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Bohemians pounce late to win

AIRTRICITY LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION Bohemians1 Drogheda Utd 0: A LAST minute goal from Ruaidhri Higgins, his first for the club…

Tue May 04 2010 - 01:00

AIRTRICITY LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION Bohemians1 Drogheda Utd 0:A LAST minute goal from Ruaidhri Higgins, his first for the club, spared Bohemians blushes at Dalymount Park last night.

The excellence of goalkeeper Paul Skinner and industry of his team-mates in front of him, looked set to earn Drogheda a point and end a run of four straight defeats as the watch entered the 90th minute.

Cue substitute Raffaele Cretaro who skipped around Joe Kendrick on the right wing to cross and midfielder Higgins arrived to finally beat Skinner with a back post header.

With four changes from Friday’s stalemate with UCD, Bohemians had a vibrancy about them from the off with Paddy Madden shooting just off target inside 30 seconds.

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Madden was there again on five minutes following a surging charge forward by defender Brian Shelley but Corie Treacy did well to block the young striker’s shot.

Drogheda settled into the game and a scramble in the home box gave them their first scent of goal. Shelley got his body in the way to deflect Brian King’s shot.

Both sides then came very close to finding the net just past the half hour mark. Madden’s header brought the first real save of the night from Skinner from Killian Brennan’s free-kick.

Drogheda immediately forced a corner at the other end and Paul Crowley volleyed inches wide of a post from Garreth O’Connor’s delivery.

Another Bohemians corner saw the industrious Shelley rise well to head past the post from Brennan’s ball. Skinner did well within minutes of the restart when holding a Jason McGuinness back post header from another Brennan corner.

Skinner then made perhaps the save of the night on 67 minutes when diving full stretch to push away Brennan’s 25 yard free-kick that looked set for the top corner.

BOHEMIANS: B Murphy; Rossiter (A Murphy, 47 mins) Shelley, McGuinness, Powell; Brennan, Keegan, Higgins, Greene (Cretaro, 67 mins); Madden (Quigley, 76 mins), Byrne.

DROGHEDA UNITED: Skinner; Treacy, McNally (D Brennan, 89 mins), Harris, Kendrick; King, O'Connor, Daly, Crowley, B McGill; Smyth (Fitzpatrick, 64 mins).

Referee: Richie Winter(Dublin).