United captain says team are well placed but players need to work on concentration

Galway United’s start to the season has been something of the curate’s egg – partly bad and partly good – as despite producing some very average performances, the Tribesmen are still second in the table, just two points off top spot.

They have scored in every game they have played, and have lost just once, but they have yet to produce a full 90-minute performance – as good as the win away to Cork City was, it was very much a defensive effort, mainly due to the fact they had to play almost all of the second-half with 10 men.

Club captain Conor McCormack admits that the side have been poor in some of their games this season, but believes there is only the slightest of tweaks needed to see United become the well-piled machine he knows they can become: cutting out individual mistakes.

In an eight-minute interview after last weekend’s disappointing 1-1 draw at home to Wexford, the man known as ‘Badge’ mentions “individual mistakes” eight times, and says once the players cut out those lapses in concentration, the performances and results will follow.

“It was an individual error that kind of knocked us back and we are climbing a mountain then,” he says about conceding the opening goal against Wexford, when a slip by Killian Brouder allowed Aaron Dobbs to race clear and score.

“It has happened a couple of times already this season, I think it is just a lack of concentration, we work really hard and if we could avoid those situations, we’d have a lot more points on the board, but we are happy with the first quarter, we are right up there.

“We have scored some good goals, it is just the individual errors that have caught us. We were by far the dominant team [against Wexford], I don’t think they had a shot on target bar the goal which came from a mistake.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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