Markey wins it for Drogheda with last shot of the game

Drogheda United produced one of the results of the season as Darragh Markey's 94th minute winner downed St Patrick’s Athletic at Weavers Park.

The Saints four-game winning streak came to an end as the unfancied Drogs claimed three points in the most dramatic fashion possible, as Markey’s injury time winner earned a deserved three points for the strugglers.

The victory sees United leapfrog both Cork City and Sligo Rovers in the table ahead of the midseason break. They sit pretty in seventh now after the last gasp breakaway move in the fourth minute of injury time ended the ball being slotted past Dean Lyness.

Tails were high with hopes of a title tilt growing even more so as the side from Inchicore arrived on the banks of the river Boyne. Since Jon Daly assumed control of first team affairs, his team had won six of seven matches, only losing narrowly to champions Shamrock Rovers in that time.

Their recent record against Drogheda – five straight victories with 15 goals scored in the process – will have as much buoyed them as reminded United of the task in front of them as they sought to bounce back from successive defeats that had dropped them into the relegation playoff position.

In that context, Drogheda’s victory is one of the shocks of the season thus far.

Ryan Brennan, returning from a one game suspension, and Evan Weir came into the Drogheda XI.

Jon Daly made three changes to the team that won so impressively against Derry City just four days earlier. Thijs Timmermans, Thomas Lonergan and Mark Doyle were introduced.

The Saints have dominated Drogheda in their recent meetings, winning all of their previous five clashes and scoring 15 goals in the process. Given their current form, near imperious with six wins from seven