Pat Horgan scores 1-10 for Rebels with his goal marking a turning point in the contest
Cork's Brian Hayes scores a goal despite the attempts of Offaly's Ben Conneely to block him during the All-Ireland SHC preliminary quarter-final at Glenisk O'Connor Park in Tullamore. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/InphoConnolly struck a hat-trick when Cork previously visited O’Connor Park in the National League and the Rebels ran riot that day, scoring 5-28.
A clear turning point arrived at the beginning of the third quarter when Offaly, still bathed in the afterglow of their Joe McDonagh Cup triumph, were just six points behind and through on goal. Offaly, to their credit, simply refused to relent with 16,212 watching on and pulled back stoppage-time goals from Jack Clancy and the excellent Killian Sampson. All of which left just nine points between the teams at full-time, precisely half what the bookies had predicted.
“Obviously it was a disappointing performance from our side of things,” said Cork manager Pat Ryan. “There were some good passages of hurling and we opened them up at times but it was just very sloppy – not breaking the tackle enough, throwing balls away and we just didn’t work hard enough on what we should have done.”
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