Cork City ease past Cobh Ramblers for third win from four

Cobh Ramblers 1 Cork City 3: Cork City made it three wins from four games in pre-season with a comfortable 3-1 victory against Cobh Ramblers at a sodden St Colman’s Park last night.

With the visitors starting with three unnamed trialists on the team-sheet, a straight 4-4-2 saw Gearóid Morrissey make his first start of the season along with new signing Shane Griffin. Not that it took long for the Rebel Army to gel, mind, Karl Sheppard profiting from a deflected Ramblers clearance to send in trialist Alex Yakuba to smash the ball past a helpless Paul Hunt.

That Yakuba/Sheppard partnership was bearing fruit for John Caulfield’s side and, after Morrissey fired just over from a free-kick routine, Sheppard again provided the dog-work 20 minutes in, but ‘Trialist B’ fluffed his lines trying to finish across his body. Two minutes later and it was two of City’s trialists who combined, as Christian Nanetti’s powerful run saw him buy some space, before a floated cross allowed Yakuba to head low, but Paul Hunt was equal to the effort.