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Dundalk 0 - 3 St. Patrick's Athletic
- Emmet Maloney
- Sun, Jul 18 2010
The inevitable happened at Oriel as a St. Patrick's Athletic team high on confidence and work rate disposed of a Dundalk team as low on energy as they are on confidence at the moment. A first half brace from the head of Dave Mulcahy and a second half clincher from Conor Kenna were enough to give all three points to the Inchicore boys.
Pats opened the scoring in the sixth minute as a corner from Damien
Lynch was flighted to the centre of the goal about eight yards out to the
untroubled head of Dave Mulcahy who had no problem finding Peter
Cherries bottom left hand corner. Dundalk are conceded a lot of goals
in this way recently and they must be desperate to get Liam Burns back
into the team after injury.
The second goal was highly also unsatisfactory from a Lilywhite
viewpoint. In the 18th minute a Ryan Guy throw from the right hand
side was headed on at the near post and found Mulcahy beyond the far
post and at an acute angle. From this angle his header back across
goal cleared everyone and nestled in the far corner of the net.
Dundalk finally started to get a foothold and efforts from a Breen
header on 36 minutes and a Miller hooked shot on 45 minutes brought
saves from Gary Rogers in the Pats net. But Pats hit the changing
rooms two to the good and pretty much in control.
The evening got even worse for the Lilywhites on 51 minutes when Neale
Fenn was adjudged to have handled the ball around 35 yards from his
own goal. Damien Lynch floated in a ball to the centre of the net
where a stooping Conor Kenna deflected the ball into the net with the
top of his head.
That killed the match as a contest and the superior work rate of Pats
was enough to snuff out any potential come back by the home team. In
fairness to Shaun Kelly it wasn’t for the want of trying on his part
as several strong runs down the wing was about the only threat that
Dundalk could muster.
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