‘Magnificent Seven’ for City
Derry's Patrick McEleney celebrates scoring the opening goal
DERRY City produced a professional performance with his demolition of Distillery at the Brandywell last night to cruise into the quarter-finals of the Setanta Sports Cup, WRITES ARTHUR DUFFY.
And, if the truth be told, the home side could and should have won on an even more comprehensive scoreline.
Boasting a particularly healthy 4-0 advantage from the first leg at New Grosvenor 10 days ago, one couldn’t see Lisburn Distillery get back into this tie.
So when Derry midfielder, Patrick McEleney netted a superb strike in the 22nd minute, this tie was finally decided as a contest.
Distillery keeper, Billy Brennan, was regularly in the action and the 1-0 half-time scoreline would have been respectable from a Ballyskeagh point of view.
However, after the break, it was almost total one-way traffic with John Cunningham’s side regularly placed on the back foot.
Stephen McLaughlin made it 2-0 for the home side in the 59th minute before Rory Patterson, whose first leg hat-trick more or less decided this encounter, netted Derry’s third to give the North-West side a 7-0 aggregate victory.
Derry City: Doherty, Madden (McCallion, 74), S. McEleney, McBride (McNamee, h-t), Crossan, P. McEleney, Molloy, Higgins, McLaughlin (Morrison, 64), Patterson, McDaid.
Lisburn Distillery: Brennan, Callaghan, Traynor, Hunter, Thompson, Gawley, Cooling, Gardiner (Larmour, 74), Davidson (Hughes, 60), Garrett (Ferguson, 49) Hall.
Referee: Arnold Hunter (Belfast)
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