Blues cruise to win and close on Longford

Waterford United cruised to success at the RSC last night as the Blues kept their promotion hopes well and truly alive against an opposition side that battled but never looked capable of holding the home side.

Waterford took the lead inside two minutes when Paul Phelan did superbly well on the left of the penalty area to lay the ball into the path of Seanie Maguire, who turned brilliantly before firing past Ronan Forde from 12 yards.

There was nothing the Mervue keeper could do to stop Waterford netting their second goal on 31 minutes when Maguire combined once again with Phelan and he drilled a low left-footed shot to the corner of the net.