Mulholland: We paid for silly errors

Alan Mulholland always knew Galway had to play at their best to beat Mayo – but when they pressed the self-destruct button in defence any hope of challenging them evaporated.

“In the first half, the goals, I think a lot of them were down to us coughing up the ball. The Mayo dressing room will say that was down to the pressure they put on our defenders, and they definitely did, and maybe it was a level of pressure they weren’t accustomed to.

“We did make some mistakes. We were always going to have to be squeaky clean in this match and play to our best and that’s not what happened.