McCormack and Rowe both forced off in preseason friendly with Sligo Rovers
Galway United continued their preseason campaign with a tough workout against Sligo Rovers in Eamonn Deacy Park on Wednesday afternoon, but things did not go entirely to plan, with a couple of players forced off through injury.
Conor McCormack picked up an arm injury just midway through the first-half while Mikie Rowe hobbled off five minutes into the second-half of a game that finished 1-1 at a bitterly cold afternoon just across from the banks of the Corrib.
Neither injury is thought to be of the serious variety – McCormack picked up a gash to his arm after Jordan Gibson’s accidentally stepped on the United midfielder after fouling him; while Rowe felt a slight strain to his calf and, after getting a bang on his ankle, he went down for attention before being substituted.
“It was just one of those ones,” United manager, John Caulfield, said about the McCormack incident after the game.
“The fella stood on his hand, so we took him off. It was stinging him for a bit, but he thinks he is okay, he felt he could go back on but we couldn’t make that change. For that first 30 minutes he was typical middle of the park busy, cutting out the danger, he did well,” said the United manager of a player who led the side out for the game, and is likely to be named as captain for the season in the next week or so.
“Mikie Rowe, he was doing well, but he felt the calf a bit and he got a kick on the ankle so you know, just a precaution, you take him off. He got a game against Finn Harps, and 50 minutes today, so we’re happy,” Caulfield said of Rowe.
Caulfield started the game with a 3-man defence of Maurice Nugent, Gary Boylan and Stephen Walsh, who were flanked by Conor O’Keeffe and David Hurley operating as two wing backs.
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