With the chance to go top of the League of Ireland Premier Division table with a fifth straight victory, Derry City will travel to the Showgrounds to take on Sligo Rovers on Thursday. The visitors trail league leaders Shelbourne by just two points in the midst of a hot streak, while their hosts sit seventh after making a return to winning ways last time out. Sligo Rovers head back to the Showgrounds on Thursday with the aim of making it back-to-back victories in the League of Ireland Premier Division, having bounced back to winning ways last Friday.
After an eighth-placed finish last year, the Bit O'Red have experienced a mixed campaign thus far, currently sitting seventh having earned 28 points from their first 22 outings, picking up seven wins along the way while suffering eight defeats. Two of those triumphs came consecutively across late May and early June, as John Russell 's side got the better of leaders Shelbourne and strugglers Drogheda United to move up to sixth spot, but they were unable to continue that form, falling short in the next two outings away at Waterford and Dundalk. They then set out to bounce back on Friday when defending champions Shamrock Rovers visited the Showgrounds, and Russell's men succeeded in doing so in impressive fashion, taking all three points from a 2-0 triumph thanks to Simon Power 's brace in the final 15 minutes.
Now bound to have renewed confidence in the camp, having moved back level on points with St Patrick's Athletic and just two .
