It\u2019s been another whirlwind week for the Cork City WU17 squad with three players Clodagh Fitzgerald, Ciara Fitzpatrick and Keira Sena called up to the Irish U16 squad and that\u2019s where out weekend lookahead with Jess Lawton starts. \u201cIt\u2019s brilliant for the three girls and well deserved and to be fair, there\u2019s probably two or three more that could be sneaking into the squad, we have a huge amount of quality in our squad and definitely think there are girls there who are worth looking at for International level. Luckily the girls aren\u2019t missing any games and the trip to Wales next week isn\u2019t a long trip, so hopefully they enjoy the opportunity and come back to us without any injury\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s a tricky task on Saturday 10th as the WU17 host Shamrock Rovers in the Quarter Final of the FAI Cup in Bishopstown at 2pm. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to it. While we know that there\u2019s a cup semi-final at stake, we\u2019ll play the game and not the moment. It\u2019s easy enough to get distracted by an occasion but it\u2019s just a match and that\u2019s how we treat it. We haven\u2019t played Shamrock Rovers this season, so they\u2019re a little bit of an unknown for us, I know they have good players and how they set up, I\u2019ve done my research on them but again we focus on our game and our players and we don\u2019t change too much. We are looking at our defensive shape front to back, we\u2019re a young U17 side, but we won\u2019t change what isn\u2019t broken. We\u2019re playing well and our confidence is up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chloe Atkinson and Eva Mangan have been called up to the Irish U19 Camp next week which means Lawton has to plan without Chloe for Sunday\u2019s trip to DLR waves with the U19 squad. \u201cAgain, it\u2019s great to see the girls recognised, but we could have done with Chloe, we are down girls due to illness and injury but we\u2019ve been playing really good football and were really unlucky last weekend. We weren\u2019t great in the first half, performance was poor. I think the girls saw a different side to me at half-time\u201d laughs Jess \u201cbut that\u2019s all part of it. We fought back and we\u2019re better in the second half, not as good as we have been playing over the past few weeks but I was happy with the reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDLR will be missing players as well due to the international camp. It\u2019ll be a good contest, we\u2019ll play proper football, the girls will put everything into it. We only really have to be in top form as we\u2019re heading towards quarter final stages and we\u2019re starting to see that with this group. We\u2019re turning a corner and we\u2019re starting to see those levels we know we can hit more consistently and we want to see that level of performance on Sunday again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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