Midfield battle key to winning replay

NEXT Saturday’s replay between Sligo and Roscommon will be decided in the old-fashioned Gaelic football way — with the more dominant midfield emerging from the battle.

The tussle between Eamon O’Hara and Seamus O’Neill enlivened proceedings in the Hyde on Sunday, and Dessie Sloyan reckons it will do so again in Markievicz.

“It will be the key area,” Sloyan agrees. “It was key to the drawn game. Roscommon dominated us in every sector of the field in the first-half and that came from O’Neill. It wasn’t until Eamon moved in there that we settled a bit and played our own game.”