Classy Cillian confident Mayo will step up again

If there was one blot in Cillian O’Connor’s copybook last Sunday it was his missed goal chance in the first half. In a period where Kerry dominated, it may have arrested all the good work Mayo’s opponents had been doing.

Instead, Brian Kelly stood O’Connor up long enough to stymie him and his off-balance shot trickled wide.

“I just went around him and he made contact with me,” recalled O’Connor. “He didn’t make contact with the ball and he kind of knocked me off balance and I lost my footing then. But look it is not for me to be saying whether it was a free or a penalty. Those things happen, those are the decisions that happen in games and I think we reacted well to everything that happened.”