Derry City 1-1 Cork City
Derry City and Cork City will have to do it all over again after their FAI Cup quarter-final ended in a 1-1 draw at a rain swept Brandywell on Friday night.
Ryan McBride’s fifth minute header was cancelled out by a Mark O’Sullivan strike on 49 minutes, meaning they will meet again at Turner’s Cross in the replay on Monday evening.
Cork missed a glorious chance on three minutes when a unmarked Darren Dennehy was unable to get his close range effort on target, after his brother Billy had picked him out with an inch perfect right wing free-kick.
Derry went straight up the other end and took the lead on five minutes when Patrick McEleney’s super corner into the near post was powerfully headed home by skipper Ryan McBride.
A super last ditch block by Aaron Barry on 27 minutes meant Billy Dennehy’s shot from just inside the box flew narrowly wide.
Right on the stroke of half-time Billy Dennehy went close again, but his low free-kick sailed just past Gerard Doherty’s right hand post.
The visitor’s levelled things on 49 minutes after Mark O’Sullivan made no mistake blasting home from just inside the box after Doherty had kept out Karl Sheppard’s initial effort.
Cork continued to dominate things after their equaliser and they went close again on 58 minutes but Sheppard’s near post header was off target.
Derry had a little respite and on 71 minutes but McEleney’s 20 yard strike was kept out by a fully stretched McNulty.
McEleney was in the thick of the action moments later when he played in Mark Timlin down the left and his teasing cross failed to pick out a team-mate and flashed across the six yard box.
McNulty was a lucky man on 87 minutes when he somehow deflected McEleney’s stinging drive around the post, but in truth the keeper didn’t know much about it.
Derry City: Doherty, McLaughlin, McBride, Barry, Jarvis; Dooley (Curran 80), Cornwall, McNamee, P McEleney; Timlin, Quigley (Morrison 65).
Cork City: McNulty, Bennett, D Dennehy, Murray (Dunleavy 76), Gaynor, McSweeney, Sheppard, B Dennehy, Miller, O’Sullivan, Buckley.
Referee: Paul McLaughlin (Donegal).
