Cork City FC Women welcome Sligo Rovers Women to Turners Cross this Saturday at 5pm for the third meeting of the teams in this season\u2019s SSE Airtricity Women\u2019s National League. It\u2019s been two narrow wins for Sligo in the first two games between the sides, which is a testament to the strength of the Sligo side in their inaugural WNL Season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sligo lie one place, and ten points, above City in the table but Danny Murphy sees both sides on a similar trajectory this season as results and performances for both sides have been up and down. \u201cSligo is a strange one for us to prepare for\u201d Murphy opened \u201cit\u2019s difficult to judge them on video analysis because they\u2019re a different team from the start of the season and I think we are too. So, this weekend we\u2019re going to approach it all about us, how we can play, things we can do, and I think if we play the same way we did against Athlone then we\u2019ll be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While back to back Cup and League games against Athlone resulted in back to back losses, Murphy goes into this weekend\u2019s game confident that his team are capable of gaining ground on the Bit O\u2019 Red. \u201cWhen I watch back from last weekend, in my opinion we made Athlone look like they weren\u2019t top of the table, we played really well but then thing is they got four chances and scored two of them. We created five or six chances but we didn\u2019t make the keeper work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI might be more worried if we weren\u2019t creating opportunities, but I feel the margins are fine, we even we just need a slice of luck. We\u2019re not a million miles away, it\u2019s just judging the weight of a pass better to put someone through, but those small little details are what take you from the bottom of the table and move you towards the top.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Murphy has close to a full squad to pick from for the first time in a couple of months with just Lauren Singleton a doubt through illness. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing too serious otherwise this weekend\u201d Murphy states, \u201cthe players have a few little knocks and bruises but that comes from the effort they\u2019re putting in, putting their bodies on the line, making tackles and blocks, for me they\u2019re part and parcel of the game and we\u2019ll get through that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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