Bohemians produced a tremendous display to secure a fully deserved win at Derry City thanks to Dawson Devoy's outstanding second half strike.
The Dalymount Park men should have in truth won by a bigger margin, as Derry again struggled to get anything going and boss Tiernan Lynch has already got problems as his new look team continues to labour in the opening three matches.
The Brandywell men gave goalkeeper Edward Beach a debut, despite only joining on-loan from Kilmarnock on Thursday, while Ben Doherty and Jamie Stott came into the starting line-up replacing duo Adam O'Reilly and Rob Slevin, who dropped to the bench.
Bohs suffered an injury set-back in the warm-up with frontman Douglas James-Taylor having to be replaced by Harry Vaughan.
The change didn't seem to harm Bohs as they had the first chance early on as Colm Whelan’s left wing cross found Ross Tierney and although he failed to connect with the ball properly, his close range effort hit the post, before City cleared.
On 37 minutes a neat cut-back Vaughan found Senan Mullen, but his left footed strike through a few players, was booted away by Beach.
The woodwork came to Bohs' rescue minutes later as Doherty's 20-yard shot was deflected into James Clarke's path inside the box, the ex-Bohs man cut inside from the right, but his toe poke shot came back off the post.
The first chance of the second-half came to the visitors as a Dayle Rooney left wing corner picked out Patrick Hickey at the near post, but the Bohs centre-back's glancing header clipped the crossbar.
Moments later Chorazka did well to keep out Carl Winchester's superb 25 yard drive, after the midfielder's sweetly struck effort was straight at the keeper.
The deadlock was broken in stunning fashion as Dawson Devoy's 25 yard free-kick from the left hand side of the box flew high into Beach's top right hand corner, despite the keeper's best attempts at trying to keep the ball out.
Soon after more good play down the right ended with Tierney picking out substitute Connor Parsons, but the substitute's tame shot was straight at Beach.
Bohs went close to adding a second on 75 minutes but Rooney's low shot was well kept out by Beach and the big Welsh keeper denied the midfielder again moments later.
With 10 minutes to go City substitute Gavin White went close, but his goal-bound strike was blocked by a brave Sam Todd, after Chorazka had initially denied Josh Thomas.
Right at the death Parsons was denied by Beach as Bohs should have netted a second in stoppage time.
Derry City: Edward Beach, Ben Doherty, Jamie Stott, Patrick McClean, Brandon Fleming; Carl Winchester, James McClean; Darragh Markey (Gavin White 71), James Clarke (Dipo Akinyemi 71), Michael Duffy; Josh Thomas (Henry Rylah 90).
Bohemians: Kacper Chorazka, Darragh Power, Patrick Hickey, Sam Todd, Senan Mullen; Dayle Rooney (Niall Morahan 82), Dawson Devoy, Jordan Flores (Adam McDonnell 88), Harry Vaughan (Connor Parsons 64); Ross Tierney (Cian Byrne 88); Colm Whelan (Hugh Martin 82).
Referee: Marc Lynch.
