Wexford win shoot-out with Kilkenny but Davy Fitzgerald warns of tougher tests

Walsh Cup final: Wexford 1-24 Kilkenny 1-24 (After extra-time: Wexford win 3-2 after free-taking competition): There was silverware to show for their efforts, but Wexford manager Davy Fitzgerald sounded a note of caution after Saturday’s dramatic Walsh Cup final win over Kilkenny.

“If we play that way against Waterford, they’ll annihilate us,” Fitzgerald said, warning Wexford against a repeat of their up-and-down performance against their Nowlan Park hosts. “We can’t afford to have a 15 or 20-minute bad spell which we had out there. We weren’t intense enough in the first half, but we were definitely way more intense in the second.”

That intensity helped Wexford rally from eight points down in the first half and six in the second to get the better of a dogged Kilkenny.