Electric Ireland Connacht MFC<\/p>\n
Roscommon 1-13 Leitrim 0-2<\/p>\n
Sligo 0-9 Mayo 0-8<\/p>\n
Electric Ireland Connacht MFC champions Roscommon knew they were locked into this year\u2019s provincial final before the game against Leitrim at King & Moffatt Dr. Hyde Park and so manager Shane Moran made 14 changes to his starting team, and still the Rossies were comfortable in recording a fourth consecutive victory.<\/p>\n
Leitrim defended well into the breeze in the early stages of the opening half, restricting Roscommon to a couple of scores from Se\u00e1n Duggan and Dylan Goode.<\/p>\n
Roscommon started to put more and more pressure on Elvis Shehaj\u2019s kickout from the Leitrim goal and a couple of two-pointers from Duggan and Cronan McLoughlin pushed the lead out to 0-10 to 0-0 at half-time, with Leitrim\u2019s best chance a palmed effort from Colm McLaughlin that was well saved by Shane Carroll.<\/p>\n
Given the strength of the breeze, retrieving a 10-point lead wasn\u2019t off the cards entirely, but Roscommon\u2019s explosive start to the second half completely crushed Leitrim\u2019s hopes.<\/p>\n
Sam Walsh teed up Conor Cryan for goal with Cillian McGowan and McLoughlin on the mark with points, and to compound Leitrim\u2019s difficulty, the wind began to lose a little but of strength.<\/p>\n
Scoring remained incredibly difficult with Hugh McGovern and Senan Kelly picking off Leitrim\u2019s only points.<\/p>\n
Mathematically, Leitrim are not entirely out of contention but they would need to beat Sligo by a landslide margin and get a favour from Galway against Mayo, so realistically it is the other three counties that are in contention for the two semi-final slots.<\/p>\n
Sligo gave themselves a huge boost with their first win of the campaign, Ryan Lang kicking the winning score with a tremendous left-footed effort from out on the sideline to clinch an 0-9 to 0-8 win.<\/p>\n
In dreadful weather at Kilcoyne Park in Tubbercurry, Sligo conceded the first score to Mayo wing-back Alexander Smyth but defended brilliantly for the remainder of the half, conceding just two more scores in the first quarter and getting to half-time just 0-6 to 0-1 behind, Conor Hoban adding to Mayo\u2019s tally in stoppage time.<\/p>\n
Sligo were back to within a point 12 minutes into the second half following Lang delivering the only two-pointer of the day, but Mayo dug their heels in and when Fiachra \u00d3 Cinnseala blasted the ball over to put them two up with a little over five minutes remaining, they looked the more likely winners.<\/p>\n
Instead Ois\u00edn Gormley and Lang levelled the game with two points in as many minutes, and the corner forward\u2019s magnificent winner means that Sligo will be sure of a semi-final berth if they beat Leitrim next week.<\/p>\n
For Mayo, assuming Sligo win, they will need to beat Galway by three points or more to edge out the Tribesmen on scoring difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electric Ireland Connacht MFC Roscommon 1-13 Leitrim 0-2 Sligo 0-9 Mayo 0-8 Electric Ireland Connacht MFC champions Roscommon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-393392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}