CABINTEELY MISSED A chance to seal a place in the First Division play-offs with a 5-1 defeat away to UCD tonight.
Cabo, who saw youth product Jason Knight make his senior international debut on Wednesday, knew a win tonight would be good enough to secure a place-off spot following Wexford’s forfeiting of four games from earlier in the year having fielded an ineligible player.
Instead, it is UCD who have boosted their play-off prospects with a comfortable win, and they are now third in the league, albeit having played more games than their immediate rivals.
The game was goalless at the break, with a Yoyo Mahdy goal in the opening stages of the second half breaking the floodgates. Colm Whelan and Liam Kerrigan then added another couple of goals for the students, before Kieran Waters pulled a goal back for the visitors.
UCD added further gloss to the result, however, with goals from Danu Kinsella Bishop and Mahdy.
Elsewhere, the other First Division game of the night between Wexford and Drogheda was postponed after a positive Covid case among the Wexford squad.
Glad TJV got the stage win for van Hooydonck. You could see what it meant to Vingegaard at the end.
Although Vingo is crazy good, would love to see Kuss win the Vuelta. And I mean WIN it and not handed it by team orders. Although not sure what team orders are for TJV.
@Kevin Dillon: Angliru tomorrow will reveal all. Looks like they’re going with a strategy of having Vingegaard attack and force the others to decide between trying to follow him (and ideally have Kuss and Roglic sit on their wheel) or wait behind with Kuss. Apparently van Hooydonck is awake and doing well which is great news in what has been a horrific year in the peloton.
I would also love to see Kuss win it, and as you say not be handed it which jumbo could possibly do. To be fair though their best option is letting Jonas attack and see if Kuss can just sit on whoever tries to follow and if he ends up in red at the end brilliant. Putting all their eggs in one basket and using up Jonas and Roglic to be domestique for Kuss would be dangerous even though he’s in red and deservedly so but not sure he would be able to respond to attack after attack. Cracking race and fantastic tactics and options from JV as usual.
@sean murphy: 100% on jumbo’s tactics.ostly always get them right.