Mayo are coming from a different position. Frustrated not to get the win over Dublin, they are nonetheless on a run of just one defeat in the past seven matches
Brian Fenton and Donnacha McHugh playing in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Round 3 in Dr Hyde Park. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
Roscommon had a productive last match in the group, registering a first championship win in a year. Diarmuid Murtagh helped himself to 1-4 from play, Enda Smith scored 1-1 and had an assist for Brian Stack’s goal and Daire Cregg shot 0-4. It adds up to impressive scoring but a spirited– It’s now knock-out for everybody but this has the “last chance saloon” feel about it for Derry after a summer of dismal underachievement.
– You would have got long odds, on Ger Brennan improving Louth after the abrupt departure of Mickey Harte but that’s what happened. Improved showings against Dublin and Kerry have culminated in qualification for the knock-out stages of the championship and a “home” match in their temporary abode of Inniskeen across the border in Monaghan.
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