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\nDouglas James-Taylor scores a penalty for Bohemians<\/p>\n
A last-minute Connor Parsons goal brought Bohemians palpable relief ahead of next week’s second leg in Gibraltar as they laboured to this victory over St Joseph\u2019s at a sun-drenched Dalymount Park.<\/p>\n
Despite having to survive one or two scares, Alan Reynolds\u2019 Gypsies dominated the ball for much of the night but struggled to create clear-cut chances until late on as European football returned to the old Phibsborough venue for the first time in 14 years.<\/p>\n
After a frustrating first half, it eventually came good midway through the second thanks to the energy of Ross Tierney in winning a penalty which Doulas James-Taylor converted.<\/p>\n
Substitute Parsons then added the much coveted second goal, diving in to head home skipper Dawson Devoy\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n
Collie Whelan might have delivered a third deep in added time but for a fine save by the visitors\u2019 substitute goalkeeper Gato Romero.<\/p>\n
Patrick Hickey returned to the centre of their defence following suspension, while James-Taylor was preferred up top in place of leading scorer Whelan in two changes from last Friday\u2019s win at Drogheda United, as Bohemians started on the front foot.<\/p>\n
But it was St Joseph\u2019s who got the first sight of goal on the counterattack from a sloppy Bohemians corner on nine minutes, Julian Valarino completely missing his kick from Kingsley\u2019s Fobi superb diagonal ball.<\/p>\n
Their third corner of the game brought Bohs’ first real chance, Senan Mullen heading over from Markuss Strods\u2019 delivery.<\/p>\n
Again, though, lax play gifted the visitors an opening at the other end on 17 minutes.<\/p>\n
A hesitant Strods gifted the ball to Valarino who picked out Francis Ferron. Paul Walters got down to make a parry save with the loose ball scrambled to safety.<\/p>\n
Bohemians were struggling to put any cohesion to their play as St Joseph\u2019s back five stood firm as the home faithful became unsettled as the first half wore on.<\/p>\n
Save for a tame Harry Vaughan header, comfortably gathered by Bradley Banda; the winger\u2019s subsequent drive deflected out for fourth corner and a Jordan Flores shot down the throat of the St Joseph\u2019s goalkeeper, Bohemians had produced precious little to seriously worry the visitors.<\/p>\n
With midfielder Sadou Diallo on for Mullen in a reshuffle that saw Flores move to left-back, Bohemians simply needed to be better from the resumption.<\/p>\n
They certainly enjoyed more of the ball as they probed for openings with St Joseph\u2019s getting everyone behind the ball.<\/p>\n
With little materialising in front of goal, the frustration mounted. Until, that is, the arrival of the 58th minute breakthrough.<\/p>\n
\nDouglas James-Taylor scores a penalty for Bohemians<\/p>\n
Vaughan\u2019s ball in from the right to Tierney saw the Bohs attacker tripped by the retreating Bakary Essay Diedhiou inside the penalty area.<\/p>\n
The Danish referee didn\u2019t hesitate in pointing to the spot. James-Taylor rifled emphatically to the net past the despairing dive of Banda from 12 yards.<\/p>\n
Pressing for a second goal, the hard-running Tierney almost delivered on 81 minutes.<\/p>\n
Bursting forward past two defenders, a one-two with Whelan teed up the shot which he drilled agonisingly wide.<\/p>\n
But the second goal you feel they will need ahead of next week duly arrived in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n
Diallo and Devoy interchanged with the captain\u2019s dinked cross finding Parsons who bravely headed past Romero.<\/p>\n
Bohemians: Paul Walters; Darragh Power, Patrick Hickey, Sam Todd, Senan Mullen (Sadou Diallo h-t); Dawson Devoy, Jordan Flores; Markuss Strods (Dayle Rooney 65), Ross Tierney, Harry Vaughan (Connor Parsons 65); Douglas James-Taylor (Collie Whelan 76).<\/p>\n
St Joseph\u2019s: Bradley Banda (Gato Romero 64); Kingsley Fobi, Geovanno Barba, Javi Paul, Sebastien Lauture, Julian Valarino; Bakary Essamay Diedhiou (Evan De Haro 83), Juanma; Marco Rosa (Javi Moreno 70); Francis Ferron (Pirulo 65), Alvaro Cascajo (Pablo Rodriguez h-t).<\/p>\n
Referee: Lasse Laebel Graagaard (Denmark).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A last-minute Connor Parsons goal brought Bohemians palpable relief ahead of next week’s second leg in Gibraltar as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-541652","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\/541652","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=541652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}