Couple of late points from the boot of the Dublin colossus fends off Coolera/Strandhill fightback
All-Ireland Club SFC semi-finals: Cuala 0-14 Coolera/Strandhill 0-9There was not a whole pile between these two teams with 60 minutes played at Kingspan Breffni, just three points, but when the need was greatest,
In the process, the Dalkey outfit placed themselves within 60 minutes of joining Cork’s St Finbarr’s as the only club to have won both All-Ireland senior football and hurling titles. But they will ultimately reflect on a first 40 minutes or so when they fell into Cuala’s slipstream and simply left themselves with too much to do.
It worked, to a point. Murphy did get on the ball plenty of times and shot a terrific score in the 10th minute from the right despite being heavily tracked.But Murphy also dropped a score attempt short and kicked two wides, once after a free he won himself, leaving the Connacht champions with just two points in the credit column for the entire first-half.
Cuala hit the interval with a 0-6 to 0-2 lead and were good value for it as they played a controlled game in the worsening foggy conditions.
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