Midfield, half-backs - and Gooch - are Kingdom’s keys

1 Kerry’s midfield and half-back dominance

FOR Mayo to have come out of yesterday with a victory or at least a chance of fighting for one in the last quarter, they needed parity or better from kick-outs.

Indeed they probably needed to be more in the 70:30 category in the possession stakes. Instead they were cleaned out in the middle of the park and Kerry bossed the breaking ball.