Cork City 0 Drogheda Utd 0:THERE were no goals at Turner's Cross last night but the result keeps Cork in third place and in pole position to claim a place in next season's Europa League.
Drogheda remain just one place off the foot of the table.
Cork, who came into last night’s game on the back of Tuesday’s impressive 2-1 win away to Shamrock Rovers, had the best chance of an uneventful first half when Gareth Cambridge’s left-footed strike from the edge of the box went inches wide of Paul Skinner’s post shortly before the interval.
Drogheda could have opened the scoring within a minute of the restart but James Chambers failed to hit the target with a half-volley from close range.
Cillian Lordan came to Cork’s rescue on 55 minutes when, after a scramble in the home side’s penalty area, the ball falling to the feet of the unmarked Conor Kenna, but he was denied by Lordan’s goal-line clearance.
Cork’s Greg O’Halloran was presented with a glorious opportunity to make the breakthrough in the 62nd minute but his close-range effort was smothered by Skinner.
Cork were reduced to 10 men in injury-time when captain Dan Murray was shown a second yellow card for a handball.
CORK CITY: McNulty; Horgan, Long, Murray, Murphy; Lordan, O'Donnell, O'Halloran, Duggan (ONeill, 61 mins); Kuduzovic (Mulcahy, 90 mins), Cambridge (Silagailis, 77 mins).
DROGHEDA UNITED: Skinner; Ryan (Gibbs, 69 mins), McNally, Kenna, Clarke; Chambers (Shiels, 88 mins), Crowley, King; Duffy (Martin, 52 mins), Gaynor.
Referee: P Sutton (Clare).
