Dubs reap reward for sticking to game-plan

An assured Dublin side turned on the afterburners at just the right time to see off a difficult Roscommon challenge and win the county’s second U-21 All-Ireland crown in three years.

The seven-point margin hardly reflected what was a tense affair up until the last six minutes when Dublin took charge in front of a Roscommon-dominated 10,490 crowd at O’Connor Park, Tullamore

Winning manager Jim Gavin said he never doubted his team even when they saw their two-point half-time lead evaporate and transform into a two-point deficit eight minutes into the second-half.