Limerick are back in the Munster final after defeating Waterford 0-30 to 2-14 yesterday.
A return to familiar form. After they were overturned in Cork, in quite sensational fashion a fortnight ago, Limerick arrived at the last day of the Munster round-robin aware that the stakes were high. Just like twelve months ago they could not afford nother stumble, and again they rose to the challenge.
‘What I do know is that our performance levels are higher than what they were last year and the year before, when you look at the data that’s there,” said John Kiely afterwards.“There was a lot said about us knocked out of the Munster championship – we’re still here. We want to drive on.”Their last outing at the Gaelic Grounds was marred by injury late on to a Limerick star forward, this time the withdrawal happened earlier.
But their inability to keep the scoreboard ticking over with points proved their downfall. They only raised 14 white flags, only the fourth time out of twenty tallies in this year’s Munster round-robin that a team failed to break the 20-point barrier. Waterford’s own point tallies have been consistently good – 25 against Cork, 21 against Tipperary, 26 against Clare – but the slump here was striking.
John Kiely admitted afterwards their inefficiency was a problem, but he always backs his players to get it right and encourages them to keep shooting. That principle of Limerick’s play shone through by the end, again they reached the 30 point mark, when Adam English struck his injury-time shot.. Limerick have multiple scoring threats. They had 13 different players supplying points, with 0-5 contributed by substitutes.
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