O’Neill: Mayo won’t risk losing early goal

Mayo’s 1993 All Star Kevin O’Neill expects the team will keep things tight in the hope of avoiding a repeat of early goal concessions in their last three All-Ireland finals.

In 2004, 2006 and last year, the county conceded a total of six first half goals with four of them coming inside the first 12 minutes (two v Kerry six years ago and Donegal in 2012).

O’Neill scored two goals before the interval in the 2006 decider but knows the importance on Sunday in Mayo keeping a tight rein on Dublin when in the danger zone.