Derry City back to winning ways in Limerick
Limerick 0
First half goals from Barry McNamee and Mark Timlin sent Derry City on their way to a comfortable win over Limerick at Jackman Park.
This was the perfect fixture for Peter Hutton’s team, who have had trouble finding the net of late. This game against bottom of the table Limerick went as the Derry City boss would have hoped as his team cruised to a win, with the game effectively over as a contest by half time.
The deadlock was broken on 24 minutes when Barry McNamee fed a ball through the Limerick defence to put Patrick McEleney through on goal. McEleney had the presence of mind to take the ball around O’Donnell, but in his desperation to stop the Derry man, he fouled McEleney, gifting a penalty to the visitors. With striker Anthony Elding on the bench, it was left to McNamee to take the kick and he showed great composure as he sent O’Donnell the wrong way to give Derry the lead.
And it only got worse for Martin Russell’s team as Derry doubled their lead right on half time. Again McNamee was at the heart of the goal as his clever reverse pass found Timlin, who got a yard and curled the ball sumptuously past O’Donnell and into the corner of the net.
The second half was uneventful as Limerick failed to fire with Derry coming close to putting gloss on the scoreline with McNamee and Lowry coming close in the latter stages.