Cork City welcome Peamount United to Turners Cross for a 5pm kick-off in what is becoming an exciting end to the Women\u2019s National League. The Peamount team features Aine O\u2019Gorman, who starred for Ireland in Tuesdays World Cup qualifying playoff against Scotland. The qualification has resulted in a huge interest in the National side which City manager Danny Murphy, hopes will translate to interest in the league at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt would be amazing to get a big crowd out to the game, with what the National Team did in the play-off on Tuesday night, it can only drive interest in the Women\u2019s game. Like the men\u2019s game, going to the UK to see those players who play there is difficult for parents and kids. But you\u2019ve got Aine O\u2019Gorman at Turners Cross on Saturday who was brilliant on Tuesday night and then you\u2019ve got Cork City players who I know will feature for the Senior National Team in the future and for young girls playing the game, you couldn\u2019t have better heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf you want to watch some of our best players and learn from them, it\u2019s all about going out and watching your local team and supporting them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peamount are in a title race which sees four teams \u2013 Wexford Youths, Peamount, Shelbourne and Athlone Town – separated by just three points. While Peamount will be strong favourites, City will not make it easy. \u201cWe want to go out and be competitive. The players have improved every game and every training session is a little sharper and better than the one before\u201d says Murphy \u201cwe\u2019re all ambitious, we want to win things and be successful next season, we want to be right up there with the top four teams in the country. This is a great opportunity to see how far we\u2019ve come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve played Peamount twice this season, lost 7-0 and 8-0, it was my first game in charge, so this is really one I\u2019ve been looking forward to. Me and James will get a really good idea of where we\u2019re at on Saturday. Those losses were awful, but we believe we\u2019ve improved and that we can compete with anyone and cause them problems. We showed at Shelbourne that we have good performances in us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s mostly good news on the injury front, but there are a couple of players who will miss out. \u201cWe\u2019ve got our International players back from the Irish U19s, we gave them Tuesday off but they trained Wednesday and Friday. Eva, Ellie, Chloe, and Laura are back. Hannah Walsh is out, she got a concussion playing for UCC during the week. Orlaith Deasy is out, which is a pity, she\u2019s had some bad luck and it\u2019s been difficult for her to get a steady run of games and we\u2019ll miss her. Aoibhinn Donnelly is back from injury. We\u2019re going to leave Fiana and Heidi with the U17s for their Cup Semi-final, they deserve to finish out the competition with their team-mates. Everyone looking forward to it, but it\u2019s giving me some tough decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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