St Patrick’s Athletic 0 Derry City 4
Things fell apart quickly here; the centre never held. Billed as ‘top against third in the Premier Division,’ this was no meeting of equals in the race to dethrone Shamrock Rovers as Derry City filleted St Patrick’s Athletic down by the River Camac.
Rovers’ draw in Sligo leaves Ruaidhrí Higgins’ side three points clear as St Pat’s drop back into the pack. There’s clear daylight now between the big two and everyone else.
There’s a long summer ahead.
Systems, tactics and all the chatter that comes with two forensic coaches trying to outmanoeuvre each other went out the window on a warm evening in Richmond Park. St Pat’s manager Tim Clancy admitted in the build up that the club must unearth a midfielder of Alfie Lewis’s calibre, or lure the Englishman back to Dublin, and those words proved prophetic as Will Patching and Patrick McEle …
- April 30, 2022
