All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Round 1<\/p>\n
Armagh 1-18 Derry 1-13<\/p>\n
By Steve Malone<\/p>\n
Armagh are one game away from an All-Ireland quarter-final after a confident five-point win over disappointing Derry.<\/p>\n
The Oak Leafers squandered too many chances, 17 in all, in front of the posts, whereas Armagh having run riot in the opening 17, were content to manage the game out.<\/p>\n
Armagh led by six points at the break and while Derry cut that lead to three, during which time the Orchard were down to 14 men, following Jason Duffy\u2019s black card, they failed to really get into a position to wrestle control of the contest or snatch victory.<\/p>\n
Kieran McGeeney\u2019s men came flying out of the traps, perhaps the shackles were off after that big Ulster win, but certainly there was no signs of a hangover.<\/p>\n
Conor Turbitt\u2019s two-pointer, a brace from the lively Tomas McCormack and another from Jason Duffy put Armagh 0-05 to 0-01 ahead with a frenetic and exciting 11 minutes played. Darragh McMullan stretched Armagh\u2019s lead and they looked in a good place when all of a sudden Derry we back in the contest.<\/p>\n
Lachlan Murray pounced on Blaine Hughes short-kick-out and made no mistake from close-range. Niall Toner tagged on a score to make it a one-point game but a minute later Tiernan Kelly had the perfect answer. He was fouled but given advantage and let fly with a stunning shot that flew into Shea McCluskey\u2019s top corner.<\/p>\n
Both sides racked up their wides tally but Oisin Conaty\u2019s two-pointer was a kick of beauty and Jarly \u00d3g Burns wrapped up Armagh\u2019s scoring for the half on 21 minutes.<\/p>\n
Scoring dried up somewhat as Armagh led by six at the break and, while Derry did cut Armagh\u2019s led, they failed to mount a serious challenge.<\/p>\n
Murray, Shane McGuigan and Conor and Ethan Doherty landed scores for Derry but they missed more than they scored, while Armagh\u2019s Joe McElroy, Oisin Conaty, Duffy, Hughes (two-pointer) and substitute Oisin O\u2019Neill tapped over with Derry not offering a serious threat.<\/p>\n
It was a strange game in the sense that the pace opened at full-tilt but it eased off after 20-minutes. Derry have one more game to keep their season alive while Armagh will have two more bites at least.<\/p>\n
SCORERS for Armagh: C Turbitt 0-4 (2p); O Conaty 0-3 (2p); T Kelly 1-0; T McCormack, J Duffy, B Hughes (2pf) 0-2 each; D McMullen, J Og Burns, A Murnin, J McElroy, O O\u2019Neill (f) 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Derry: L Murray 1-2; C Doherty 0-3; P Cassidy (2p), E Doherty (2p) 0-2 each; C Glass, N Loughlin, S McGuigan, S Young 0-1 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Round 1 Armagh 1-18 Derry 1-13 By Steve Malone Armagh are one game away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-475534","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\/475534","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=475534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}