Monaghan and Boyle goals ease Derry past Bohemians
Bohemians 0
Derry City 2
FAI Cup
Daire Walsh
Goals from Harry Monaghan and Nathan Boyle were crucial at Dalymount Park last night, when Derry City booked their place in the last-eight of the FAI Cup at the expense of Bohemians.
Candystripes winger Ronan Curtis forced a fine stop from Dean Delany on 17 minutes, before Mark Quigley rattled the crossbar from a pin-point delivery by Gypsies captain Derek Pender.
Keith Long’s charges were certainly taking the game to their Brandywell counterparts, but it was the visitors who broke the deadlock after 39 minutes – when midfielder Monaghan found the Bohs net from close-range.
Momentum was with the five-time Cup winners when the action resumed, and within three minutes of the restart they had doubled their advantage with a superb finish – via the left-hand post – by impressive striker Boyle.
Bohs – who won this competition as recently as 2008 – were now left with a mountain to climb, and although substitute Dan Byrne and Paddy Kavanagh went close for the north Dublin outfit, they ultimately couldn’t break down the disciplined Derry City defence.
BOHEMIANS: Delany; Pender (Hayes, 33 mins), Lopes, Best (D Byrne 45), Fitzgerald; Lopes, Wearen; Kavanagh, Buckley, Kelly (O’Halloran 54); Quigley.
DERRY CITY: G Doherty; McDermott, Vemmelund, Castells (B Doherty 39), Jarvis; McCormack, Monaghan; Shubert (Patterson 64), Ward (McNamee 79), Curtis; Boyle.
Referee: T Connolly (Dublin).