Sylvester Hennessy: Mayo’s superior accuracy proves crucial

One stat that will jump off the page when the Mayo management team sit down to analyse their team’s performance this week: for once they managed to be extremely accurate from their scoring opportunities.

For years, the Mayo Achilles heel has been wayward shooting and an inability to maximise their scoring potential but on this occasion, Mayo converted 16/21 scoring chances, or 76% of their opportunities. The only caveat is that half of Mayo’s scores came from close-range frees. Galway on the other hand converted just 10 of their 19 scoring chances and Kevin Walsh will surely be disappointed with a return of just 10 scores in a Connacht final on their home soil in Pearse Stadium.

The Mayo management will still have huge concerns about the overall productivity of their forward unit however.