Doolin delighted with "important" win
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IT HAS been a case of battening down the hatches and weathering the storm for Cork City manager Paul Doolin in these last few weeks.
His side had endured a rough ride into the mid-season break, having lost three of their last four league matches, a similar fate to that being suffered by Friday night’s opponents Galway United.
Whether they are entirely back on track and ready to challenge the league leaders again remains to be seen, but for Friday at least, a 2-0 away victory went a long way to easing the mounting pressure.
“It was good to get a win because it was important,” Doolin said.
“There’s a long way to go in the league, I think 18 games and 18 to go and that’s an awful long way to go. I just feel if we can just hang in there, we’ve had an indifferent spell, and I think the important thing is when you’re not playing well, if you can just pick up some results and that was a good result tonight and then Tuesday night we’ve got Pat's.
“I think in the previous four league games we’d only picked up one point, although I thought we did deserve something from those games. We probably shot ourselves in the foot in many of those games with bad goals, but I think any away win in the League is always good.”
New-found giant killers Dundalk, who added Derry to their list of recent conquests on Friday, had handed Cork their last defeat before the break. But Doolin reiterated the narrow gap between any side in the league this season and believed surprises would continue to be sprung through the remaining months of the season.
“I think the league is probably like that this year because we’ve lost to Dundalk, that was our last game before the break,” he said.
“Now in fairness, we gave two bad goals away and I felt we probably should have at least had a draw there, but that’s the way the league is, teams at the bottom, whether you’re playing Pat's or Bohs or Derry or Bray or Galway or Drogheda, they all cause you trouble and that’s the way the league will be until the end.”
His side had endured a rough ride into the mid-season break, having lost three of their last four league matches, a similar fate to that being suffered by Friday night’s opponents Galway United.
Whether they are entirely back on track and ready to challenge the league leaders again remains to be seen, but for Friday at least, a 2-0 away victory went a long way to easing the mounting pressure.
“It was good to get a win because it was important,” Doolin said.
“There’s a long way to go in the league, I think 18 games and 18 to go and that’s an awful long way to go. I just feel if we can just hang in there, we’ve had an indifferent spell, and I think the important thing is when you’re not playing well, if you can just pick up some results and that was a good result tonight and then Tuesday night we’ve got Pat's.
“I think in the previous four league games we’d only picked up one point, although I thought we did deserve something from those games. We probably shot ourselves in the foot in many of those games with bad goals, but I think any away win in the League is always good.”
New-found giant killers Dundalk, who added Derry to their list of recent conquests on Friday, had handed Cork their last defeat before the break. But Doolin reiterated the narrow gap between any side in the league this season and believed surprises would continue to be sprung through the remaining months of the season.
“I think the league is probably like that this year because we’ve lost to Dundalk, that was our last game before the break,” he said.
“Now in fairness, we gave two bad goals away and I felt we probably should have at least had a draw there, but that’s the way the league is, teams at the bottom, whether you’re playing Pat's or Bohs or Derry or Bray or Galway or Drogheda, they all cause you trouble and that’s the way the league will be until the end.”
