Dunne disappointed with drab defeat
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As Cork City suffered their third home defeat on the bounce at the hands of Shelbourne at Turner’s Cross last night, Tommy Dunne cut a disappointed figure.
Still unbeaten on the road, their form on Leeside has let them down drastically and with five losses in total, keeping the rest of the season alive will be a struggle unless they start picking up wins.
“The home form is letting us down,” reckoned Dunne. “I don’t think we’re getting any luck either. We had chances and the goal we conceded was a bad goal. There were too many things, too many people standing off and not covering when a player breaks through. It has to be something that needs to be addressed.”
“We seem to be better on the road and we have two away games next so that might be better for us [to get some points].
“We’re just not getting the rub of it at the moment, but it will come good. It’s slow but it will come good. With the changes we’ve had, it takes a bit of time to settle down but at the end of it all it needs to settle down quickly.
Readers of Jonathan Wilson’s excellent “Inverting the Pyramid” will still be wondering why Cork line out so negatively at home, while the lack of aid to Graham Cummins up front on his lonesome certainly looks to be a problem.
Dunne did switch to 442 after falling behind but it yielded very little in terms of attacking moves forward and their distinct lack of creativity against Shels was the most disappointing factor on a dull and dreary evening.
“It’s something we have to look at. There is a reason why we play three in the middle and going to 442, we lose out in there. Everything was pretty much ok up until that time but I wanted to have a look and changing it gave us another player up front. A number of players just didn’t perform for us in the second half.
“We have to start getting disciplined, defend properly at crucial times in the game and stop switching off. There are one or two younger players that aren’t used to it and when they switch off it causes a few problems."
Still unbeaten on the road, their form on Leeside has let them down drastically and with five losses in total, keeping the rest of the season alive will be a struggle unless they start picking up wins.
“The home form is letting us down,” reckoned Dunne. “I don’t think we’re getting any luck either. We had chances and the goal we conceded was a bad goal. There were too many things, too many people standing off and not covering when a player breaks through. It has to be something that needs to be addressed.”
“We seem to be better on the road and we have two away games next so that might be better for us [to get some points].
“We’re just not getting the rub of it at the moment, but it will come good. It’s slow but it will come good. With the changes we’ve had, it takes a bit of time to settle down but at the end of it all it needs to settle down quickly.
Readers of Jonathan Wilson’s excellent “Inverting the Pyramid” will still be wondering why Cork line out so negatively at home, while the lack of aid to Graham Cummins up front on his lonesome certainly looks to be a problem.
Dunne did switch to 442 after falling behind but it yielded very little in terms of attacking moves forward and their distinct lack of creativity against Shels was the most disappointing factor on a dull and dreary evening.
“It’s something we have to look at. There is a reason why we play three in the middle and going to 442, we lose out in there. Everything was pretty much ok up until that time but I wanted to have a look and changing it gave us another player up front. A number of players just didn’t perform for us in the second half.
“We have to start getting disciplined, defend properly at crucial times in the game and stop switching off. There are one or two younger players that aren’t used to it and when they switch off it causes a few problems."
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