The stage was set.
Grand weather.
Fantastic surface. Beautiful night for football.
Pity Dundalk weren't interested in playing football.
True they improved when City got bored after missing the penalty.
As I said in an earlier post "Rattled"
Good strong performance from the referee. Just what Dundalk were looking for
Time to update that Dundalk stat I suppose.
Three games against Cork this season.
No wins, No draws, Three loses.
0 goals for, 4 goals against.
Ye're good lads but ye're just not ready for us yet
Now that the fun part is over & jokes aside.
I thought Dundalk did very well for the latter part of the 2nd half.
Even with 10 men they pushed forward in an attempt to get something out of the game.
But what was that 1st half about ?
Trying to kick everything that moved. Pulling down & blocking players off the ball. It ended with Shields trying to break Beattie's leg by going over the ball.
Boyle tried the same tactic on Bennett in the Presidents Cup final. Didn't work then either.
I presume Kenny thought he could intimidate City by getting stuck in or maybe he thought that this would be Corks tactics ?
Cork were the ones who played the football in the 1st half & the earlier part of the 2nd half until that missed penalty.
Credit to Dundalk for coming back with 10 men in the latter part of the game but City are very strong down the middle with Browne & Bennett at center back & Bolger in front of them. Totally different team to that in the Cup Final last season.
Makes you think what might have happened had Dundalk decided to play football earlier ?
Fantastic crowd at the game as well 5,453.
Long long way to go yet but at least this season you have some competition.
Hope everyone got home safely.
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