Cork City 2 Waterford FC 0

Waterford FC’s second visit to Turners Cross in a fortnight resulted in another fruitless night as they lost out to a dominant Cork City side that belied their bottom of the table status.

John Coleman, once again mixed things up with Kacper Radkowski returning to the lineup for the first time in over three months following his ankle injury while Jesse Dempsey and Josh Miles also came in as Coleman looked for more width, and Muhammadu Faal retained his place at the expense of Tommy Lonergan. Lonergan, Ronan Mansfield, Grant Horton and Jordan Rossiter dropped to the bench.

It was Waterford who had the chances early on with Muhammadu Faal running past a few Cork defenders before drawing a good save from Conor Brann at his near post and then Brann was the saviour when he denied Josh Miles.

Cork will thank their goalkeeper as Brann then denied Podge Amond who fired an excellent volley that was destined for the net and moments later dived full length to palm away a Radkowski shot from distance.

And the Blues paid for those misses when Cork took the lead deep in injury time as a Matt Kiernan cross deflected off Radkowski into the path of Evan McLaughlin who volleyed past Stephen McMullen.

Cork doubled their lead on 54 minutes when a Sam Glenfield backpass was intercepted by Matt Murray and he buried the shot in the bottom corner.

Waterford tried in vain to get back into the game and despite a number of substitutions they could not find a way through a Cork side that was brimming in confidence

Cork City: C Brann, E McLaughlin(C Lyons 77′), K Nelson, D Crowley, M Kiernan, J Fitzpatrick (A Nolan 26′), F Anderson, S Maguire, M Murray (S Murray 56′), R Feely, K Kamara.

Waterford FC: S McMullan, K Radkowski, A Boyle, R Burke, J Miles (T Coyle 63′), J Dempsey, C Noonan, S Glenfield (J Rossiter 63′), J Olayinka, M Faal, P Amond

Referee: Paul McLaughlin