'We got what we deserved' - insists Derry City's Mark McChrystal

The defender, who was given his first start of the season replacing the injured Ally Gilchrist, felt the Candy Stripes struggled throughout the 90 minutes.

“Listen I don’t think we performed the way we can and obviously the manner of the two goals, one right before half-time and the other right before the final whistle, isn’t what we wanted,” he said.

“Look it’s always going to be tough down here and you have to roll your sleeves up and do all the dirty parts of the game and then hopefully you can open things up in the final third as the game progressives and then maybe create something and get a goal, which we did, but their goal right before half-time, killed us.

"However in saying that it was only 1-1 and we were still in the game; we had to come out in the second half try to go again and look to create the chances, but as I don’t think we did that tonight and probably got what we deserved in the end.”

The ex-Crusaders man felt Alan Reynolds' side had all the momentum and felt Shane Griffin's stoppage time wonder strike was coming.

“Listen the way the game was going, they had the momentum and as a group we have to sit in there and just say ‘listen you know what, we’ll take a 1-1 and get back up the road with a point’, because in the second half I don’t think we looked like scoring,” he added.

“Look it’s concerning that we didn’t look like scoring, but it’s up to us to change that."