Pat does a Jose as 10 men crash

THESE two teams were level on points at the start of this game but they weren’t even level in numbers by the end as Bohemians had Keith Buckley and manager Pat Fenlon sent off and Derry City made the most of their numerical advantage to register a victory made even more comfortable when Bohs fluffed a penalty with five minutes to go.

Thriving in their first season as a resurrected top-flight club, Stephen Kenny’s side, in their away strip of yellow and black, buzzed like bees from the off, though their attractive build-up play tended to fall apart with the final ball.

For their part, the home side were much more direct in their efforts to get the ball forward to striker Anto Flood and, 18 minutes in, he sprung Derry’s high offside line and came agonisingly close to breaking the deadlock with a lobbed effort over the advancing Gerard Doherty.