WNL Preview: Cork City Women's FC v Wexford Youths Women's AFC

• Extratime Team
• Sun, Nov 09 2014




CORK City Women’s FC welcome the leaders to Bishopstown on Sunday bidding to bounce back from last week’s difficult trip to Castlebar where a depleted side lost 5-1.

 

Stacey Paul and Natalie Coughlan return after work commitments and Angie Carry is back after a one game suspension. Fiona Considine and Natalie Coughlan have both returned to light training but Nathalie O’Brien is still out for the foreseeable future with a broken leg.

 

Cork manager Charlie Lynch is optimistic going into the game. He said: “Last time out against Wexford we narrowly lost 1-0 in Ferrycarrig Park.

 

“Wexford are presently leading the league and we know it will be a tough game, however with a near full-strength squad to pick from and the close score-line last time we played I am looking for a strong performance from our girls.”

 

Wexford boss Willie Doyle will be looking to see his side maintain their lead at top of division but has injury concerns to cope with. Jenny Clifford suffered an aggravation of her recent knee injury, Amy Walshe suffered a knock playing for Carlow, Orlaith Conlon, Beccy Hayden and Orla Hickey are also out.

 

“We’ve stull a lot of work to do and improvements can be made. We’re taking each game at a time,” said Doyle.

 

“Cork have improved this season and we saw that with the two games we saw earlier this season. Our players have been used to being overlooked finishing third twice in a row and the big two were always ahead of them. We won’t consider ourselves in a title challenge until we’ve more games against the main sides such as Raheny, UCD and Peamount under our belts.”