Latest News Upadte: Rovers 1-1 Drogheda United
On Saturday, Sligo Rovers played Drogheda United at The Showgrounds in front of 2317 fans.
The game was played in very bad weather because it rained all evening and a strong wind made it hard to play football in a game that was evenly matched.
Stefan Radosavljevic and Reece Hutchinson replaced Bogdan Vastsuk and Daniel Lafferty in John Russell's lineup from Monday's match against Shelbourne.
Following a recent ankle injury, defender Johan Brannefalk joined the team and was fit enough to sit on the bench.
The initial time of the game had a high speed to it with the two sides hoping to make a few possibilities from the beginning. Blunt Liivak had a punishment offer waved away be the official and Freddie Draper went near Drogheda yet the half was at last an even game with practically no goalmouth activity and the sides went in level at the break.
Ryan Brennan, a midfielder for the visitors, scored the first goal of the second half on 53 minutes after reacting quickly in the area to score from close range.
John Russell welcomed on Kailin Barlow and Niall Morahan for the last half hour instead of Radosavljevic and Lukas Carmelizing and Wanderers began to get on top and were level on 63 minutes through this season's top goalscorer Max Mata.
After waiting for Reece Hutchinson to cross from the outside on the overlap, Will Fitzgerald set him up to cross for Mata to head home from close range.
Drogheda also appeared to be threatening on the counterattack, and Rovers pushed for a victory as a result of this boost to the home crowd.
Dylan Grimes shaved the crossbar late on, and Barlow came very close with a couple of shots.
Johan Brannefalk was presented late on for his re-visitation of activity and he couldn't exactly hold his cross down in the last minutes for Mata who nearly got on the finish of it.
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