Wexford Youths vs Shelbourne

• Simon Carter
• Thu, Aug 07 2008




Ninth place Wexford Youths welcome fourth place Shelbourne to Ferrycarrig Park on Friday night for their eircom League First Division clash. (Kick-off 20.00).

Wexford come into this game on the back of two one nil defeats and will hope that they can cause an upset by beating the Dubliners who have been on a poor run of form of late registering only one win in eight league games.

Wexford welcome back the injured trio of Paul Murphy, Joey Wadding and Stuart Lawlor however Kyle Dempsey is injured. Manager Mick Wallace knows that his side will be in for a tough game.

"Beating Shelbourne will be a challenge," Wallace admitted. "We haven't been going as well as we would have liked of late and Shels are a strong side and I certainly wouldn't write them off for the title yet. There are 14 games left, so that's 42 points up for grabs and they are well capable of winning the title this year."

Wallace also believes that Dermot Keely and his side will be looking forward to his visit to Ferrycarrig Park.

"I know Shelbourne like coming down to us to play on our pitch, and I think Dermot will be looking forward to some good grub and a nice glass of wine down here as well, because I'm sure he doesn't get enough of it!"

Shelbourne will be without the services of Anto Flood and Andrei Francesco Georgescu who are both injured. Gary McCabe is suspended for the clash having gotten sent off last week. Alan Keely is not fully fit yet but could be introduced for the game on Friday.

Shelbourne are clear favourites for the game at odds of 5-6. A Wexford win is 11-4 whilst a draw is 9-4.

The game kicks off at 20.00.