Galway United picked up maximum points with a 2-1 win against Finn Harps as goals from Ronan Murray and Vinny Faherty outdid the visitors’ early Barry Molloy strike to extend their unbeaten streak to seven in the league. The win also lifts Shane Kee
Galway United picked up maximum points with a 2-1 win against Finn Harps as goals from Ronan Murray and Vinny Faherty outdid the visitors’ early Barry Molloy strike to extend their unbeaten streak to seven in the league.
The win also lifts Shane Keegan’s men out of the bottom three and sees their tally boosted to 14 points, and despite a shaky performance the United manager was glad to emerge from the contest with the win.
“It wasn’t pretty, that’s for sure,” Keegan said.
“We’ve played an awful lot better on numerous occasions, we would have fancied ourselves a bit better tonight, but at the end of the day we’ve come away with three points.”
When asked whether their excellent form and improved performances changes the team’s priorities, however, the Laois native was eager to reaffirm that their modus operandi remains to avoid the drop.
“No, not at the moment. I think any club would want to be looking at putting six points between them and third from bottom before they could ever start prioritising anything other than survival, to be honest with you.
“We’re in a decent position. If we were to get another three-to-four points out of the two more games that we’ve got this week, it could potentially put us in a hell of a lot healthier position. But, in terms of feeling that we’re out of danger I think anything but,” Keegan concluded.
Despite the end result, there were quite a number of positives for Harps fans to consider, not least that they ended their five-match goal-drought (in all competitions], but manager Ollie Horgan wasn’t bothered by that, and had a different take on events.
“The statistics and stuff doesn’t really bother me. All that mattered there tonight was whether we could get a point or three points out of it, and we didn’t get either.
“So, I’d be very happy if we continued the goal-scoring drought and drew nil-all to put it that way to you.
“Look, it’s hard to take, there’s no point in pretending that we’re happy as Larry. It’s tough going, but we’ll dust ourselves down and go again on Monday night [at home to St Patrick’s Athletic].”
Horgan felt that ‘the better team won’ and lamented his side’s lack of incision in the final third.
“We ran out of legs to a certain extent, maybe we ran out of a few bits of quality on the counter-attack where we turned them over a number of times, but just couldn’t get past the likes of Lee Grace and Stephen Folan,” Horgan added.
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