Limerick prove the penalty kings

Derry City - 1 Limerick FC - 0: Agg: 2-2; AET: Limerick win 3-2 on pens NATIONAL LEAGU CUP/Final second leg: Limerick, a club…

Derry City - 1 Limerick FC - 0: Agg: 2-2; AET: Limerick win 3-2 on pensNATIONAL LEAGU CUP/Final second leg: Limerick, a club that finished bottom of the National League First Division and are up for re-election, battled through 120 minutes last night and all the way to penalties, which they won 3-2, to win the League Cup at the Brandywell.

Leading 2-1 from the first leg, Limerick were pegged back on aggregate when Derry's Liam Coyle converted a 71st-minute penalty after Pat Purcell took down substitute Jamie Hughes.

The undoubted hero for Limerick was inspired goalkeeper Jimmy Fyffe, who pulled off a trio of top-drawer saves during the final minute of normal time and saved Derry's final two penalty kicks in the shoot-out..

DERRY: Payne; E McCallion, McCready, McLaughlin, Doherty, Deery, McGlynn, Coyle, T McCallion, Moran Subs: Hughes and Mullan for Moran and McCready (61 mins), Gilmour for Coyle (112 mins).

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LIMERICK: Fyffe; Poill, Molan, Finucane, Purcell, Whyte, O'Donoghue, Huges, Stokes, Foley, Donellan. Subs: Browne for Molan (23 mins), Baker for O'Donoghue (79 mins).

Referee: D McKeon (Dublin).