Kildare get a big chance to redeem themselves

Galway’s long tale of woe in Croke Park is hard beaten and Kildare’s difficulties there pale in comparison but still can’t be understated.

Of their last seven visits there, they have come out on the wrong side of the result six times and on that rare occasion against Wexford last year they mustered just two second-half points.

Besides that last year, there was the narrow defeat to Westmeath, the surprise Division 3 final loss to Clare. The season before, there were the embarrassments against Kerry and their seven-goal salvo in the 2015 All-Ireland quarter-final and Dublin who put five goals past them in their Leinster semi-final.