Report: St Patrick's Athletic 4-0 Dundalk FC

Dundalk FC suffered a heavy defeat at Richmond Park on Friday night as St Patrick’s Athletic ran out 4–0 winners.

The hosts started brightly and opened the scoring on 20 minutes through Romal Palmer after Conor Kearns had initially produced a strong save and Dundalk battled to clear their lines. St Pat’s doubled their advantage six minutes later when Sean Hoare headed in from a corner.

Dundalk responded well before the break and went close when Eoin Kenny drove forward and forced Joseph Anang into a fine save. However, St Pat’s struck early in the second half to make it 3–0 through Zach Elbouzedi. Dundalk went close on several occasions with Gbemi Arubi and Eoin Kenny going close, but the fourth arrived on 82 minutes as substitute Aidan Keena finished from close range.

St Patrick’s Athletic: Joseph Anang; Joe Redmond, Sean Hoare (Tom Grivosti 53), Luke Turner; James Brown (Darragh Nugent 73), Kian Leavy, Jamie Lennon, Barry Baggley, Zach Elbouzedi (Jay McClelland 55); Romal Palmer (Chris Forrester ht); Ryan Edmondson (Aidan Keena 73).

Dundalk: Conor Kearns; John Ross Wilson, Bobby Burns, Harvey Warren, Rob Cornwall (Conor O'Keeffe 82), Tyreke Wilson (Gbemi Arubi HT); Keith Buckley (Harry Groome 57), Aodh Dervin (Ronan Teahan HT); Danny Mullen, Daryl Horgan, Eoin Kenny (Declan McDaid 57).

Referee: Lucas Keating (Cork).

Attendance: 4,427.