Mbabazi brings City down to earth

St Patrick’s Athletic 4 Cork City 1

St Pat's gathered a bountiful harvest from a succession of scoring chances in an extraordinary match. It sounds like a contradiction, in view of the scoreline, to suggest Cork played the better football, but there was a style and a swagger about much of their work.

Cork were reduced to 10 men when Greg O'Halloran was dismissed after 59 minutes when, as the last defender, he was guilty of a trip on Mbabazi. But they suffered mostly because their suspect defence was regularly caught square by an alert St Pat's midfield.