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Galway 1-13 Kerry 1-10
When you are bad, you may as well be super bad. In a match where nothing else was worth the final result, Galway rocked and rolled over Kerry and finally beat them in the football championship for the first time since Bob Dylan switched to electricity [19659003]. for a long time that Kerry played badly. The Munster champions only achieved double-digit scores within seven minutes of the injury period and at that point, Galway separated them and put the pieces all over the Croke Park. It was the complete dismantling of Kerry's atomic bomb.
Kerry scored 3-40 in his first two games to go that far, and at least some of that firepower was to land on Galway. Instead, the only thing that fell on Galway during most of the game was the lukewarm rain and the longer the game went on, the more Galway just licked it.
They hit Kerry where it hurt – their midfield and too much of their pace. Galway's only injury came in the proper painful way when they lost midfielder and leader Paul Conroy, who suffered a double fracture of his left shin bone after an accidental collision with Seán O. Shea after 22 minutes. After being treated for five minutes on the field, Conroy was taken on a medical buggy, his season over.
Galway, undaunted, always stood up to everything Kerry was throwing at them. There were missed duds at both ends, but Galway kept his head and mind to make sure more chances were scored. Shane Walsh did not miss a final of the Connacht Finals and was just as accurate here – hitting four of four, plus one of the games, his 0-5 one-of-the-year standings. ;afternoon.
Ian Burke and Sean Kelly traded Patrick Sweeney was not far off the bench when he finished Galway's goal in the fourth minute of overtime, Walsh and Burke ignited the counterattack that brought him back. skillfully placed in front of the goal.
Galway was 1-13 to 0-9, and Kerry was already on her knees. Manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice had emptied his bench in the hope of making a difference, but none of them did it. Kieran Donaghy was not one of them, but that would not have made any difference either, given how easily Galway led them.
Kerry also lost Killian Young on a red card at the hour, for a ball strike on Burke, a pure sign of their frustration. Their last two scores came on the death of David Clifford, a free goal and then a goal of a breakthrough ball that simply took Ruairi Lavelle off guard. Clifford finished with 1-5, clearly their best of the bad ground, James O 'Donoghue and Seán O' Shea left empty handed, Paul Geaney and Stephen O Brien both guilty of some soft chess.
It was a masterful On several fronts, Galway manager Kevin Walsh: his players stood up and found themselves in Kerry from the beginning, starting with Galway's defense, forcing enough turnovers and Bullet spills to immediately destabilize Kerry's nerves. Both teams were giving wider balls than expected, and after half an hour, Galway only scored three points on both of Kerry's – with nine pbades in between.
The rewards can also be fruitful: it was actually Galway's first win at Croke Park since they'd won All-Ireland in 2001, and immediately gave them pole position in Group 1 Super-8. Galway will face a Kildare already defeated at Newbridge next Sunday, while Kerry will head to Clones for an already victorious Monaghan. No prize for guessing the most daunting task – another defeat ending Kerry's interest in the Super-8s.
Galway can play better: Damien Comer was relatively calm, scoring only once in the game, while Adrian Varley the next day after scoring 0-2 on the bench. Declan Kyne and Johnny Heaney were electric on the wings and Gareth Bradshaw usually at the center of the defense, in full possession of O. Shea. They also finished with 14 men after Eoghan Kerin saw a second yellow for a deliberate foul on Clifford at the end of the extra time, but again that did not change Kerry's chances.
Can Kerry be so bad? All six of their first half-round could have been converted with a little more coolness, and in truth the slippery wet conditions were not suitable for their quick handling or the removal of the ball. The biggest problem was trying to break through Galway's defense, their lack of a decent goal chance before Clifford's late effort is only an indication of that. .
"It's as bad a performance as we've had," admits Fitzmaurice, the Kerry director appropriately looked at the stony face. "We did not go, we moved away from the pace, but the best team won. Galway won all the battles and at the end, David's goal put some respectability on the scoreboard, but we were not good enough
"We were predictable in advance, not dynamic or active as we can, it is disappointing, there is no way out of it, but we knew it would be a huge leap in the Munster championship, we do not have a lot to do. we were not carried away with it, even if we would not let ourselves be carried away by that.
"I think the game will bring us. We are aware that we are a work in progress. We are going in one direction but when you do that, you can get caught and today we met a Galway team that was a little more streetwise, down the line, and deserved the win. They are great time contenders but I would not have needed to confirm it today. "
GALWAY: 1 Lavelle R; 2 D Kyne (0-1), 3 O SA Ceallaigh, 22 E Kerin; 5 C Sweeney, 6 G Bradshow, 7 J Heaney; 8 P Conroy (0-1), 9 Thomas Flynn, 10 E Brannigan, 20 M Daly, 12 S Kelly (0-1), 13 I Burke (0-2), 14 D Comer (capt) (0-1), 15 S Walsh (0-5, four free)
Subs: 19 P Cooke for Conroy (22 mins, inj), 26 at Varley (0-2) for Daly (55 minutes), 24 G O & # 39; Donnell for Bradshaw (64 minutes) 25 P Sweeney (1-0) for Comer (65 minutes), 21 J Duanne for Flynn (74 minutes, black card), 18 F Burke for I Burke (75 minutes)
KERRY: 1 S Murphy (Capt) (0-1, a 45); 2 J Foley, 3 P Crowley; 4 B Beaglaoich; 5 Murphy, 19 K Young, 7 Gavin White; 8 D Moran, 9 J Barry, 10 K McCarthy (0-1), 11 S O 'Shea, 12 S O' Brien (0-1), 13 D Clifford (1-5, one free), 14 P Geaney (0 -2), 15 J O 'Donoghue
Submarines: 25 T O' Sullivan for Ó Beaglaoich (half time), 21 A Maher for Barry (46 minutes), 18 MB urns for O 'Donoghue (51 minutes), 23 M Griffin for Foley, 20 BJ Keane for McCarthy, 26 D Walsh for O' Shea (every 66 minutes)
Referee: Barry Cbadidy (Derry)
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