🏐 Down v Galway – Preview, Groups & TV Data
All-Eire Senior Soccer Championship Preliminary Quarter-Remaining
📍 Páirc Esler, Newry
🕝 Throw-in: 1.45pm, Sunday 22 June
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Galway head north as robust favourites, however Páirc Esler isn’t any straightforward place to return. Down will relish residence benefit and the chance to check themselves towards a aspect that got here inside touching distance of All-Eire glory simply 12 months in the past.
Whereas Galway convey big-game pedigree and match-winners like Shane Walsh—who kicked 0-9 towards Armagh—and the returning Paul Conroy, Down proceed to make strides underneath Conor Laverty. The Mourne males impressed within the group stage with convincing wins over Clare and Louth, and regardless of dropping narrowly to Monaghan, they confirmed grit and attacking aptitude.
Laverty’s workforce will once more depend on the sharp capturing of Pat Havern, who landed 12 factors final weekend, and the driving runs of Ryan McEvoy and Odhran Murdock. Their youthful, energetic model will probably be examined by Galway’s extra structured and composed play.
The Tribesmen make two adjustments: Cian Hernon begins in defence whereas Paul Conroy returns to midfield. Damien Comer is called on the bench and will have a key position to play if known as upon.
Prediction: Galway by 4
✅ Groups
DOWN:
Ronan Burns; Patrick McCarthy, Peter Fegan, Ceilum Doherty; Ryan Magill, Pierce Laverty, Miceal Rooney; Daniel Guinness, Ryan McEvoy; Danny Magill, Odhran Murdock, Eugene Branagan; James Guinness, Pat Havern, John McGeough.
Subs: John O’Hare, Ruairi McCormack, Aaron McClements, Donal Scullion, Eoin McCrickard, Adam Crimmins, Oisin Savage, Caolan Mooney, Finn Murdock, Patrick Brooks, Conor McCrickard.
GALWAY:
Conor Flaherty; Johnny McGrath, Sean Fitzgerald, Liam Silke; Dylan McHugh, Sean Kelly, Cian Hernon; Paul Conroy, John Maher; Cein Darcy, Matthew Tierney, Cillian McDaid; Rob Finnerty, Shane Walsh, Matthew Thompson.
Subs: Connor Gleeson, Jack Glynn, Cathal Sweeney, Sean O Maoilchiarain, Daniel O’Flaherty, John Daly, Peter Cooke, Kieran Molloy, Tomo Culhane, Johnny Heaney, Damien Comer.
