Glenn Ryan’s side missed four goal chances to keep Monaghan alive and dangerous
More enjoyable than the fare on show for much of this, certainly. At times, it devolved into the worst of these types of games. Both sides facing off from arm’s length, neither gaining anything since neither was venturing anything. Kildare were more inclined to kick the ball than Monaghan, although it was a marginal call.
Instead, Monaghan relied on runners from deep to try and break down the massed Kildare defence. It worked occasionally – O’Connell continued his fine year with a couple of incisions, Stephen O’Hanlon and McCarthy were dangerous too. Vinny Corey’s side have been in enough scrapes at this stage though to know that a lot of the time, just doing Plan A better will eventually find a way. They stitched the next three scores in a row, all from Micheál Bannigan, two of them frees. It put Monaghan 1-4 to 0-5 ahead on 22 minutes and looking reasonably happy in themselves.
They could have had anything up to four goals as well. Beggan had two point-blank saves from Daniel and Neil Flynn. Kirwan rattled the crossbar, Daniel Flynn blazed the follow-up wide. Monaghan were living on a knife-edge and just about staying on the right side of it.
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