Tim Clancy: 'We let ourselves down on Monday night'

After Shelbourne and St. Patricks Athletic played out a four-all thriller last Monday night, the Inchicore outfit bounced back on Friday thanks to a last gasp Adam O'Reilly winner away to Dundalk.

"It's obviously a late, late winner and there's nothing better in football," said Clancy.

"I think the goal that we scored, we were defending. Sam Curtis uses his body really well when you could easily just lump it forward, he finds the pass to Barry [Cotter].

"He finds a pass to Ben McCormack, he finds Tunde (Owolabi), McCormack overlaps and Tunde slips him in and then puts a great little ball across the box and Adam O'Reilly who's a defensive midfielder gets from one box to the other six-yard-box to score the winner with 15 seconds left so it's I think, I think it's more than we deserve."

Monday's thriller was good for the neutral but perhaps not the managers involved. The feeling on Friday night sends the Trim native and his players home happy.

"Elation," said Clancy when asked how the dressing room felt.

"Listen we let ourselves down on Monday night with with the goals we conceded. We're still not happy with the goal we conceded just before half-time.

"It's managing the game that we have to get better at. We've a throw-in in injury time at the end of the first half and we tried to play to to Adam who's under pressure and instead of just working the line and playing the percentages.

"I thought second half we were very good. I thought we were the better team throughout the whole game and in the balance of the games we played against Dundalk this season, it is certainly just that we won some of the games.

Pats host last years beaten cup finalists Bohemians next Friday night before travelling to Tallaght to take on Shamrock Rovers. They