Galway must find a way to halt Kilkenny goalscoring machine
Only once in the last 15 seasons, after a last-minute Wexford goal in 2004, have Kilkenny been beaten in their own province.
An even more impressive statistic. Outside of Leinster in that same period Kilkenny have lost just six times, once each to Offaly (1998) and Tipperary (2010), twice to Cork (1999 and 2004) and in the days before they were invited to play in Leinster to Galway (2001 and 2005).