Substitute Burke goal secures win for Rovers over Waterford

The Tallaght outfit showed no ill effects from their exit from the Champions League in midweek as they took up much of the early running with some clinical passing down the left yielding the breakthrough goal on eight minutes.

LATE WINNER: Shamrock Rovers’ Markus Poom and Graham Burke celebrate winning. Picture: ©INPHO/Ken Sutton

Waterford FC 1 (Christie Pattisson 52') Shamrock Rovers 2 (Cory O’Sullivan 8', Graham Burke 85')

Second-half substitute Graham Burke popped up with a crucial winning goal for champions Shamrock Rovers as they got over the midweek European defeat with a hard earned win over Waterford FC for a second time at the RSC this season in the SSE Airtricity Men’s Premier Division to move up to third.