The Kerry manager says it wasn't one for the pursits but maintains kicking in more ball against Derry's defence wouldn't have worked.
Jack O’Connor says anyone claiming Kerry should have played more 'gung-ho football' in this afternoon’s All-Ireland final quarter-final victory over Derry at Croke Park is not living in the real world.
Derry had real opportunities to win that one, but in today’s rematch Kerry held them comfortably at arm’s length from the hour mark onwards, where they led 0-10 to 0-7. Jack O’Connor felt Kerry stood off Derry too much in the first half and outlined how they made a pact at half-time to go at Mickey Harte’s side more aggressively.
“The last thing you need to be doing is kicking away loose ball to a team like that who can seriously hurt you on the counterattack because of their pace. “It wasn’t as if it was one-on-one. So like, you can kick in the odd one of those balls, 100 percent. But most of the time, if there’s two v one, the two are going to come out with it.
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