A week after hitting the half-way point in the First Division campaign, the league is set to enter its annual two-week midseason break after this Friday’s round of fixtures, and taking all three points on offer from their trip to Ferrycarrig Park to take on Wexford FC (7.45pm) will see United’s players heading for the country’s airports with a spring in their step.

The players are understood to be getting a week away from the weekly routine of collective training – though they will be expected to do their own little bits and pieces while they down tools – and they won’t want to sour the holiday mood by dropping points against a side they have beaten twice already this season.

It took them a while to make their dominance count on the scoreboard in the first meeting between the sides back in April, but once David Hurley opened the scoring in first-half injury-time in Ferrycarrig Park, there was only going to be one winner, and second-half goals from Francely Lomboto, Darren Clarke, and Vince Borden sealed a 4-0 win.

They were far more comfortable than the final 2-0 scoreline suggests in the second meeting between the sides in May, when the visitors to Eamonn Deacy Park parked the bus in trying to keep the score down, which they at least managed to achieve.

They will welcome United to their home patch on a bit of decent form, having taken seven points from their last three games, and they possess a real thereat in Aaron Dobbs, a man who would look great in a United jersey not only in the second-half of this season, but in the top-flight next year as well.

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

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