Late heartbreak for Galway FC

Galway FC 0

Shelbourne 1

It may be early days for the league newest club, but Galway FC is already amassing a lengthy list of hard-luck stories, and Friday night’s was yet another when a solid display went completely unrewarded as Shelbourne nicked all three points with a goal 17 seconds short of the full-time whistle.

It was the most heartbreaking of ends to a game in which the hosts were comfortably the better side for all bar the opening 15 minutes, and while it may already start to sound like a broken record, the simple fact of the matter is that if it wasn’t for bad luck, Tommy Dunne’s side would have no luck at all.

“To concede so late on was a sickener,” Dunne said after the game. “We went for it right at the death. We could have sat back and taken a point, but we wanted three and that was the case right from the start. We are bitterly disappointed,” was his assessment of that defining moment of the game.

 “I think we outplayed them, but you have to be careful. You have to make sure that when you outplay a team that you get your just reward and not be a hard luck story. I cannot fault the effort of the players, they were at it from the start.

“They were looking to try to score to win the match. From that aspect I cannot fault them, but maybe at crucial times we lacked that little bit of know-how. We went to try to get a goal at the death and we got done at the other end,” he said.

They now face in to successive away games against Wexford Youths this Friday, and Longford Town on Saturday week, needing a couple of wins to stay in touch with the early pace-setters.