Goal famine continues as Galway FC fail to hit the target again

Galway FC 0

Shamrock Rovers B 0

THE offer by a local business of a free suit to the first Galway FC player to score in the SSE Airtricity League might have to be amended to include a box of moth balls after Tommy Dunne’s side failed to find the net for the third successive league game on Friday night.

Galway FC are still looking for their first win of the season and, more worryingly, their first goal, after a shocker of a scoreless draw in Eamonn Deacy Park on Friday night. They had enough chances to win five games never mind one, and if this continues, it is going to be a long hard season for the league’s newest side.

The most damning aspect was the fact that, for all their possession – and the second half was played in almost its entirety in the Shamrock Rovers’ half – the home side failed to work Michael Kelly in the Rovers’ goal, and considering the young ’keeper looked a nervous wreck at the best of times, that was a major disappointment.

There was the element of luck being against Galway, who hit the woodwork twice and also saw one of their own players take a goal-bound effort off the line, but really, if you want to make any kind of impression in the league, then you have to be winning home games against second-string sides who are, quite literally, only there to make up the numbers.

“I thought we pretty much dominated the game from start to finish in regards to territory and possession, but you need to score goals. We created a lot of chances, but just didn’t have the finish. You’re playing against a young team – I’ll be honest and straight forward, you have to be beating that a team at home, and that’s not being disrespectful to them, you need to be able to beat those guys,” Dunne said after the game.

He said he felt that had they scored one, then the goals would have started to flow, but he admitted there is a lot of work needed on finishing chances, and he said it was very much a case of two points dropped.

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