There was not a lot for either set of supporters to get excited about at Tallaght, other than the hope of improvement.
Dundalk were solid defensively from No1 to No6 with Daniel Cleary having an exceptional debut at centre back.
While pre-season has been significantly disrupted for many of the Dundalk squad, a number of them showed enough to be optimistic about their potential impact - Pat Hoban and Marco Tagbajumi in particular. Other than Michael Duffy - who roasted Boyle throughout, but especially in the first half - there was almost no attacking creativity from Benson, McGrath, Murray or Connolly and Adorjan when they came on
For Rovers, Finn and Clarke can hardly fail to improve the team, unless Bradley continues to insist on his primitive tactics.
I still can't decide whether Bradley is a master psychologist or totally deluded when he heaped praise on Ethan Boyle in a post-match interview
Contrast that with this snippet from Paul O'Hehir in the MirrorI think Ethan showed tonight why we brought him here - he was defensively unbelievable
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soc...wsApp_AppShareWinger Michael Duffy was livey down the left and had the measure of right-back Ethan Boyle who found the going tough for the second game running.
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