Eamonn Deacy Park is the venue as Galway United and Drogheda United do battle for second place in the First Division, and an opportunity to close the gap on leaders UCD, should they fail to beat Cabinteely in Stradbook.
Shane Keegan’s side have bounced back from defeat to Finn Harps in Ballybofey to beat both the aforementioned UCD and Cabinteely. Drogheda themselves are also on a 2-game winning streak, having beaten the Divisions bottom sides Athlone and Wexford.
Galway boss Keegan has been happy with recent results but not performances, “We’ve won four of our last five games, so we will be hoping to try and keep that going against Drogheda.”
“Our performance against Cabinteely wasn’t good enough, but we managed to scrape the three points. It probably balances out after the Finn Harps game, where we felt we were decent and came away with nothing somehow.”
He knows if they perform as they did in the win over UCD they’ll be a match for Drogheda, “There is no doubt that the level of performance that we reached against UCD is what we’ll need to reproduce to get a positive result against Drogheda. We will be looking to improve on the performance in Cabinteely.”
“The players are looking forward to it and confidence is high in the squad. Over the last few weeks I’ve asked for a big response from the players and I really do feel I’ve got that.”
“We will have to be at our best against Drogheda. We delivered it against UCD when it really mattered a couple of weeks ago and there is no doubt we need to deliver it again.”
Keegan is also calling on the club’s supporters to turn out in big numbers, “We need everybody behind us. The atmosphere in the place is fantastic, there is a good support and if that could be replicated on Friday, that will certainly be a big help to the players.”
In the opposition dugout Drogs boss Tim Clancy knows it’s a big game, “They’re a full-time team with a squad full of quality players so obviously it’s going to be a real test for us.”
“We don’t want to find ourselves in the same situation as the home game a few months ago where we really had to go chasing it so a bright start will be really important.”
“There’s only a handful of points between four or five sides in the table and we want to still be in the mix as the season goes on.”
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