Derry City 2 Cork City 1 | Airtricity League

Derry City 2 Cork City 1

Friday, 20 March 2009 12:29

TEENAGER Aaron Nash was hailed at hero on his Derry City debut when the striker stunned a frustrated Cork City at the Brandywell.

Indeed, it was an amazing night for the “Candy Stripes” who had trailed 1-0 until the 90th minute when a double blast stunned Paul Doolin’s men who will struggle to come to terms with this defeat.

With the visitors attempting to play down the clock, Stephen Kenny’s side struck with devastating effect as Cork cruelly lost a game they deserved something from.

In fact one point from a possible nine will not help confidence levels of Leeside but, in all fairness, they didn’t deserve this.

Thomas Stewart, Mark Farren and Ciaran Martyn were all presented with glorious scoring chances but while Dan Connor did well to parry Stewart’s effort in the 11th minute, both Farren and Martyn failed to hit the target when well placed..

With both teams struggling to create anything of note after the break, Derry City were made to pay for their failure to find the net in the first half when Cork broke the deadlock against the run of play in the 67th minute.

And it proved a highly controversial strike with the home side screaming for an offside decision from the referee’s assistant which didn’t come.

Derry’s Gareth McGlynn lost possession in a vital area, Healy cut in the ball in low from the left to find Cork’s Latvian striker, Silgailis totally unmarked at he side-footed the ball home at the back post.

The goal seemed to spark life into the home late and Martyn went close to equalising in the 74th minute but his shot screamed wide of the target from 18 yards.

But then all hell broke loose when Derry netted twice in the space of a minute.

Ciaran Martyn hooked the ball home following a goalmouth scramble in the 90th minute before substitute, Aaron Nash, in his first senior appearance headed a Thomas Stewart cross home to stun Cork.

Derry City – Doherty; O’Brien (Scullion, 75 mins.), McChrystal, Hutton, Gray; McGlynn, Martyn, Higgins, Kearney; Farren (Nash, 79 mins.), Stewart.

Cork City – Connor; Horgan, Murray, O’Halloran, Murphy; Lordan (O’Neill, 62), Gamble, Healy, Dennehy; Kudozovic (Behan, 79), Silgailis.

Referee – Mr. D. Hanney (Dublin).

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