All-Ireland SFC Group 1: Galway 0-15 Armagh 1-12 Here we go again. Armagh and Galway thundering down the tracks in a season-defining contest. A dramatic flick of the railroad switch sent the Connacht champions into a preliminary quarter-final while Armagh progress after topping the group.
When Galway rest at their final destination for 2024, they will look back and once again see their own fingerprints all over the lever. In the 2022 quarter-final, they looked comfortable until the late concession of avoidable goals. In the 2023 group tie, they failed to take crucial chances including a penalty and a late free.
Here was a combination of both. They were five points up midway through the second half only to concede 1-3 in the space of five minutes. It started with a Conor Gleeson wayward short kickout that the terrific Conor Turbitt picked off.
He carried and teed up Tiernan Kelly for a simple finish. The same player was handed a suspension for the infamous eye-gouging incident in this fixture two years ago. He inflicted more punishment shortly after the green flag by intercepting another Gleeson restart and returning the favour to Turbitt for a tap-over point.
For Galway, it was a wreck completely of their own making. They led 0-8 to 0-6 at half-time thanks to an exceptionally well-executed gameplan. Against the breeze, they were controlled and clinical, with only three missed shots.
Two of them were at the start as Gleeson missed a pair of long-range frees. Dylan McHugh was a.
