Maximum return a must for City

Having coughed up late goals in three successive games, Cork City will be keen to make life a bit more comfortable for themselves against UCD in their Airtricity League Premier Division meeting at Turner’s Cross tonight (7.45pm).

City’s habit of shipping 11th hour blows has already cost them on the table, with what had looked a likely return of seven points reduced to a mere two by the concession of goals in the dying minutes against Derry City, Shamrock Rovers and Drogheda. Had that five-point deficit been avoided, Cork would now be in joint-third with Dundalk, instead of joint-seventh with Limerick and St Pats.

On the plus side, City retain a game in hand on the majority of the teams above them but that probably only adds to the pressure to extract maximum points from this evening’s game against the division’s basement side.