Deise lost two players to a red card but provided a spirited ending and almost won the game
Seven minutes later Stephen Bennett followed on a straight red after a fracas on the sideline but Waterford dug in and despite the now two-man advantage, the visitors couldn’t make the ball stick in their attack and build a winning score.
When Jamie Barron swished a point in the 12th minute to give the home side a 1-5 to nil lead, the question was generally how bad it might get for Dublin. They looked disorientated by the busy movement of Waterford and their despairing attempts at containment spilled into fouls, allowing Stephen Bennett to score 1-2 in the first six minutes.
Alex Considine was proving a handful in the corner and set up Joe Flanagan for the second point but it all looked very labour-intensive for the impact on the scoreboard, especially as Bennett continued to punish all misdemeanours at the other end.
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