MAYO ARE CELEBRATING after tonight’s All-Ireland quarter-final win over Donegal but victory came at a price with a few injury headaches.
Defender Tom Cunniffe and goalkeeper David Clarke are the main worries as they came off with injuries, and while Barry Moran was also an enforced withdrawal, the news is more positive about his fitness.
Cunniffe was forced off just before the break with Chris Barrett coming on to replace him while Clarke didn’t emerge for the second-half action with Rob Hennelly in goal for the second-half.
In the closing stages Barry Moran was also taken off with Andy Moran coming in as his replacement.
“Davy Clarke picked up an injury when he was saving the goal shot in the first-half and he has an adductor injury we’re told,” revealed Mayo joint manager Noel Connelly after the game.
“We don’t know how serious it is yet but that was the reason for the change at half-time. Tom tweaked his hamstring going for a ball to his feet.
“He stumbled out over and just pinched his hamstring. Again I don’t know how serious that is, we’ll have to look at that over the next few days and see how it is.
“Barry again, he hurt his knee, he came off as a blood sub and was prepared to come back on but at that stage there was really no point. We hope that he’ll be fine.”
Unless there is a successful appeal, Mayo will have to plan without the suspended Kevin Keane for the All-Ireland semi-final against Dublin after he was shown a red card.
“(It was) very disappointing,” admitted Connelly. “I’ll have to see it again. Kevin says, I suppose Michael Murphy had him by the neck and jersey. It’s a natural reaction to push off.
Whether the fist was closed or the hand, I don’t know what it was. Being very truthful I haven’t seen it.
“But he’s very disappointed, we’ll have to look at it and see whether or not it was a correct decision.
“Whether we’ll appeal it, we don’t know, we’ll have to have a look at it.”
Good jayus!!!
United are crying out for a right sided attacking midfielder. Bring a bit of balance. He’s on the payroll. Playing well. Makes sense.
I miss him purely because utd don’t have enough natural hate figures playing for them
Hopefully we see granny back at womanchester divided
Im calling you out the fake les
So everything with man in the name becomes woman….. We are in the presence of a genius. Usually trolls are just out there spitting bike whereas you are here tearing up the comment section!
Stfu your names spoddgy like
Good grief its the first sign of the apocalypse!
I wouldn’t if I was Nani-United only have a chance of winning the fa cup whilst Lisbon have the Portuguese league Portuguese cup and the champions/Europa league!!
You think that Sporting have a chance of the Champions league?
They have a Sporting chance.
Yes.
Foxyfonz you just win at life…!
Please tell me this is an elaborate joke? Nani is terrible.
Christ … LvG has lost it!
Rather him than Ashley young at the moment….
Never got why Nani didnt play as much as he did for club or country. Seemed to always play well when on dont see Valencia being miles ahead of him
He plays the whole time for Portugal.
You obviously didn’t watch too many games. Never consistent enough
LVG has brought the best out of young and fellaini in recent times, maybe he can do it with nani too. It was never a question of nanis ability, just his consistency. 5 or 6 good performances a season just wasn’t enough.