BY MATTHEW WILSON
FINN Harps are back in action this Friday night when they make the trip to the capital for a meeting with William O’Connor’s UCD.
Finn Harps are coming into this encounter off the back of a 2-0 home defeat to Cobh Ramblers, with goals from Garry Buckley and Rhys Kelly-Noonan earning the visitors the three points.
This Friday’s opponents, UCD, are on a solid run of form of late. They are unbeaten in their last four outings courtesy of victories over Cobh Ramblers and Athlone Town before sharing the spoils with Wexford FC and Kerry FC.
The pair have already met once so far this term, with Kevin McHugh’s side coming away from Finn Park with the three points courtesy of a narrow 2-1 win.
Speaking to the Donegal News ahead of the encounter, Finn Harps defender Josh Cullen expressed that the group will head into this Friday’s contest with belief that they can secure the three league points.
“We’ll go into it full of confidence”, said Cullen. “We’ll head into it fully confident that we can win the game. We’ll put the Cobh Ramblers game behind us now, we’ll look forward to UCD and we’ll put our best foot forward.”
Despite picking up a couple of draws throughout the years, the UCD venue hasn’t been the happiest of hunting grounds for the Navenny Street club, with their last league victory there coming back in 2015.
However, McHugh’s outfit have already gotten rid of one unwanted record against the Students this year, beating them in the league for the first time since 2019, so they’ll be hoping to end another one on Friday night.
Cullen says that he doesn’t pay much attention to statistics like that heading into games and the plan is to put in a solid performance and pick up the three points.
“Exactly. I suppose you don’t go in thinking about those things, you just go up wanting to win the game and as I said, just putting your best foot forward, being full of confidence and seeing where it takes you from there.”