Simon Collins
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Shamrock Rovers come from two goals down to rescue draw with Derry (opens the original)
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Simon Collins reports from the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium SHAMROCK ROVERS CLAWED back a two-goal deficit to earn a share of the spoils against Derry City at Brandywell to stretch their lead at the top to five points. Ellis Chapman fired Derry into the lead after 90 seconds as Rovers appeared to be suffering from a European hangover. BOOM 💥Ellis Chapman opens the scoring after excellent work by Michael Duffy. pic.twitter.com/Iha0kFXsrO Michael Duffy added a second on 16 minutes but Graham Bu
Cotter and O'Reilly on target as Derry City start Connolly interim spell with victory (opens the original)
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Simon Collins reports from the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium MARK CONNOLLY COULD hardly have dreamt of a better start to his spell as Derry City’s interim manager as the Brandywell club let the shackles off during a comfortable win over bottom-of-the-table Sligo Rovers. Second-half goals from Barry Cotter and Adam O’Reilly clinched a seventh league win of the season, and it could’ve been a much wider margin as both James Clarke and Michael Duffy struck the woodwork. Derry’s Director of Footbal
Derry City's European campaign comes to abrupt end at Brandywell (opens the original)
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DERRY CITY’S EUROPEAN campaign came to an abrupt end at Brandywell Stadium as ex-Bournemouth youth Daniel Adu-Adjei scored the winning goal, seeing HNK Rijeka progress to a Conference League third-round tie against Ilves of Finland. Derry were trailing 1-0 from the first leg in Croatia and three first-half minutes determined their fate in this return leg as Liam Boyce’s close-range strike in the 11th minute was saved superbly by Aleska Todorovic before Adu-Adjei capitalised on a mistake by Camer
Derry City fall to narrow first-leg defeat against Croatian side Rijeka (opens the original)
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HIGHLY-RATED CROATIA international Toni Fruk handed Rijeka a 1-0 victory over Derry City in their Conference League first-leg tie at the Stadion Rujevica. Fresh from his Fifa World Cup campaign with Croatia, the £10 million (€11.72 million)-rated attacking midfielder fired Rijeka ahead six minutes into the second half with a left-footed finish from close range. Up until that point in the tie, the Candystripes had restricted the Croatian side to long-range efforts with neither goalkeeper troubled
Crowd trouble causes 15-minute delay as CSKA Sofia eliminate Derry from Europa League (opens the original)
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DERRY CITY CRASHED out of the Europa League after a 5-3 aggregate defeat to CSKA Sofia in the first round qualifier as the return tie at Brandywell was overshadowed by trouble in the stands. Hundreds of Derry fans, including women and children, were forced onto the pitch for their own safety after visiting CSKA fans threw missiles towards them in the Southend Park Stand. The match was delayed for almost 15 minutes after Ellis Chapman drew Derry level with his first goal for the club two minutes
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