Stephen McPhail: Hoops ready for City blitz

Having failed to turn up at Turner’s Cross when the sides last met in April, Stephen McPhail knows Shamrock Rovers have a point to prove as well as points to gain when Cork City visit Tallaght Stadium tonight (8pm).

Cork blitzed Rovers in racing into their match-winning 2-0 lead inside 13 minutes in the first series of games. And though he didn’t play in that game, Hoops’ skipper McPhail wants no repeat against John Caulfield’s in-form side in Dublin 24 this evening.

Cork beat champions Dundalk for the second time in the league this year in their last outing in making it eight straight league wins to inch to within a point of Stephen Kenny’s leaders.