Candystripes slip up in Waterford

Waterford United 2 Derry City 1

Willy John Kiely hit his first goal for Waterford to give their survival hopes a huge lift.

Blues travel to meet bottom side Longford Town next week now five points ahead of them after their defeat at Galway.

It didn't look like being Blues night, though, as Vinny Sullivan had a poorly struck 11th minute penalty saved by Pat Jennings after Eddie McCallion handled Paul McCarthy's shot.

Pat McCourt then showed Sullivan how to take a spot kick when drilling home on 29 minutes following another handball, this time by Alan Kearney from Killian Brennan's cross.

But Blues turned the game on its head inside two minutes early in the second half.

Sullivan made amends for his spot kick miss on 49 minutes when scooping home the rebound after Jennings had touched his initial shot onto a post.

Two minutes later Brennan's back header from Kearney's long-range free-kick landed at the feet of Kiely whose shot was adjudged to have cross the line by assistant referee Martin O'Brien before Jennings though he'd saved it.

Derry then had Brennan sent off on 59 minutes for retaliating on Dave Warren.

Blues also finished with ten men when substitute Alan Mulcahy was shown a straight red after a scuffle in the final minute.