Less from Joe Canning is more for Galway

In the aftermath of last year’s Leinster final defeat to Kilkenny, it would be wrong to say Micheál Donoghue’s Galway were indifferent to Ger Loughnane’s charge that they had been gutless, but fair to say they gave greater credence to the fact they had gone goalless.
A look at the video and stats of that game showed that their tackle count had been the second-highest by any side in the championship that year – Kilkenny’s on the same day just happened to be the highest. But something else they identified was how few goal chances they’d created.