Mayo secured their first win of the NFL Division 1 season with a narrow victory over Tyrone. The game was a tight affair with both teams struggling to find their scoring boots in the first half. However, Mayo rallied in the final minutes, capitalizing on a late Tyrone sending-off to secure a hard-fought win.
In fairness to both counties, this is probably what happens when teams start to feel pressure about their long-term prospects.furiously unloading blanks before the home side joyously found their chambers loaded in the dying minutes to record a first win of the season.two weeks earlier, this was an important result for Mayo , bringing their first points of the league. Manager Kevin McStay was relieved but upbeat at the strong finale.
Statistics tell the tale. After an opening point in the third minute by the impressive Frank Irwin, who would end up top-scoring from play with 0-3, there followed 14 scoreless minutes. Mayo lost Conor Reid to a black card in the 26th minute for a body collide with Darren McCurry, seeing him finish the half in the sin bin. In his absence, Tyrone found their scoring boots after much wayward shooting and Michael McKernan, Mark Bradley and Eoin McElholm pushed the visitors in to a 0-5 to 0-4 half-time lead.
The scoring rate wasn’t much improved otherwise but when Morgan, on one of his regular excursions, sidestepped into space and kicked a point to put his team 0-9 to 0-7 ahead, Mayo were creaking. McStay said afterwards that he had been impressed by how McHale and Boland had persevered when things weren’t going their way.
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