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The presence of five ex-Derry City players on the Sligo Rovers team sheet tomorrow night could ensure one of the toughest games of the season for the league leaders according to Stephen Kenny.
Owen Morrison, Brian Cash, Shaun Holmes, Stephen Parkhouse and Connor O Grady could all feature for the visitors in what promises to be a fascinating encounter with Paul Cook’s side.
And as far as Kenny is concerned, their presence on the pitch will just add to what is traditionally a difficult fixture for the Candy stripes. “There will be an added edge to the game but we’re expecting that,”
“Sligo have some good players. They won the game against Bray in midweek but we’re playing well ourselves and we must continue to believe and try to continue playing in the manner we are.
“We’ve started well at home. We’ve won two and we drew against Galway in a game we dominated so I think we’re playing well in the last couple of games but we’ll look to improve again.”
Kenny’s side remain top of the table after a fantastic win in Dublin against St. Pat’s earlier in the week and the City boss is hoping to round off what has been a trying eight days with a similar result tomorrow night.
“It’s a good reward against the top teams but we have to move on quickly,” he said. “We can’t dwell on it or pat ourselves on the back too much. It was a good win but now we have Sligo and if we can take three points against Sligo that would be seven from nine inside a week and that would be a decent return.”
Stephen Gray will miss the game through suspension after he saw red in Dublin while captain Peter Hutton is unlikely to feature after being taken to hospital with a lacerated groin injury. Nevertheless, Kenny is focusing on the positives and with Sammy Morrow back from injury and Thomas Stewart and Ciaran Martyn in exceptional goal scoring form, he is confident that come 10pm tomorrow night, his team will still be leading the way.
“We’ve scored ten in the first five games which is decent because the opposition hasn’t been too bad so we’ll look to build on that now,”
“Sligo are coming here and it will be a tough game and with all the ex-Derry players I think it will be a real competitive game.”
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