Forget the blame game and get Cork hurling into intensive care

This was a well-deserved win for Wexford and manager Liam Dunne. It was built on workrate and on playing to their strengths.

Down the crucial, final ten-minute stretch, Wexford scored five points, using the ball well. Cork scored two and were over-reliant on long ball or angled deliveries into the corner. In wet conditions, those ploys don’t work.

Cork needed to attack through the middle but their midfielders constantly struck long balls from far out when they needed quick link-ups with their half-forwards and direct running at the Model defenders.