Bray Wanderers 3 Cork City 2 | Airtricity League

Bray Wanderers 3 Cork City 2

Saturday, 10 October 2009 09:30

Bray Wanderers came back from the dead when a dramatic winner from Dave Mulcahy in the fifth minute of added time gave the Seagulls three vital points in their desperate bid to avoid relegation against Cork City at the Carlisle Grounds last night.

It was former Cork player Mulcahy's second goal of the night as he was also on target on 87 minutes for the equaliser after a Jake Kelly penalty on 79 minutes had given Bray hope.

Cork City stay two points clear of fourth-placed Derry City with five matches to play in the race for a place in next season's Europa League. And they looked to be cruising to a comfortable victory after goals either side of half time from Dan Murray and Fahrudin Kuduzovic had given them a deserved lead. But it all went wrong for Paul Doolin's men in a a crazy final 16 minutes after defender Dan Murphy was sent off in the 79th minute.

his was the Bray's first win in five games and even though they stay bottom of the table, Eddie Gormley's team have given themselves a real chance of staying in the top flight.

With their seventh corner of the game City took an inevitable lead on 41 minutes when a corner by Billy Dennehy on the right was flicked on by Kuduzovic for skipper Dan Murray to head home from close range for his third league goal of the season.

Cork had a somewhat fortunate penalty on 52 minutes when referee Tom Connolly adjudged that substitute Dave Webster had taken down Silagailis inside the box after what seemed a fair challenge for the ball. Kuduzovic made no mistake with the spot kick for his seventh league goal of the season.

Murphy was shown the red card on 79 minutes for handling the ball inside the box after a shot from Bray striker Paul Byrne was blocked by 'keeper Connor. The resulting penalty was comfortably dispatched by substitute Kelly.

Then Mulcahy grabbed all the glory when first heading home from close range for the equaliser on 87 minutes after Byrne had flicked on a long throw by Gareth Cronin.

And Mulcahy made it a memorable double against his old club with a tremendous volley from 16 yards after the Cork defence failed to clear a Dave Webster throw-in. The Bray survival dream lives on.

Bray Wanderers - O'Connor; Pender, Foran (Webster 45), Deans, Cronin; McCabe (Kelly 40), D.Mulcahy, Shields, Brennan, Massey (Tresson 61); Byrne.

Cork City - Connor; O'Halloran, Long (S.Mulcahy 40), Murray, Murphy; O'Neill, Lordan, Duggan, Dennehy; Siliagalis (Cambridge 67), Kudizovic (Horgan 80).

Referee - Tom Connolly (Dublin).

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