We’ll be fine - Cork boss Dunne
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Their unbeaten record is still intact but Cork City boss Tommy Dunne knows his side will need to win away from home this Friday against Waterford United to keep the pressure up on current leaders Shelbourne after the Leesiders were forced to come from behind twice to draw with Monaghan United last weekend.
“I suppose you’re happy from that aspect,” Dunne said after goals from Graham Cummins and Davin O’Neill saw City get a point. “But from my side of things, we dominated the first half after the five minute spell where they came out of the blocks quite well. We had three great chances to be 3-1 up at half-time, playing really good football.
“Second half I thought it was pretty much the same again, we were the stronger team and dominated before being dealt with a sucker punch. To give credit to Declan O’Brien, he seems to have a bit of hunger and he’s a decent striker when hungry.”
Only for O’Brien Mons wouldn’t have gotten anything from the game, but Dunne was still happy with how Cork played despite their third draw in four games.
“Overall I’m happy with the performance, our general play was good and Davin O’Neill was outstanding for us. He was hungry, quick and showed good feet. In general I’m happy with the performance but not the result. I thought we’d done enough to be in the lead with the chances we created.”
Cummins had made it 1-1 with a well-taken goal nearing half-time, a promising sign for last season’s top goalscorer, but the City boss also knows that they need to be converting more chances with all the possession they’ve had in recent games.
“Graham will be fine once he gets going,” Dunne commented. “He looked hungry again tonight. There are little aspects though, like getting in the final third and sometimes we get a nosebleed by trying the impossible.
“We just have to be patient sometimes. If we go behind we just have to keep playing because it’ll come. It came in the end for us and I was delighted with the way we played in front of fantastic support.
“When you end up in a game like that, it’s where things like the Athlone result [0-0 draw away from home a week earlier] hurts you. In saying that, it’s still early days, we’re not too far off the pace and we’ll be fine.”
Roddy Collins had slated Dunne in the lead up to the game, proclaiming he was ‘a boy doing a man’s job,’ but the Dubliner played down the comments after the game, despite neither manager making an effort to shake hands after the game.
“It didn’t bother me one way or the other. At the end of it all, I’m in the game long enough now, so he can say what he likes. We’ve our standards at this club, we won’t lower to that.”
“I suppose you’re happy from that aspect,” Dunne said after goals from Graham Cummins and Davin O’Neill saw City get a point. “But from my side of things, we dominated the first half after the five minute spell where they came out of the blocks quite well. We had three great chances to be 3-1 up at half-time, playing really good football.
“Second half I thought it was pretty much the same again, we were the stronger team and dominated before being dealt with a sucker punch. To give credit to Declan O’Brien, he seems to have a bit of hunger and he’s a decent striker when hungry.”
Only for O’Brien Mons wouldn’t have gotten anything from the game, but Dunne was still happy with how Cork played despite their third draw in four games.
“Overall I’m happy with the performance, our general play was good and Davin O’Neill was outstanding for us. He was hungry, quick and showed good feet. In general I’m happy with the performance but not the result. I thought we’d done enough to be in the lead with the chances we created.”
Cummins had made it 1-1 with a well-taken goal nearing half-time, a promising sign for last season’s top goalscorer, but the City boss also knows that they need to be converting more chances with all the possession they’ve had in recent games.
“Graham will be fine once he gets going,” Dunne commented. “He looked hungry again tonight. There are little aspects though, like getting in the final third and sometimes we get a nosebleed by trying the impossible.
“We just have to be patient sometimes. If we go behind we just have to keep playing because it’ll come. It came in the end for us and I was delighted with the way we played in front of fantastic support.
“When you end up in a game like that, it’s where things like the Athlone result [0-0 draw away from home a week earlier] hurts you. In saying that, it’s still early days, we’re not too far off the pace and we’ll be fine.”
Roddy Collins had slated Dunne in the lead up to the game, proclaiming he was ‘a boy doing a man’s job,’ but the Dubliner played down the comments after the game, despite neither manager making an effort to shake hands after the game.
“It didn’t bother me one way or the other. At the end of it all, I’m in the game long enough now, so he can say what he likes. We’ve our standards at this club, we won’t lower to that.”
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