissey 55), Seán Maguire, Stephen Dooley (Ian Turner 77); Mark O’Sullivan.
SLIGO ROVERS: Micheál Schlingermann; Tobi Adebayo-Rowlings, Mick Leahy, Gary Boylan (Gavin Peers 63), Jimmy Keohane; Pat McCann, Craig Roddan, Liam Martin; Achille Campion, Raffaele Cretaro (John Russell 72), Kieran Sadlier (Mikey Place 87).
Referee: Robert Harvey (Dublin).
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Micheál Schlingermann grew up in County Mayo and represented his County in the 2009 All Ireland minor football final at Croke Park against Armagh.
And your point is ….
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Poor performance from City.
Alan Bennett was a big loss in defence but credit to Sligo came to Cork and got a unexpected win.
Huge game against Bohs on Friday night.
Grimes deserves a chance in goal now for City!
Schlingermann and cretaro are both Irish with Irish accents but they are not Irish names. Anyone know where those two families are originally from?
Cretaro’s father is from Italy
Cretaro is from Tubbercurry Co. Sligo and Schlingerman is from kiltimagh Co. Mayo
Would have been huge game if City had won. League gone now, need to concentrate on trying to finish 2nd and have a good cup run.Dundalk way ahead of City in class.Maybe 3 or 4 years time might start catching them but not at the moment. Hope there won,t be any “european hangover” excuses.Sligo better team tonight, 2 chances 2 goals. City 4 or 5 chances no goals. Bad sign when City fans begging for penalties; if you can;t score from open play its not saying much.Negative rant i know but its hard to be positve leaving the Cross tonight.
Jesus they’re only 6 points behind. They also have a game in hand. With Dundalk having European football to concentrate on possibly they’ll slip up in the league and maybe cork might seize their chance. But my point is…..the league is far from over.
I know Sean,but why should we have to wait for someone to “slip up” or be tired from european games? I,d like to see City win it on merit, fair scrap from start to finish.A bit old school maybe but thats my opinion. Even if they win it now, people will say its only because Dundalk had so many european games.
Srfc
That spoofer Caulfield is the one holding Cork back. He’s a non league manager. They have the players, but City will win nothing as long as he’s in charge.
What would any other manager do any differently?