PREVIEW: DUNDALK v BOHEMIANS
May 13, 2022
Bohemians put in one of their best performances of the season in last week’s draw away to league leaders Derry City.
Now they want to follow it up in what is another tough away game away to Dundalk in Oriel Park this evening.
Three points separate the sides tonight with Dundalk in fourth on 22 and Bohs in sixth on 19.
Bohs will take confidence going into the game after impressing on Foyleside last week.
Promise Omochere’s fifth goal of the season gave Bohs the lead on 15 minutes but a shocking decision to award Derry City levelled up the game, and that is how it finished.
It is a measure of Bohs’ performance and the chances that they created that they came away from one of the most difficult grounds in the league to get a result disappointed that they were not travelling home with all three points.
Liam Burt, who set up Omochere’s goal, said: “It felt like two points dropped. We always try to go up there and win.
“To go up there and perform as well as we did. We were disappointed with the penalty decision but we could have gone on to win it – we had the better chances in the last 10/15 minutes so we were disappointed.”
Having missed the opening three games of the season through injury, coming off the bench as a substitute in the next three, Burt has really found his groove since, starting eight games in succession where he has helped himself to three goals and three assists.
He said: “The first few games when I was coming in for 15 minutes of so, I was just finding my feet a bit.
“In the last number of games I have felt a lot more like myself. I am getting back to what I used to be. Hopefully I can continue that.”
He hopes that will be the case this evening when Keith Long’s men face Stephen O’Donnell’s Lilywhites.
Burt added: “We had a really good week of training last week and I think that showed in our performance against Derry.
“The full week leading up to a game gives us a good run of training, analysis and workouts.
“Dundalk are in great form. It will be a tough ask to go up there to get a result but we are going up there positive.
“We have a lot of things going for us. We had a good win last week so we want to continue that.”
TEAM NEWS
Jordan Flores (illness) returns to the squad against his former club having been a late withdrawal last week, while Rory Feely (ankle) is making good progress and could also be in line to return.
Grant Horton (knee) remains a doubt, James Finnerty is out after taking a blow to the head in training, while Stephen Mallon (ankle) remains out.
