{"id":576095,"date":"2026-07-30T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576095\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:00:11","slug":"lacklustre-derry-city-exit-europe-after-rijeka-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576095\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacklustre Derry City exit Europe after Rijeka defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derry City, backed by a rapturous home crowd, dominated the opening exchanges of the contest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Candystripes really should have levelled the contest on aggregate early on when Michael Duffy and Ellis Chapman combined to set up Liam Boyce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the striker watched his effort from 10 yards saved by the outstretched Aleksa Todorovic.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derry were made to rue their missed opportunities as Adu-Adjei latched onto a poor back-pass from Cameron Dummigan and raced clear to finish superbly beyond Brian Maher to double the visitors&#8217; aggregate advantage after just 14 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The goal knocked the stuffing out of Tiernan Lynch&#8217;s side as the Croatians started to get into their groove and control both the ball and the tempo of the contest.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Candystripes needed a spark in the second half but it never arrived and the visitors could have doubled their lead when Adu-Adjei shot wide before heading off target from point-blank-range. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Duffy had a chance from a free-kick, but Derry&#8217;s European exploits ended with a relative whimper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derry City, backed by a rapturous home crowd, dominated the opening exchanges of the contest. The Candystripes really&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-576095","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\/576095","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=576095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}