THE LOI WRAP-UP: Drogs claim derby crown | Pats rescue late point | Longford upset Cork | OFF THE BALL
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Welcome along to this week's edition of the LOI Wrap-Up. I'm Ross Honigan. On today's episode, draw to claim Laertrone, the Saints survive Laid-On, Longford shock the Rebels, and the LOI teams in Europe prepare for their second legs. But first, St. Patrick's Athletic almost saw their title challengers slip away in the ORC last night until they secured a late point against Waterford in a one-all draw. Conan Noonan put the Blues one up late into the first half and Graeme Cotland's side almost had a penalty before that until it was reversed by the assistant referee. Wilderford could not hold on however with the Saints pushing for an equaliser until the end which they got after Aidan Keane was brought down in injury time.
The Pats forward converted to keeping his side in the running against their double rivals at the head of the table. Pats manager Stephen Kenny spoke to club media following the draw.
The difficult opponents tonight, the front two, front three really, with two and a number 10, you know, and obviously, they're quite direct, you have to deal with it and they cause us problems, you know, they cause us problems but we kept fighting and all of the substitutes, all five substitutes made a good contribution and helped us get back in the game and that was important.
St Patrick's Athletic still sit in third on 42 points with the game in hand over Bowles and Rovers while Waterford are in ninth, one point ahead of Sligo Rovers who play this evening. It's a big weekend for the wee county, but before the Gaelic footballers head to Croke Park this afternoon, county led have put on a show as Draw Day United took the Bragging Whites over Dundalk at Oriole Park last night. The Lily Whites took the lead through Jamie O'Ruby in the first half, but it was a second half brace from Dublin O'Shane Farrow which brought the Boynton Siders their first derby win in the league for over two years. Finney Perthes was alongside Stephen Dover for a live and exclusive commentary last night and had this to say at full time.
Yeah I don't think anyone expected even 35 minutes into the game Dundalk were totally in control, they were dominant, they were harder working, he showed more energy and more legs and all of a sudden Drodden inched their way back into it. Kevin said calm, he didn't overly make a change, once Dundalk never got to second all of a sudden Drodden got back into it. Brilliant from Shane Farrell, first free kick is a thing of beauty, goes over the wall, disputed free kick. But the second is an outstanding finish. Enough and good enough to win any game of football. And it was enough for Drogheda to win this game of football. Outstanding from them. They were much, much the better side. And all sort of strength and depth off the bench has probably affected them tonight.
Yep. This is going to be a tough one for Ciarán Kilduff and his men because this is their third defeat in a row. It's their worst one, really, since they come back into the top flight. But... They are now on 35.6 off St. Patrick's Athletic, who are still trailing down a waterfront, but what's he going to do now to turn things around? I suppose after the blow of losing on Kenny as well. Yeah, I think he's got to get a couple of reinforcements in. I'm not sure there's the money here, and that's okay if it's not, because... you can't overspend Dundalk have sort of made a lot of mistakes over the last number of years so you have to do things the right way so I'm okay with that the glass is half full in Oriel Park the glass is half full fans and people around need to know that the 35 points the 10 points clear a lot of Dundalk fans feel that the referee hasn't been overly good tonight I'm not sure he's been overly good to draw to either to be fair so a really strong performance from both teams
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