Dessie Farrell acknowledges a number of influential players are likely to step away
Galway’s John Maher celebrates after the victory over Dublin in the All-Ireland SFC quarter-final at Croke Park. Photograph: James Crombie/Inphosemi-final at Croke Park before nearly 50,000. The Connacht champions overcame an insipid first half, after which they trailed by four, 0-7 to 0-11, to make history in Croke Park.
A much improved second half was the main plank of the victory, culminating in the last 20 minutes when they outscored their opponents by 0-6 to 0-2.Con O’Callaghan worked a nice score to open up a 0-14 to 0-11 lead in the 56th minute. Ironically, he almost produced an equaliser with the last play of the match but the shot flew wide. His manager praised O’Callaghan’s willingness to try to find a way out for the champions and he didn’t have a lot of support in his efforts.
Galway looked sluggish by comparison, not bringing much energy to pressing their opponents’ busy possession-based attacks, but they stayed in touch. Their principal vehicle was Walsh, who persecuted John Small and kicked two lovely points and converted his frees. Yet the margin never exceeded five points, 0-8 to 0-3 and 0-11 to 0-6, and all the while Galway chipped away at the scoreboard.
Galway’s Cillian McDaid puts pressure on Dublin's Con O’Callaghan as he attempts a late point to level the game. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho They made the best possible start to the second half. Matthew Tierney caught the ball and set up McDaid for a point to cut the margin to three, 0-8 to 0-11. McDaid came strongly into it and would win the RTÉ man of the match award with three second-half points.
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