Cork City start for Lopes

Cork City's French midfielder Oswald Lopes is included in Pat Dolan’s squad for the Shamrock Rovers tie at Richmond Park on Saturday (7pm).

The 24 year-old scored twice in a 10-0 friendly win over UL in Limerick over the weekend.

Cork put in a two-day training and assessment session on the UL campus that culminated in a one-sided match against the university team. Lopes played the full 90 minutes.

“We have a clean bill of health and hopefully Liam Kearney and Kevin Doyle will come through tonight’s U-21match in Switzerland as well," City manager Pat Dolan told the Evening Echo.

"The only injury we have is to Kevin Murray and he’s dropped out of the squad.”