LOI LATE NIGHT: ‘A contender for game of the season!’ | Buoyant Bohs fans just like Dublin busses
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I'm Ben Symes. I'm delighted to say that I'm joined by the ever-present Shane Keegan. Shane, how are you doing? Ben, how are you getting on? I'm very good, Shane. I'm absolutely freezing. Just got back to my car coming out of an absolutely thrilling game here in Talca Park. I don't know if you got the chance to watch it at home. But my word, what a game of football. Well, Ben, it was one of those nights where you obviously had two absolute crackers on on the same night. So you've got to make a choice which one you're going to give your primary focus to. And let's say you made the right choice, I made the wrong choice. Because, no, I got the underwhelming Shamrock Rovers-Derry game, whereas it appears you have got one of the games of the season.
I just finished my match report there when I was leaving. And I think I said twice in it that he's potentially already a candidate for a game of the season. And not only game of the season. We've seen what is already probably going to be a goal of the season, contender as well. Look, we'll get into it over the course of the next while, but an absolutely superb evening of football here in Talkback. It literally had everything you could ever want, really, from a football game. Just very quickly before we talk about the games, we're into the results very, very quickly. So Ngoi, Dundalk came back, they were leading early on, and then Ngoi went ahead. Dundalk late, well not late, not as late as we saw here in Drum Condor, but about the 80th minute from Bobby Burns to make it 2-1 there between Ngoi and Ided.
and Dundalk, Bohemians, another, another win, for Alan Reynolds side, 1-0, away to Waterford, Sam Todd, a man who, wasn't even named, in the starting team, originally when the teams, were announced, about an hour before, of course the game, I was at just there, Shelburne 2, St. Patrick's Athletic 3, and the other big one, of the night, Shamrock Rovers 1, Derry City 0. Results from the First Division. Bray Wanderers 2. Athlontown 1. The Cork Derby finished 1-1 between Cork City and Cove Ramblers. Finn Harps 1. Wexford 1. Treaty United 2. Kerry 2. Shane, we have a couple of requests already coming in, but do you want to just talk me through, maybe first of all, what happened in that Shamrock Rovers game?
A huge game between two sides who we probably thought were two of the teams going for the title at the start of the year. Yeah, I suppose the short answer to your question, what happened, the answer is not a lot. Look, reality is here that Shamrock Rovers won this game probably more comfortably than the scoreline suggests and managed to do that without ever coming out of third gear. I mean, this was, you know, we've had concerns about Derry so far this year and I'm not quite fully clicking. This was a dreadful performance, Ben. I mean, like Ed McGinty could have stayed at home for the night and Derry weren't. So they literally didn't register a shot on target. Rovers, as I say, they were decent in patches.
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