A brace from midfielder Joshua Kee and one from former Derry City striker David Parkhouse – the forward’s fifth goal in two Playfit Championship games – meant a first league defeat of the season for ’Stute who handed a debut to new signing Brandon Diau. The frustration for Deery was, despite the sloppy nature of the goals conceded, they still created ample goalscoring opportunities but were left with only Padraig Lynch’s excellent first half finish to show for their efforts on a frustrating afternoon at the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Derry Journal, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
“You can see clearly, in big moments we’re struggling and I firmly believe it’s a mentality thing,” explained Deery, “We’re just trying to grow this new group together. “Last year we had the luxury of being patient but obviously with expectation levels going up after a good season, people look at it and think it’s a shock result. For me, we’ve turned over 12 or 13 players so I know where we’re at.
“However we can’t excuse the big moments we didn’t do well in. We were good in the first half and probably looked as if we were going to score more goals. Then we started well in the second half and we had big chances.
“I felt Mikhail (Kennedy) was fouled inside the box and that was a penalty which could have put us in front but it wasn’t given. But all in .