All-Ireland SFC Round Three<\/p>\n
Monaghan 1-28 Westmeath 2-18<\/p>\n
By Colm Shalvey at St Tiernach’s Park<\/p>\n
Monaghan booked their place in the All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals with a high-scoring win over Westmeath in front of almost 22,000 in Clones.<\/p>\n
Matthew Whittaker and Brandon Kelly starred in the first half for Westmeath, but Monaghan outscored the Leinster champions by 1-13 to 0-9 after the restart to complete the quarter-final line-up. In a game where both sides ended up with 10 scorers, Monaghan dominated possession in the second half to clinch back-to-back victories over provincial winners.<\/p>\n
John Heslin opened the scoring for Westmeath, but two-pointers by Rory Beggan and M\u00edche\u00e1l McCarville moved Monaghan ahead. The first half ebbed and flowed, with Monaghan threatening to pull away at times with another pair of two-point frees by Beggan, only for Westmeath to continually peg them back with goals from Matthew Whittaker and Brandon Kelly.<\/p>\n
Andrew Woods and Jack McCarron responded for Monaghan, but Whittaker and Kelly took their tallies to 2-5 combined by the end of the opening half.<\/p>\n
The teams went in level 0-15 to 2-9, before a free-flowing start to the second half saw the teams kick five points in as many minutes, with three of those kicked by the hosts, including two from Dessie Ward.<\/p>\n
Monaghan eventually put some daylight between the teams midway through the half when Stephen O\u2019Hanlon scythed through to set up McCarron to hit the net from close range.<\/p>\n
As Monaghan began to take a grip on the midfield battle, they stretched their lead with scores from O\u2019Hanlon, Conor McCarthy and Stephen Mooney.<\/p>\n
Ray Connellan came off the bench for Westmeath to kick a two-pointer, while Ronan Wallace landed some fine scores from either side of the arc, but McCarron finished with 1-5 from play as Monaghan advanced to the last eight of the All-Ireland for the eighth time since 2013.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Monaghan: Jack McCarron 1-5; Rory Beggan 0-6 (3 2-pt-f); Stephen O\u2019Hanlon 0-3; Stephen Mooney 0-3; M\u00edche\u00e1l Bannigan 0-3f; M\u00edche\u00e1l McCarville 0-2 (1 2-pt); Andrew Woods 0-2 (1 2-pt); Dessie Ward 0-2; Conor McCarthy 0-1; David Garland 0-1.<\/p>\n
Scorers for Westmeath**:** Brandon Kelly 1-3; Matthew Whittaker 1-2; Ronan Wallace 0-4 (1 2-pt-f, 1 \u201945); Ray Connellan 0-2 (1 2-pt); John Heslin 0-2; Robbie Forde 0-2; Tadhg Baker 0-1; Kevin O\u2019Sullivan 0-1; Shane Corcoran 0-1; Sam McCartan 0-1.<\/p>\n
Monaghan: Rory Beggan; Dylan Byrne, Ryan Wylie, Ryan O\u2019Toole; Dessie Ward, Killian Lavelle, Conor McCarthy; M\u00edche\u00e1l McCarville, Karl Gallagher; Stephen O\u2019Hanlon, M\u00edche\u00e1l Bannigan, Aaron Carey; Andrew Woods, Jack McCarron, Stephen Mooney.<\/p>\n
Subs: Ois\u00edn McGorman for Gallagher (22); David Garland for Woods (51); Ryan McAnespie for Carey, Kian Mulligan for Beggan (both 66); Robbie Hanratty for Lavelle (67).<\/p>\n
Westmeath: James Mitchell; Adam Treanor, Conor Dillon, Charlie Drumm; Ronan Wallace, Shane Allen, Sam McCartan; Br\u00edan Cooney, Shane Ormsby; Matthew Whittaker, Tadhg Baker, Kevin O\u2019Sullivan; John Heslin, Senan Baker, Brandon Kelly.<\/p>\n
Subs: Robbie Forde for Cooney (24); Shane Corcoran for S Baker (46); Ray Connellan for Heslin (53); Jack Duncan for O\u2019Sullivan (54); Danny Scahill for Treanor (59).<\/p>\n
Referee: Noel Mooney (Cavan).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SFC Round Three Monaghan 1-28 Westmeath 2-18 By Colm Shalvey at St Tiernach’s Park Monaghan booked their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-511523","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\/511523","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=511523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}