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LOI preview: Shamrock Rovers face Cork City after European heartbreak

Three days after their interminable, groundbreaking European campaign came to an end in agonising fashion in front of Tallaght's South Stand, it's back to comparatively humdrum matters for Shamrock Rovers as they host Cork City in the league.

When all is said and done, Rovers played a whopping 18 games in European competition in 2024-25, an unprecedented number in an Irish context, albeit one which was partly facilitated by the more generous format in the Conference League this year.

Still, Rovers did themselves proud throughout the campaign, dispatching the Slovenian and Bosnian champions en route, securing a highly impressive draw away to Rapid Vienna and then taking Molde to the brink in the knockout phase.

Two days out from the Cork game, Bradley was understandably still inclined to reflect on a tumultuous night in Tallaght on Thursday.

"It is a hard one to take," the Hoops boss told the club website.

"We've had our staff review on the Molde game, we go through all our metrics on it so we’re not emotional thinking about it, and how we performed, and if we should’ve gone through.

"All the metrics tell us what we felt that we were the better team over both legs and we deserved to go through. But unfortunately, in life and in football, you don’t always get what you deserve."

Stephen Bradley's side have begun a curious tradition starting slowly in the league in recent years, going six games without a win at the start of the 2023 and then four without a victory at the start of last year.

They recovered to win the title - their fourth in a row - with a reasonable degree of comfort in '23. They surrendered their crown in '24 although culpability for that mainly lay with an early summer slump, prompted by a chronic injury crisis.

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