Red-hot Rovers hit six

Shamrock Rovers 6 UCD 0

In doing so, the Hoops have now registered 15 goals in their three league fixtures with the students this season and will take a huge degree of confidence from their performance ahead of their Europa League tie with Partizan Belgrade next Thursday.

There was little incident of note inside a scrappy opening ten minutes, but the game sprung to life in the 13th minute as Gary Twigg spurned two opportunities to break the deadlock within 60 seconds of each other.