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Will Jarvis scored twice from the penalty spot to extend league leaders’ advantage to six points.

Rovers have just the one win from their last seven league matches.

Six points adrift at the bottom of the table, without a full time manager for the second time this season, with no Head of Football Operations and with a goalkeeper serving his second of a ten game ban, Dundalk face four-in-a-row champions Shamrock Rovers.

The Hoops will be looking for a win over Waterford that would give them a four point haul from each of their Friday-Monday double headers that they have played over the last three weeks.

Their first back-to-back wins of the season moves Waterford up to sixth place,

Stephen Bradley was delighted to see Jack Byrne and others return against Bohemians last night.

Bohs were on the wrong end of a new manager bounce when they lost 2-0 to the Noel King-led Dundalk last weekend

Counting through the missing players for Shamrock Rovers last Friday night you needed all ten digits with Dan Cleary suspended and nine other outfield players out injured. However Hoops Head Coach Stephen Bradley wasn’t using that as an excuse for his team’s failure to beat Galway United.

The Hoops will go second on Monday night and move within two points of top spot should they beat Drogheda United in their re-arranged match.

The Hoops welcome Galway United to Dublin 24 on Friday night – a venue where the visitors have failed to win on each and every occasion when they have travelled to Tallaght to take on Rovers in a first team competitive game.