Premier

Carlisle Grounds
27 Jul 2018

A poor enough opening half by both teams nevertheless provided the visitors with a three-goal cushion at the break.

Karl Sheppard opened the scoring inside the quarter hour and Garry Buckley doubled their advantage on the half, before Sheppard popped up to take advantage of a messy defence five minutes later.

With the points effectively in the bag, the Leesiders may have eased up a little in the second period, but Bray improved, especially in defence, and captain Gary McCabe took the bare look off the scoresheet with a beautifully taken free that curled into the top right of Peter Cherrie's net.

In the final minutes Cork strove to restore their three-goal advantage, but despite their one-yard speed advantage over the Seagulls throughout the pitch they were unable to break through again.

As the teams left the pitch, rain which had been threatening throughout opened a sudden downpour, which the pitch at least will welcome.

Mícheál Ó hUanacháin

Bray Wanderers: 29 Evan Moran; 31 Seán Harding, 5 Seán Heaney, 4 Conor Kenna, 3 Kevin Lynch; 6 Paul O'Conor, 14 Rhys Gorman; 22 Darragh Noone, 21 Gary McCabe (c), 24 Jake Ellis; Gerald Pender
Subs: 11 Jake Kelly, 12 Dylan Hayes (for Gorman 65), 15 Darragh Gibbons (for Noone H/T), 18 Calvin Rogers, 25 Cian Walsh (for Pender 72), 28 Alex Rafferty, 50 Enda Minogue (gk)
Cork City: 13 Peter Cherrie; 10 Steven Beattie, 17 Damien Delaney, 29 Seán McLoughlin, 20 Shane Griffin; 8 Conor McCormack (c), 7 Jimmy Keohane; 25 Barry McNamee, 26 Garry Buckley, 19 Karl Sheppard; 9 Graham Cummins
Subs: 1 Mark McNulty (gk), 3 Alan Bennett, 4 Johnny Dunleavy (for Griffin 90), 5 Aaron Barry, 11 Kieran Sadlier (for McCormack H/T), 15 Shane Daly-Butz (for Buckley 81), 18 Rónán Coughlan
Referee: Paul McLaughlin