Louth take on Armagh and Tyrone host Mayo in Round 2A seeking quarter-final places
Rafferty scores a two-point free, well taken straight over and it’s back level again. Then finally Armagh’s first wide of the day from Conaty. Maguire scores a point that looked wide from the TV angle, but the umpire says it was over, it comes after Grimes had given Louth the lead.
Louth take the lead briefly. McDonnell swivelled well to level the scores, then Louth won the kickout and it ended with Downey scoring a third point of the match. Armagh went up the pitch though and equalised again. Downey with a wonder score, given it a bit of Owen Mulligan, not one but two dummies selling the defence and scoring it over.
The crowd enjoyed that one. Then Armagh race forward, going for goal, but McCormack loses the ball at the end. Mulroy does well to win a free and then drills a two-point free off the ground, beautiful strike. Louth back to within one.
Rafferty showing his class with a great pass and Conaty sends the back the wrong way to score. Mulroy get his first score of the game, fantastic kick under pressure and then wins the kickout to exert his influence.
Then Ryan Burns scores to get it back to a goal in it. Rafferty getting well involved in Armagh’s attacks as McQuillan scores, but Louth immediately respond through Maguire. McIlroy is taken down about 20 metres out and Turbitt scores the free to go back to three points in the difference. Dara McDonnel gets Louth’s first point of the day, well taken, and they show they’re settling into the game with another from Ciarán Downey.
Great start by Armagh who fly up the pitch in waves, with fist passes through the Louth defence and then finished low by corner back Gareth Murphy. Then McConville shows his pace to burst through and score. , coming from seven points down to book their place in the quarter-finals.
Then in win-or-go home games, Monaghan comprehensively beat Roscommon, Kerry were too strong for Kildare and Meath edged past Derry in a thrilling final game of the day. , at Inniskeen in Monaghan, at 1pm.
Then we have Galway v Westmeath and Cavan v Dublin, before the final match of Tyrone v Mayo. Most of these matches are for a place in the quarter-finals, but the loser of Cavan v Dublin gets eliminated.
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