Galway United 1

Treaty United 0

Keith Kelly at Eamonn Deacy Park

GALWAY United made it four wins from eight meetings with Treaty United when Rob Slevin’s headed goal seven minutes from half-time last Friday was enough to secure all three points for the Tribesmen.

The Limerick side have been obdurate opponents for United ever since they joined the league two years ago, with meetings between the sides always tense, cagey affairs. In only two of those eight games has a side scored more than once, and all four of United’s wins have been by a single goal – the other four meetings all ended in draws.

So it was again on Friday: the visitors were happy to sit deep, inviting United to try to break them down, and while the home side did create some decent chances from play, it took a goal from a set-piece to seal the points.

That is possibly the one little niggle of concern from United’s first two games of the season: while you can’t argue with two wins from two, the goals have come from a sitting central midfielder (2) and a central defender, and two of the three goals have been from set-pieces.

The defence was rock-solid again on Friday, both in terms of protecting their own goal – the visitors had just two shots of note in the game – and also in providing another outlet in attack. Full-backs Colm Horgan and Regan Donelon once again looked to get forward whenever they could, and Slevin and Killian Brouder barely let Enda Curran have a sniff of the ball throughout the 90 minutes.

The new-look central midfielder pairing of Vince Borden and club captain, Conor McCormack, also shone for a second consecutive game: Borden has the legs to get around the pitch that was missing from the McCormack-Dave Hurley axis last season, and that has meant that McCormack’s nous for the game is allowed to shine brighter.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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