Magicme
19/03/2009, 10:37 AM
UCD v Monaghan United
This Friday Monaghan United travel to play UCD in their 2nd away game of the season. The ‘Students’ who made the drop from the Premier Division last season would appear to be keen on returning there without delay, they have collected all six points from their first two outings with win over Limerick and Sporting Fingal. They kicked off the new season with only one player from last years first X1 and had six players making their debut. Martin Russell is their new manager he was assistant to former manager Pete Mahon last season.
Our last outing against UCD was in the FORD/FAI Cup last season when we defeated them 1-0 at Belfield. United’s Manager Mick Cooke will be hoping for a repeat performance on Friday and on recent form against Longford and Shelbourne are more than capable of getting the results. Few who were at both games could dispute that Monaghan United were the better team for most of the two games and with a bit more luck should be on 6 points at this stage.
Hopefully we will again have a good turn out especially of our Dublin based supporters for the 7.45.p.m. kick off.
Injuries and Suspensions
Suspended : Aaron Mooney, Sean Brennan
Injuries : none
Results of Last fixtures
Monaghan United 0-1 Shelbourne FC
Longford Town 3-3 Monaghan United
Next 5 Fixtures
Fri Mar 20 UCD v Monaghan United 7.45.p.m.
Fri Mar27 Monaghan Utd v Mervue United 8.p.m.
Sat Apr 4 Limerick v Monaghan United 5.00.p.m.
Fri Apr 10 Monaghan United v Sporting Fingal 8.p.m.
Fri Apr 18 Waterford United v Monaghan United 7.45pm
Managers Quotes
“ I believe we were unlucky not to end up with at least a share of the points against Shelbourne and indeed with a bit more luck especially in the first half we could have taken all three. The encouraging thing was the way we performed. Shelbourne will be one of the top sides in the 1st. Division this season and I believe we had their measure for most of the contest; it was one of those type of games that you knew that a goal would settle it and unfortunately Shels got it. However play wise the 75th minute goal didn’t put us out of the game and we continued to put it up to them and came close to equalising.
If Shels are one of the top teams I believe that UCD would be one of the other sides that will impress this year and they are our next opponents on Friday night at ‘The Bowl’. We had a win there against them in the Cup last season, it was a tight game and we had to play out of our skins to beat them and they same type of performance will be required on Friday, not many teams will take away points from ‘The Bowl’ this season, however I believe that if we play to our true performance such as we demonstrated in the come back against Longford and the first half against Shels and very importantly a bit of luck we can get a result and kick start our season.
In Martin Russell they have a new manager, he was with them as assistant manager last season and most of the squad are new signings as well.
We had a good away support when we played them last time so hopefully we will have the same again on Friday night”
This Friday Monaghan United travel to play UCD in their 2nd away game of the season. The ‘Students’ who made the drop from the Premier Division last season would appear to be keen on returning there without delay, they have collected all six points from their first two outings with win over Limerick and Sporting Fingal. They kicked off the new season with only one player from last years first X1 and had six players making their debut. Martin Russell is their new manager he was assistant to former manager Pete Mahon last season.
Our last outing against UCD was in the FORD/FAI Cup last season when we defeated them 1-0 at Belfield. United’s Manager Mick Cooke will be hoping for a repeat performance on Friday and on recent form against Longford and Shelbourne are more than capable of getting the results. Few who were at both games could dispute that Monaghan United were the better team for most of the two games and with a bit more luck should be on 6 points at this stage.
Hopefully we will again have a good turn out especially of our Dublin based supporters for the 7.45.p.m. kick off.
Injuries and Suspensions
Suspended : Aaron Mooney, Sean Brennan
Injuries : none
Results of Last fixtures
Monaghan United 0-1 Shelbourne FC
Longford Town 3-3 Monaghan United
Next 5 Fixtures
Fri Mar 20 UCD v Monaghan United 7.45.p.m.
Fri Mar27 Monaghan Utd v Mervue United 8.p.m.
Sat Apr 4 Limerick v Monaghan United 5.00.p.m.
Fri Apr 10 Monaghan United v Sporting Fingal 8.p.m.
Fri Apr 18 Waterford United v Monaghan United 7.45pm
Managers Quotes
“ I believe we were unlucky not to end up with at least a share of the points against Shelbourne and indeed with a bit more luck especially in the first half we could have taken all three. The encouraging thing was the way we performed. Shelbourne will be one of the top sides in the 1st. Division this season and I believe we had their measure for most of the contest; it was one of those type of games that you knew that a goal would settle it and unfortunately Shels got it. However play wise the 75th minute goal didn’t put us out of the game and we continued to put it up to them and came close to equalising.
If Shels are one of the top teams I believe that UCD would be one of the other sides that will impress this year and they are our next opponents on Friday night at ‘The Bowl’. We had a win there against them in the Cup last season, it was a tight game and we had to play out of our skins to beat them and they same type of performance will be required on Friday, not many teams will take away points from ‘The Bowl’ this season, however I believe that if we play to our true performance such as we demonstrated in the come back against Longford and the first half against Shels and very importantly a bit of luck we can get a result and kick start our season.
In Martin Russell they have a new manager, he was with them as assistant manager last season and most of the squad are new signings as well.
We had a good away support when we played them last time so hopefully we will have the same again on Friday night”