Cork City 0-1 St. Patrick's Athletic

Cork City suffered another bitter defeat at home tonight after a 1-0 loss to St. Patrick's Athletic at Turner's Cross.
The late sucker punch came in the 89th minute through Ryan Guy when he finished one on one with Dan Connor to give the Dublin side all three points.

Cork City 
Starting Line-Up: Connor, Horgan, Murray, Sullivan, Murphy, O'Donnell, Gamble, Healy, Behan, Silagailis, Kuduzovic.
Substitutions: S.Duggan for O'Donnell (65mins), C.Duggan for Kuduzovic (68mins). Subs not used: O'Halloran, McNulty, Lordan.

St. Patrick's Athletic
Scorer: Guy (89mins).
Starting Line-Up: Rogers, Maher, Gavin, Partridge, Stevens, Guy, O'Connor, Byrne, B.Ryan, Harris, Fitzpatrick.
Substitutions: Ryan for Maher (76mins), Cawley for Fitzpatrick (89mins). Subs not used: Clarke, Haran, Haverty.

Referee: P.Sutton.
Official Attendance: 2,158.
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Cork City - St. Patricks Ath.

Cork City take on St. Patrick’s Athletic at Turner’s Cross in their first home tie of the second half of the League of Ireland Premier Division season. Home side still carries the title hopes, holding the fourth place with five points less than the leaders Bohemians. After six competitive games without a win and three league defeats from four games, lads woke up on the road against solid Galway United. Galway opened game with attacks (some excellent saves by Dan Connor), but as the game went Cork got stronger and first Silagailis found the net and Faz Kuduzovic with excellent strike just sealed the win. Manager Paul Doolin now looks for some consistency that will keep them in pursuit for the league title. Latvian international Robert Mezeckis (defender) and Billy Dennehy (winger) are both still sidelined with Achilles and hamstring injuries, but Shane Duggan (midfielder) will be available following suspension. Denis Behan (forward) picked up a knock to his ankle against Galway but it is hoped that he will recover to feature against Pats

After substantial financial losses in the last year, club announced the decision to revert to part-time football for the 2009 season. After loosing some very good players before the league start, Saints have noticed just six wins from 18 games so far and instead the battle for third place and European qualification, club is expecting the fight for avoiding relegation (just two points from the dangerous zone). They have two defeats in a row. Against Shamrock Rovers (home, 1-2) St Pat's had decent chances, mostly in the first half, but Rovers goalkeeper Barry Murphy did well to make several vital saves. Striker Gary Twigg got two chances, he took them both and made alarms ring at Richmond Park. However, the Saints must cope without leading striker and captain Mark Quigley who is out with a broken jaw sustained in the recent match with Drogheda United (0-1 defeat). Mark Leech (striker), Gary Dempsey (midfielder) and Damien Lynch (defender) are all out. Jamie Harris (defender) is struggling with a neck injury but may be passed fit to play. John Lester (midfielder) is suspended and while Dave Partridge (defender) returns from suspension Darragh Ryan (defender) returns from injury to join the squad. It seems Saints won’t attack too much, with five regular missings and the lack of variety in attacking line. A draw would probably satisfy them.

Paul Doolin probably couldn’t find better rival to establish some consistency in the results. Bookmaker predict small number of goals, offering miserable 1.55 for under. I think Cork will win (Pinnacle 1.62) and also from a lead at the half time and choose excellent 2.80 odd.
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Brann - Fredrikstad

Another boring day for betting. Tippeligaen round in Norway will be completed with this game. Few missings on both sides. Odds for home win are not so high, about 1.60. Maybe it is sixth sense, but I think Fredrikstad can make something here. And odd at Pinnacle for Brann is raising. Usually it means they know something that I don't. It is more for little entertainment, than because I have valuable reasons, but go for a draw. 4.04 Pinnacle.

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In Ireland tomorrow  Cork City will face St. Patricks Ath.. I'm waiting the team news and possible bet, supported with analyze depends from that.

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Bohemians - Sligo Rovers

At the half of competition, future champions still can’t be predicted. Bohemians is the main favorite (as usual), but Derry City (a point less) and Cork City (two less) are breathing on the neck. At home, Bohs is more than dominant. Six wins from eight games (one draw and defeat from Cork 0-1), with 16 goals scored and just two conceded! After the unexpected disaster against St. Patricks Athletic on the road (1-3), team reacted positively and scored eight goals in cup victory over Mayfield United last week. Manager Pat Fenlon has almost a full squad to choose from, with no injuries, and only midfielder Graham Carey is out of contention due to a one-match suspension. Tonight’s win would erase the St Pats defeat from their memory. And additional motive is the fact Derry will very probably take three points from their game against Bray Wanderers.

After 16 games played, Sligo sit seventh in the Premier Division table, 15 points behind today’s opponent. They have picked up just nine points from a possible 24 away from home this season, winning just twice, beating Dundalk 2-0 and Derry City 2-1. Into this game lads come after two excellent FAI Cup displays against Cork. After a 2-2 draw on the road, at tuesday, they defeated at home the big favorite 2-1, with both goals scored by excellent Rafael Cretaro plus some fantastic goalkeeping from Richard Brush. But, the victory after the extra time brought a plenty of problems. The missing list is very long. Stephen Parkhouse is long time injured and still out, Gavin Peers and Shaun Holmes injured too, while Jason Noctor and Richard Ryan are suspended! Boss Paul Cooke said in the paper he’ll have only eleven fit players. True or not, five certainly won’t play. And the rest of the crew is exhausted. 

Sligo proved many times that they can fight with the best, but tonight “won’t be their fault”. On the other hand, Bohs is nervous (and focused) because they can’t make a convincing advantage on the table. I don’t think Sligo can put some serious resist here, and going on home win with two, or more goals difference. The best odd is at 888sports, 2.15.

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St. Patrick's Athletic 3 - 1 Bohemians

St. Patrick's Athletic stunned champions Bohemians with a vintage performance to earn a 3-1 win at Richmond Park. 
It was the first time in six visits to Inchicore Bohs have been defeated. More importantly for Pat Fenlon's men, however, is that the result sees their lead at the top of the table reduced to just one point. 
With Cork City having drawn and Derry City having won, the Gypsies lead at the top of the table is now reduced. 
The Saints came at their visitors from the start but it took until the 55th minute for them to get on the scoresheet, Ryan Guy netting a neat finish. 
Saints fans were sensing a shock on the cards and their lead was doubled on 68 minutes when centre half Jason Gavin snuck up in the box to make it 2-0. 
Bohs were stunned and worse was to follow on 76 minutes when John Lester scored a beautiful long range effort to give the home side a 3-0 lead. 
Although Owen Heary managed to pull one back at the death for the champions, it was too little too late for the Gypsies. 

St. Patrick's Athletic: Rogers, Maher, Haverty, Harris, Gavin, Partridge, Lynch, Lester, Guy, Moran, Stevens

Bohemians: Murphy, Murphy, Oman, Powell, Cronin, Brennan, Carey, Keegan, Shelley, Byrne, Fenn, Crowe
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