Derry City 4
Bohemians 0
Peter Hutton celebrated his contract extension at Derry City by leading his team to another scintilating win, this time against Bohemians.
It is now ten goals in two games and four consecutive league wins for Peter Hutton’s team, who simply swept their Dublin opponents aside with a devastating display of attacking football.
Two goals apiece from Michael Duffy and Rory Patterson ensured another brilliant win for Derry who are in sensational form at present.
Bohemians came to the Brandywell unbeaten in six games and they seemed set to give Derry a game as they started well before it all unravelled.
Bohs started brightly and they targeted Mark Timlin as a potential weak point in City’s defence. That tactic almost bore fruit just ten minutes in as Stephen Beattie picked out the run of Devaney on the right.
Devaney sped past Timlin and into the penalty area and although the near post cross was intercepted again by Molloy, the Derry captain almost sliced the ball into his own net, only for Gerard Doherty to spare his blushes with a save he knew very little about.
An even better chance came and went for Derry just two minutes later as the Bohs defence were caught flat-footed again, Michael Duffy finding himself through on goal after a simple ball over the top. Duffy, fresh from his hat trick at UCD, struck a shot which bobbled past Delaney but Aidan Price got back in time to hook the ball off the line to deny the Derry youngster.
A good period of pressure followed from the home side and they got their goal eventually.
Duffy’s corner was allowed to bounce inside the Bohs area and although Patterson mis-hit his first effort, he got a second chance when Dooley took the ball away from Delaney and played it back to his team mate, Patterson lashing it high into the net left-footed to give Derry the lead.
By the half hour Bohs were in deep, deep trouble as another tremendous passing move saw them opened up again as Derry raced into a 2-0 lead.
Barry McNamee was the conductor of the move, sweeping forward from midfield and he drew the Bohs defence towards him before passing the ball off to Patterson on the edge of the area, the striker’s first time pass swept into the net by Duffy who celebrated his fourth goal in two games.
The third goal duly came three minutes before the break. This time Duffy popped up on the right wing, and he simply drove at the Bohs defence, before cutting the ball onto his left foot and drilling it low beyond Delaney to put Derry three in the ascendancy.
The second half was straight forward fare as Derry coasted.
Anto Murphy sent a header straight at Doherty from yet another Bohs setplay but that was as good as it got for Bohs, who were soon restarting the game again following another sublime Derry City goal.
Patterson and McNamee linked brilliantly again in midfield with the latter starting the move which ended in Lowry playing Patterson through on goal on the left hand side and the striker sweeping the ball brilliantly past Delaney.
It was just brilliant all round from Derry.
Teams
Derry: Gerard Doherty, Barry Molloy, Ryan McBride, Barry McNamee, Danny Ventre, Patrick McEleney (Philip Lowry 41’), Rory Patterson (Ryan Curran 70’), Michael Duffy, Mark Timlin, Stephen Dooley (Josh Tracey 75’), Aaron Barry.
Bohemians: Dean Delaney, Derek Pender, Roberto Lopes, Aidan price, Dinny Corrcoran (Jason Byrne 60’), Eoin Warren (Dave Mulcahy 76’), Paddy Kavanagh, Dan Byrne, Kevin Devaney, Anto Murphy, Stephen Beattie.
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