O'Sullivan comes back to haunt old club Harps as Sligo Rovers prevail

Sligo Rovers' Karl O’Sullivan scored the only goal of the game against his old club Finn Harps in this SSE Airtricity League Premier Division clash at Finn Park.

Sligo were comfortable for long spells in a contest that was pretty tepid with Ollie Horgan’s team looking out-of-sorts and patched up.

Harps might’ve been below par, but they nearly took something from the game when it was almost petering out with Mark Timlin missing a great chance to level with five minutes to go.

The former Derry City striker was 10 yards from goal and looked set to score only to see a combination of Colm Horgan and Adam McDonnell get in the way after Filip Mihaljevic had squared.

In the depths of injury time, Ed McGinty, the visiting goalkeeper, had to backpedal to smother as Harps belatedly kicked into life and in the 94th minute, with Mark Anthony McGinley in the Sligo box, there was a scramble but Sligo survived.

With Eric McWoods and Ryan Rainey having both been dismissed, while captain Dave Webster hobbled off in Friday's rather bizarre 2-2 draw at Bohemians, Horgan made five changes. He was forced into another change inside of 20 minutes when Ryan Connolly had to withdraw with a knock.

Meanwhile, Liam Buckley’s Sligo hadn’t won since their last meeting with Harps five weeks beforehand. Aidan Heena grabbed a hat-trick that night in a 3-1 success at the Showgrounds.

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Harps had McGinley to thank for keeping their sheet clean early on, staying on his feet to stop David Cawley’s shot. The Harps net-minder followed that up with a top-class double save, firstly to deny Mark Byrne and then the follow-up from Max Mata.

Sligo were dominating the chances and went in front after 26 minutes, though it was as untidy a goal as you could