Ollie Horgan won’t be toasting his half-empty glass to safety until it is signed, sealed and delivered. Finn Harps’ helter-skelter 2-3 success over Bray Wanderers may have lifted them five points clear of the bottom three but Horgan knows a lot can
Ollie Horgan won’t be toasting his half-empty glass to safety until it is signed, sealed and delivered.
Finn Harps’ helter-skelter 2-3 success over Bray Wanderers may have lifted them five points clear of the bottom three but Horgan knows a lot can happen in his side’s final 10 games..
He was delighted with the three points at the Carlisle Grounds but dissatisfied with his side’s Jekyll and Hyde performance that almost allowed Bray’s 10 men to pinch a point.
“It was a good result”, mused Horgan. “I think probably the disappointing part is that we’d the game won twice. In the first half, I thought we were decent and created the better chances and deserved to be 0-2 up.
"When they went down to 10 men I thought ‘right, we’ll go and kill this game’ but we didn’t and to be fair to Bray with the 10 men they were a bigger threat than they were with maybe with the 11.
“It was backs to the wall stuff against 10 men for the last 20 minutes as you saw. The third goal, we thought that we’d killed it, and then Ryan Brennan pops up with one from a corner kick and they’d chances to go on and equalise. You can’t fault the fight with the 10 men in particular.”
A five-point cushion and a game in hand over most of their relegation rivals will have eased the Co. Donegal’s worries but Horgan isn't about to get complacent.
“We’re in a fight. We’re in a battle and that’ll be the way it’ll be right until the end when we play Bohs in Dalymount in the very last game of the season. Please God, we have something to play for in that game and that’s where I see it going. Please God, we won’t drift the other way. I can’t see us drifting up the way either to be blunt.
"You know the quality of teams around us and I think there’s one or two teams down with us that are in a false position with the quality of players that they have and some of them have started to kick on. We’ll battle - whether it’s enough, I don’t know. Our second half performance tonight certainly wouldn’t be enough.”
