Sunday 22nd April 2007, 6:37 pm
22nd April 2007
Wexford Youths 0
Kilkenny City 1
John MacNicholas 85
Wexford Football Complex
John McNicholas hit a late winner for Kilkenny City to condemn Wexford Youths to their first home defeat in the First Division of the League of Ireland today at the Wexford Youths complex.
Both sides struggled to create much in a poor first half but both upped their games after the break.
After Kilkenny went close a couple of times, McNicholas struck the only goal of the game on 85 minutes as he fired home from long range after Joe Watson played the ball into his path.
Wexford came close to levelling in the few minutes that remained when Garret Larkin's header was cleared off the line.
The win, their second of the season, lifts Kilkenny up to seventh in the table just two points behind Wexford.
Wexford Youths : Dunphy, Russell, Wadding, Murphy, Malone, Brosnan (Fitzgerald 65), O'Loughlin, Kelly, White (Larkin 55), Sinnott, Flynn-O'Connor (Colfer 90).
Kilkenny City : McGuinness, Nagle, Denn, Fitzgerald, Falvey, Walsh (McNicholas 79), Grant, Comerford, Fogarty, Tynan (O'Connor 65), Watson (Moylan 90).