Cork City FC Women return to Evoke.ie FAI Cup action this weekend with a tough away trip to Athlone Town FC, kick-off on Saturday is at 7pm and the game is live on LoITV. Tommy Hewitt\u2019s midland\u2019s side have risen to third in the table, just six points off league leaders Shelbourne, with a game in hand following a brilliant run of form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to Danny Murphy on Thursday this week, doesn\u2019t dwell on his sides last trip to Athlone, where City should have come away with a draw. He knows this will be a tougher test. \u201cWe went up there and we probably surprised them a little bit. They rested a few players and thought they\u2019d get a result. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s being disrespectful or anything, it\u2019s just managing their players within their squad. They bring Emily Corbet on at half time, fantastic player, she gets one chance and it\u2019s a goal. They\u2019re not going to fall for that this time, they know now that we can perform and if we play to our level of ability that we can have periods we dominate a game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t worry about other teams, I worry about us at the moment, can we get through 90 minutes without mistakes and errors. I look at Bohs where we dominate the game for long periods, we have loads of positives and things I\u2019m really happy with, but I want to win games and we need to perform for the full 90. I knew coming in it wasn\u2019t going to be easy, but we\u2019re improving all the time. We\u2019ve stopped just playing in our own half, we\u2019re playing more aggressively, in the opposition\u2019s half. We just need to be more productive there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The biggest concerns this weekend are injuries and illness. \u201cWe have fifty million injuries\u201d Murphy laughs, resigned to the losses \u201cCiara McNamara and Becky Cassin are both out sick, Dan Burke has been ill all week, Orlaith Deasy sick too, hasn\u2019t trained. Natalie O\u2019Brien still hasn\u2019t trained coming back from injury, but we\u2019re hoping she may be able to play a part. We have Lauren Singleton back, but Nadine Seward is out. We have some brilliant players on the fringes and some really strong girls coming through from underage, but you\u2019d prefer to do it the right way, and not just throw them in to 90 minutes, saying off you go. It\u2019s one of the biggest frustrations this year, we\u2019ve been constantly chopping and changing due to injuries and illness. So, we\u2019ve not been able to settle on a consistent team. It is what it is, we just have to keep trying to build on what we\u2019ve been implementing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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