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Mervue United -v- Sporting Fingal
- Extratime Team
- Tue, Aug 10 2010
Mervue United will look to take the Premier Division scalp of cup holders Sporting Fingal on Tuesday evening when the sides meet in Terryland Park in their FAI Ford Cup third round replay. The sides met at the Morton Stadium with the game finishing 1-1. KO: 7.45pm
Shaun Maher will miss the game due to suspension. The centre-back was sent-off when they the holders opened their defence with a 1-1 draw. Maher played in Fingal’s 1-0 win against Galway United on Friday in the Airtricity League Premier Division but sits out the club’s second visit to Terryland Park in the space of four days.
Also unavailable are injured duo Keith Quinn (foot) and Colin Hawkins (broken ribs). Quinn should be recovered in time for Friday’s visit of Dundalk while Hawkins is on the comeback trail too having resumed full training this week.
Fingal manager Liam Buckley has his sights firmly set on progressing to the next round of the Cup.
“Mervue United tested us in the first match at Morton and we’ll have to be sharper to get through this replay,” he said. “We’ve a proud FAI Ford Cup record in our previous two years and will take this game very seriously. I’ll be putting out our strongest available starting side.
“The Terryland pitch the lads played on last Friday was in much better condition that when we visited earlier in the season so that’s to be welcomed. “Our win at Galway United was imperative our league prospects and we’ll be looking for another victory to maintain hopes of repeating last season’s triumph in the competition.”
“I was very disappointed with the performance on Saturday V Finn Harps”, Mervue United manager Tom French said. “To date this was our poorest performance yet. Too many lads didn’t perform on the night. We lacked creativity, passion and had no one to take the game by the scruff of the neck and drive us on. We had a few school boy errors to gift them the first two goals and the lads know that this is not acceptable, With 11 games left we will get back to basics and work hard to cut out the mistakes.”
