Derry City face Bray Wanderers in a Monday Night Football fixture at the Brandywell, in a game that City need to grab points in following a run of four games that gained only one point.
The first of those games featured a shock 2-1 defeat in the Carlisle Grounds. Since that game Bray have themselves only picked up a point, albeit a great one in a 2-2 draw with high-flying Waterford.
The fixture list, with constant Friday/Monday/Friday/Monday games are taking their toll on all clubs, and Derry are no different. The Candystripes boss Kenny Shiels knows he has a job that do to pick his players up after their second-half capitulation to St Pats on Friday evening, and he’ll to do so without the services of midfielder Nicky Low. Shiels said, “We're managing a lot of tired limbs at the minute and we'll be without Nicky Low against Bray. He has done a really good job for us this season but he won't be available due to injury."
In saying that, Shiels knows that his side should be too good for Bray, “The players should enjoy playing Bray on a pitch with a bit of width, a bit more than when we went there recently. That said they're battling hard themselves so we'll get nothing for free."
"We have to bounce back after those last two games. There have been factors in both that we had no control over but we have to move on."
"There's no point on dwelling anymore on the things that happened. We need to get the positivity back and the only way to do that is by getting back to what we had been doing well."
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