Luckless Saints left a mountain to climb

LUCKLESS St Patrick’s Athletic suffered a cruel late blow in the Ukraine last night when a goal three minutes into injury time gave Karpaty Lviv a two-goal advantage going into next Thursday’s return leg.

Compounding the disappointment for Pats last night was Pete Mahon’s belief that the last minute free-kick which resulted in the second goal was wrongly awarded and that, furthermore, Voronkov was offside when he scored on the rebound from Gary Rogers’ initial save.

“But there’s no use in feeling sorry for ourselves because nobody else will,” said the manager. “We have to get over it and bounce back, which we’ve done before.