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\nSean Hoare of St Patrick’s Athletic is tackled by Odhr\u00e1n Casey of Shelbourne<\/p>\n
First half goals from Anthony Olusanya, on his full debut, and James Brown proved enough to earn St Patrick’s Athletic victory in a fractious Dublin derby with Shelbourne at Tolka Park which saw the brandishing of four red cards.<\/p>\n
Two of those were to the Shelbourne bench with head coachcJohn Russell and then strength and conditioning coach Mauro Martins dismissed.<\/p>\n
St Patrick\u2019s assistant coach Brian Gartland was sent off in the second half incident involving Russell before Shels then also had striker Rodrigo Freitas sent off for a second booking late on.<\/p>\n
The win consolidates St Patrick\u2019s second place in the table, though they remain seven points behind leaders Shamrock Rovers.<\/p>\n
Amid their high profile Conference League tie with Ajax, Shelbourne stay fifth with plenty to do to qualify for Europe next season.<\/p>\n
Shels started brightly, moving the ball at pace as they stretched St Pat\u2019s defensively, Kerr McInroy having the first shot in anger bravely blocked by Sean Hoare.<\/p>\n
It proved a false dawn for the home side as St Pat\u2019s soon came alive to punish abject defending on seven minutes.<\/p>\n
Having won a corner from Ed Beach’s fine save, Aidan Keena’s delivery was allowed to travel across the face of the Shels goal to find Olusanya completely unmark for the Finland international to tap in the easiest goal he might ever score.<\/p>\n
Shelbourne should have been further behind just past the half hour following more sloppy defending.<\/p>\n
Odhran Casey’s attempted back pass fell way short allowing Olusanya a free shot which, to Casey and Shels\u2019 relief, he contrived to blaze wastefully over the top.<\/p>\n
There was no such reprieve for a disjointed Shels when St Pat\u2019s did double their lead on 34 minutes.<\/p>\n
Olusanya set up Chris Forrester who drilled his shot off a post. Nobody tracked wingback Brown arriving in on the right who gleefully side-footed home.<\/p>\n
Dan Kelly might have got Shels back into the game but for the save of the half from Joseph Anang a minute before the interval.<\/p>\n
\nSean Hoare of St Patrick’s Athletic is tackled by Odhr\u00e1n Casey of Shelbourne<\/p>\n
What looked a handball by Forrester from a Kelly shot then had Shels’ appeals for a penalty not entertained by Dublin referee Paul Norton as they trooped off for the break frustrated by that, if not their overall disappointing first half display.<\/p>\n
With Sean Moore and JJ Lunney on for Ali Coote and Jack Henry-Francis, Shels had far more about them from the resumption.<\/p>\n
And they were inches from getting a goal back on two occasions inside 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
First a mistake by St Pat\u2019s captain Joe Redmond saw Kelly skip away to rifle against the bar, Evan Caffrey volleying the rebound wide.<\/p>\n
Moments later another Shels attack resulted in Moore blasting against the crossbar.<\/p>\n
The action then spilled over between the dugouts when Shels\u2019 Russell went to retrieve a ball close to the St Pat\u2019s bench.<\/p>\n
Gartland confronted him resulting in a bout of shoving. When tempers eased Norton showed both Russell and Gartland a red card.<\/p>\n
With the main action having resumed back on the pitch, James Norris got Shels back into the game on 70 minutes, scooping home at the back post from the lively Milan Mbeng\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n
The game then saw two further red cards in quick succession, first to the Shels\u2019 bench again when Martins was dismissed for for dissent, his second booking.<\/p>\n
Yellow-carded for protesting the penalty incident late in the first half, striker Freitas then saw a second card for a late challenge on Hoare and was sent off.<\/p>\n
Though Shelbourne pressed right till the end of six added minutes, St Pat\u2019s held firm to record a second win at Tolka Park in a season for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n
Shelbourne: Ed Beach; Milan Mbeng, Sam Bone (Paddy Barrett 71), Odhran Casey, James Norris (Kameron Ledwidge 71); Ali Coote (Sean Moore h-t), Kerr McInroy, Jack Henry-Francis (JJ Lunney h-t), Evan Caffrey; Rodrigo Freitas, Dan Kelly (Will Jarvis 83).<\/p>\n
St Patrick\u2019s Athletic: Joseph Anang; Joe Redmond, Sean Hoare, Luke Turner; Jamie Lennon; James Brown, Darragh Nugent, Chris Forrester (Anto Breslin 76), Jay McClelland (Barry Baggley 76); Anthony Olusanya (Ryan Sheridan 66), Aidan Keena (Ryan Edmondson 60).<\/p>\n
Referee: Paul Norton (Dublin).<\/p>\n
Attendance: 4,511.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First half goals from Anthony Olusanya, on his full debut, and James Brown proved enough to earn St…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-588594","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\/588594","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=588594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}