{"id":17511,"date":"2025-09-12T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/17511\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:04:07","slug":"league-of-ireland-derry-city-edge-past-bohemians-in-seven-goal-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/17511\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Ireland: Derry City edge past Bohemians in seven-goal thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a slow start to the second half, the game erupted back into life as Bohs levelled on 66 minutes when captain Jordan Flores stole in at the back post to slide home Dayle Rooney&#8217;s ball across goal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the visitors responded just two minutes later when O&#8217;Reilly hammered a shot into the bottom corner from a Winchester pass for his second of the evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four minutes later, James-Taylor notched his second after Maher spilled Ross Tierney&#8217;s free-kick delivery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But with the game continuing to swing, Akinyemi capped a frenetic spell with the winner, heading home at the back post from Duffy&#8217;s cross. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The drama continued when Boyce was shown a second yellow card on 77 minutes for a lunge on Clarke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bohs pushed for a late leveller but were repeatedly denied by an inspired Maher as Derry held on for a hugely entertaining win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The result moves Lynch&#8217;s side, who next host Shelbourne on 19 September, seven points behind leaders Shamrock Rovers, who have two games in hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a slow start to the second half, the game erupted back into life as Bohs levelled on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-17511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}