Sligo Rovers will be aiming to maintain an unbeaten home Women’s Premier Division record when they welcome Waterford on Saturday evening in front of the TG4 cameras with the live action set for a 7.35pm kick-off.

This will be the first visit to the Showgrounds for Waterford,, who are the new faces in the Women’s Premier Division,, and both teams will be keen to find some improvement on last week’s results.

Sligo Rovers conceded four goals against Cork City at Turner’s Cross,, while Shelbourne fired four past Waterford at the RSC last Saturday as the Munster women played a historic first home game in the League of Ireland.

While Waterford will go into Saturday night’s encounter on the back of two defeats, they lost on the opening day (2-0) against Treaty Utd at the Markets Field; the Bit O’Red had an encouraging scoreless draw against Bohemians at the Showgrounds.

Manager Steve Feeney was disappointed with the performance last weekend and will be looking for a quick response from his players this Saturday night.

“That’s two games now,, and we haven’t scored. We will have to put that right quickly, but at least we created plenty of chances in Cork. The key now is to finish them,” he commented.

“We are certainly capable of winning the game against Waterford, but that won’t count for anything if we don’t deliver a performance on the pitch.

“We certainly won’t be underestimating the threat that Waterford will pose; we are not in any sort of a position to be doing something like that.

“Apart from the players who are still on the injured list, there are no new concerns from the Cork game. Leah Kelly, Keela Scanlon and Ciara Henry are still a few weeks from returning to action, but everyone else is fine.

“We will have to make sure we have the correct attitude going into the Waterford game; we will have to regroup and make sure we are ready to go on Saturday,” he concluded.

FOCUS ON WATERFORD

That first home game for Waterford was a huge occasion, and a crowd of 1,076 turned up at the RSC, where they were treated to a battling performance that included two penalty saves by talented goalkeeper Maeve Williams.

Waterford were in contention until about 25 minutes from time when Shelbourne managed four goals in a 10-minute spell, one from a penalty with the rest engineered from corners.

Waterford manager Gary Hunt will have taken plenty of positives from his team’s performance against the Dublin women.

“We will dust ourselves down after that game against Shelbourne, and we are looking forward to going to Sligo next Saturday,” commented the manager.

The game will be live on TG4 with kick-off at 7.35pm and free entry to the Showgrounds.