Anthony Daly: Galway eye revenge but Clare have grown with every game

This Galway U20 team has an edge, but they’re meeting a very good Clare team that has steadily improved as the championship has progressed

Clare's Munster U20 hurling final victory over Tipperary was a game for the ages. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

On the evening that Clare played Waterford in the opening round of the Munster U20 championship in Sixmilebridge in late March, the easy assumption to make afterwards was that a highly fancied Clare group had gone backwards - and were going nowhere in this championship.

Ok, it was Clare’s first game, they still won the match, but there were still two popular ways of summing it up – either Waterford threw it away, or Clare committed daylight robbery. Take your pick. Clare only scored 1-10, with a late goal from Fred Hegarty bailing Terrence Fahy’s side out of a perilous position.