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Even with progress to the semi-finals of the Setanta Sports Cup assured, Bohemians manager Pat Fenlon is focusing his team on winning Saturday’s final pool game against Glentoran. “We still want to win this match to guarantee a home second leg in the semi-finals,” Fenlon said. “We’re happy enough with how the season has started – two competitive games, two wins. But we want to keep that up.” Fenlon has had Glentoran watched a few times since the teams met over six months ago (2-1 to Bohemians at the Oval Grounds). He had a representative at the Oval again last Saturday when Glentoran lost an Irish Cup quarter-final to their major rivals and league-leaders Linfield. Glentoran are currently third in the league they won last year, though they have won just four of their last ten league matches. In this all-Ireland contest of champions, Bohemians have the edge, being unbeaten in the competition so far. After a lapse of several months Bohs returned to Setanta Cup action two weeks ago with a 3-1 win away to Coleraine. But Jason Byrne picked up a hip injury in that game and is not available for Saturday, while the three recently signed ex-Derry players, Stephen Gray, Ruaidhri Higgins and Gareth McGlynn are cup-tied. Fenlon says he now knows his best starting line-up when all players are available but he is forced to adapt for Saturday. “We’ll change it around a bit and give a chance to a few lads who didn’t play on Friday,” he said. |
