Pembroke 0 UCD 0
Pembroke will be the happier after a 0-0 draw with UCD at Serpentine Avenue tonight, especially after surviving numerous penalty corners. The point pushes them one ahead of Old Alex in fourth place, whom they play on Saturday at 12pm, with a draw there guaranteeing them a place in next year's IHL.
For UCD, gaining fourth is now impossible and so requalifying for the IHL will rest on getting a result against Hermes and hoping it is enough to earn a wildcard place.
Having said that, they will be pleased with the performance tonight ahead of the ISC final. Rachel Burke's deflection flashed across goal and Catriona McGlip saw her one-on-one with Jane Coyne brilliantly tipped around the post.
7 comments:
In my opinion ucd have played some superb hockey this year and desverve an IHL place above alex.
Good hockey from UCD tonight where they did everything but score! Makes it very tight for that 5th place. Looking forward to Sunday now. They are up for it! The senior cup to stay in Leinster!
UCD may have played some superb hockey but obviously don't deserve an IHL place if they didn't get results. With 2 senior internationals in their side (forwards) and scoring only only 20 league goals this season is it surprising they don't get an automatic place? Not disputing that they played superb hockey but not superb enough.
results results results!!!! Sometimes you have to ignore the nice hockey you want to play so that you can get the result you need. It is unforgiveable to get so many short corners in a match and yet fail to force the keeper into at least making some saves. UCD should be very disappointed since they were clearly the better side in what was for me a very scrappy fixture
Re:10.11AM
I was under the impression that Jane Coyne had quite a number of saves to make last night!
At the end of the season the table will show who deserves the IHL spots, not personal opinions. If you play nice hockey and don't score goals to win matches you can't blame anyone else for results.
The students will just have to try and get a result out of their Hermes match which will be tough if one looks at the league table but should be easy if they are playing such superb hockey.
UCD may have been playing some "superb" hockey at the start of the season and beat tough teams to get to the final but i have watched them in there last few matches and havent felt they have been all that great. Watched them last night against pembroke and they were average, but desreved to win but couldn't put away there chances.
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