‘We deserved to win the game’

THE Bray Wanderers express may be slowing down but it won’t be halting at panic station. Six points from the last 18 available have seen the Seagulls slip from second spot to third and they now Derry City and Shamrock Rovers breathing down their necks.

Harry Kenny may have been treated to a clean sheet on Tuesday last but the stalemate against Drogheda was a letdown. And twice submitting a lead against Sligo Rovers also frustrated the Bray boss.

“The corner kick (for Sligo’s first)was very disappointing because we speak about that all the time. You shouldn’t give away goals from set pieces. I’m still trying to figure out where their second one came from…during the play and the centre-half got up and got it?! I don’t know where he came from.

“It was a disappointing result. I think overall we deserved to win the game – we were certainly better in the first half. They came into it for 20/25 minutes in the

second half but we rallied again then looking for the winner but it just wasn’t to be.”

The result also meant that of Bray’s last three home games, against three sides in the bottom three at that time, they’ve accrued two points. Kenny is confident that his side will bounce back.

“You have to be winning your home games and particularly against teams that are in the bottom half of the table. That’s points dropped against Bohs and another two tonight and if you have any aspirations in getting into the top four then you shouldn’t be dropping those points.

“We’re doing fantastic as it is. We’re thrilled where we are – we’re in third. We’ll just keep grinding it out at training and get back at it and keep doing what we were doing in the first half of the season which was obviously right. All teams go through this – Dundalk had theirs earlier on in the season and Derry had theirs too. Football is like this; you’ll have these blips but it’s how you come out of them and address it (that counts).”