Dundalk v Derry City - Oriel Park (7.45)
After what looked to be an extremely promising run Martin Murray's side have fallen back over the past week or so, with last week's second half nightmare in Bray followed, on Monday night, by the more closely-fought defeat by St Patrick's Athletic.
Murray says he was happy enough with the performance in the latter game and so there are unlikely to be any dramatic changes to the line up that starts this evening against Derry. Liam Dunne, though no longer suspended, is injured, but Martin Reilly faces a late fitness test and will feature if he comes through it.
For City, the scheduling of games this week has become a major difficulty, with the team only having arrived back from Galway at three yesterday morning and Kevin Mahon having virtually no opportunity to assess players' fitness in advance of another trip south.
Eamon Doherty looks, however, to be the only serious doubt after pulling a hamstring at Terryland Park and if he does miss out then Liam Coyle looks certain to start after being on the bench on Tuesday, while both Darren McCreadie and Gareth McGlynn could come into the reckoning.
Last season: Did not meet.
Leading scorers: Dundalk - Prizeman, Keddy, Robinson, Ward (2 each); Derry City - T McCallion, Coyle, Hughes (2 each).
League form: Dundalk - DDWLL; City - LWDDW.
Betting: Home - 13/8, Draw - 9/4, Away - 5/4.
Referee: J Stacey (Westmeath)
A superb goal from Dutch striker Collins John was the difference between the sides as Brian Kerr's Irish under-17s' lack of a cutting edge in attack proved crucial at Richmond Park.
Though Ireland had much of the possession in the first-half it was the Dutch who created the two clearest chances on the counter-attack. Both fell to the imposing John. He drilled wide after Resham Sardar put him through on 40 minutes. Then, seconds before the interval, Rick Kruys put John in again and he forced a super one-handed save from Irish 'keeper Paul Murphy.
But there was no reprieve six minutes after the break when John was left free to score with a well-placed low drive from just outside the area.
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Murphy (Leeds Utd); O'Mahony (Kingdom Boys), McStay (Leeds Utd), Flynn (Wolves), Hutton (Peterborough Utd); Flood (Manchester City), Cousins (Leeds Utd), Ryan (Sunderlan), O'Brien (Newcastle Utd); Berminghm (Manchester City), Casidy (Home Farm). Subs: Matthews (Manchester City), Cronin (Leeds Utd) for O'Brien, Flynn (both 56 mins), O'Connor (St Joseph's Boys) for Cousins (65 mins), Timlin (Fulham), Corr (Leeds Utd) for Bermingham, Cassidy (both 74 mins), Cosgrave (Stella Maris), Cregg (Stella Maris) for Murphy, Ryan (both 84 mins.).
HOLLAND: Dreezen; Jardim, Boogaart, Otten, Wouter; Sardar, Daemen, Hedwiges, K. van Baarlen; Collins, Kruys. Subs - Blonk for Daemen (half-time), Lammers for van Baarlen (56 mins), van Rooyem for John (89 mins), J van Baarlem for Sardar (90 mins).
Referee: P Tuite (Dublin).
