Ronan McNabb: We must keep Kerry attack goal-less

Mickey Harte may rail against what he believes to be lazy assumptions about his team and how it plays, but the fact remains that, of the four sides still in the race for Sam, Tyrone boast the stingiest defence and the least potent attack on the basis of the summer’s stats.

The Ulster representatives have conceded an average of less than a dozen points per game so far in the championship with the 1-12 Donegal managed against them in Ballybofey back in May still standing as the greatest leakage suffered yet.

It’s an impressive stat and all the more so given they haven’t conceded a goal since Martin McElhinney found the net on the stroke of half-time in that Ulster preliminary round encounter.