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- Thursday May 22nd, 2025 @ 16:00
Match Preview Saints Vs Waterford (23/05/25)
St Patrick's Athletic will continue a busy month of May by hosting Waterford FC at Richmond Park.
THE MATCH
SAINTS SCENE
LAST TIME OUT
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FROM THE DUG OUT:
We let ourselves down on Monday (at Shamrock Rovers) losing in the manner that we did, that's the first time that has happened to us to lose in that way, convincingly in the end so we've got the respond in the right way.
The seesaw nature of the League and the way it is, two weeks ago we were top of the table after beating Galway, and scored two excellent late goals to beat Cork last Friday. We've had a couple of defeats and we've got to bounce back from Monday and try to get the victory against Waterford.
Waterford have beaten Shelbourne, Bohemians, Derry and Galway recently, they are obviously in good form. From our point of view, even allowing for the disappointment of losing on Monday, if we win tomorrow we probably go second or third in the League so that's where we are.
The halfway point is next week against Sligo so we want a strong finish. Waterford are obviously in great form, but if we can win this game, it puts us a strong position, considering so many things have gone wrong for us this season, we've lost Romal Palmer this week for a further extended period which is a disappointment because he is such a brilliant individual and a terrific player and an important member of the squad so a lot of injury issues.
The players have still scored a lot of goals, we're still the second top scorers in the division so we want to try to keep that home form going, we're unbeaten at Richmond since last June which is a considerable amount of time so we want to continue in that vein and try to get that victory."
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PLAYER VIEW:
Joe Redmond: "Monday at Shamrock Rovers was a tough night for us, we weren't good enough and it was difficult for us, we've reviewed it and we have to deal with it and learn from it and what went wrong, take it on the chin and hold our hands up and take responsibility.
Obviously there is a disappointment when you lose like that, but we've got to get the mood back up really quickly, we're confident that we are a good team and a good squad.
We have to try to move on from it quickly as the games come so quickly in the League. If we let it dwell it would impact us on Friday
Tomorrow we've got another home game which we're all buzzing for because we want to put that game in Tallaght behind us a quickly as possible and we have to shown a reaction to that. We look back to three weeks ago and we were top so we've got to try to put a little run together and if we can get a few wins we can be right back up there and that has to start tomorrow."
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