Waterford FC 2 Cork City 1

Waterford FC moved to the top of the table having come from behind to defeat Cork City in an entertaining SSE Airtricity Men’s Premier Division clash at the RSC last night.

Keith Long kept faith with the team that performed so well at the Brandywell on Friday evening with Ryan Burke serving the second of his two match suspensions again sitting in the stands.

It was the Leesiders who got the perfect start on 8 minutes when Alex Nolan was put through in the right channel by Darragh Crowley and he skipped by Kyle White at the end line before firing a left footed effort past Stephen McMullan from the tightest of angles.

Waterford responded immediately forcing a corner which was delivered into the danger area but cleared by Seani Maguire into the path of Dean McMenamy who crashed a right footer off the crossbar.

Waterford had another half chance on 17 minutes when Tommy Lonergan headed down inside the area for Podge Amond who tried to hit it on the turn but his effort was well off target.

Nolan should have doubled his tally and Cork’s advantage on 23 minutes when substitute Harvey Skieters, who had only come off the bench for Maguire seconds before, threaded a great ball though for the striker but he somehow dragged his shot across the goal.

The sides were level within two minutes of the restart when a great team move started on the right with Navajo Bakboord sending Noonan into the area. He turned and found Rowan McDonald at the top of the box. His low drive was then turned home by Amond for his first goal of the season.

Cork were reduced to ten men just after the hour mark when Freddie Anderson was given his marching orders for a foul on Lonergan that saw Damien McGraith issue him a second yellow card and from the resulting free kick, Lonergan’s effort glanced off the wall and then crossbar.

Kacper Radkowski, who scored his first goal for the club on Friday evening, came close to adding a second to his tally when he let fly from 25 yards on 77 minutes but he was denied by a flying save from Tein Troost who palmed it away for a corner.

The deserved winner arrived four minutes from time when a cross from the right from Amond was headed goalwards by Lonergan who again forced a great save from Troost but Kyle White was on hand with the follow up to fire home.

Waterford FC: S McMullan, N Bakboord, A Boyle, K Radkowski, D Leahy, K White, R McDonald, D McMenamy (M Pouwels 74′), C Noonan, P Amond, T Lonergan

Cork City: T Troost, B Couto, C Lyons, G Bolger (S Murray 46′), M Dijksteel (M Mbeng 64′), R Keating, A Nolan (J Fitzpatrick 78′), K Nelson (R Shipston 78′), D Crowley, F Anderson, S Maguire (H Skieters 22′)

Referee: D McGraith (Mayo)

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