Supersub Dipo Akinyemi netted with his very first touch late on as Derry City took all three points from a tepid encounter with Shelbourne at Tolka Park.<\/p>\n
Barry Cotter had opened the scoring midway through the first half but Shels returned fire as John Martin levelled things up shorlty after the break.<\/p>\n
Akinyemi was to have the final say, however, volleying the ball crisply past Wessel Speel after Shelbourne failed to clear their lines from a free kick into the box.<\/p>\n
The first chance fell to Shelbourne defender Sam Bone in the opening minutes as he connected with a corner but his header from close range was straight at Edward Beach.<\/p>\n
And the home side’s early dominance continued as a loose touch from Carl Winchester almost sent Harry Wood clear and the captain was booked for a nip on the heels of the winger.<\/p>\n
Derry grew into the game, however, and were somewhat controversially awarded a corner when midfielder Adam O\u2019Reilly\u2019s low drive cleared the post.<\/p>\n
Shels should have defended the set-piece better, however, and the could only clear the ball to Barry Cotter, the wing-back controlling the ball and smashing it high into the corner of the net.<\/p>\n
Shels came back into the game and John Martin nodded an Evan Caffrey cross behind before Kerr McInroy saw his scissor kick easily clear the crossbar.<\/p>\n
The Reds continued to create and Caffrey saw a shot from a tight angle pushed away by Beach while, at the other end, Josh Thomas\u2019 long range effort was well-saved by Wessel Speel.<\/p>\n
Thomas had another chance moment later as he was played inside by Cotter but again Speel was equal to his well-struck effort.<\/p>\n
But Shels came out with renewed intent after the break and levelled inside eight minutes as striker John Martin turned home Wood\u2019s cross from close range.<\/p>\n
Bone could have completed the turnaround when he found space at the back post to connect with a corner but he could not adjust his feet quickly enough to steer the ball on target.<\/p>\n
Adam O\u2019Reilly put a free kick well over before more good work from Shelbourne saw Evan Caffrey\u2019s low cross turned goalward by Wood, but Beach got down smartly to save.<\/p>\n
That proved to be the turning point as Akinyemi replaced Thomas and netted with his first touch on the volley after Shels once again fell asleep from a set piece.<\/p>\n
Fellow sub James Olayinka could have doubled the lead moments later as a loose ball fell to him in the box he scooped his shot high and wide of the goal.<\/p>\n
Akinyemi could have settled in the final moments as he broke down the right hand side, cut inside and shot low at Speel.<\/p>\n
Derry kept their composure, however, and closed out the game to take a much-needed victory home from Drumcondra.<\/p>\n
Shelbourne: Wessel Speel; Evan Caffrey (Se\u00e1n Gannon 75), Paddy Barrett, Sam Bone, Kameron Ledwidge; Kerr McInroy (Ali Coote 65), Jack Henry-Francis (Rodrido Freitas 75), JJ Lunney; Harry Wood, Daniel Kelly (Will Jarvis 46), John Martin (Se\u00e1n Boyd 81).<\/p>\n
Derry City: Edward Beach; Barry Cottter (Henry Rylah 75), Conor Barr, Patrick McClean, Jamie Stott,Brandon Fleming; Adam O\u2019Reilly (James Olayinka 64); Carl Wichester, Ben Doherty (Cameron Dummigan 64); James Clarke (Darragh Markey 64), Josh Thomas (Afolabi Akinyemi 70).<\/p>\n
Referee: Aaron O\u2019Dowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supersub Dipo Akinyemi netted with his very first touch late on as Derry City took all three points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-404363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404363","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=404363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}