Cork 0-11 Kerry 0-23
This was no 12-point game. Kerry were better, no question about it it. But they were made to labour for their win and needed to step on the gas down the stretch to assert their bona fides.
They outscored Cork by 0-12 to 0-1 in the closing 20 minutes, brutalising the Cork kick-out and raining down scores from everywhere when it mattered most.
And yet for long stretches, it was a quietly defiant performance from the home side. Cork’s flaws are obvious enough – they can for penetration and they rarely see a problem that turning around to play a 20-yard pass back the pitch won’t solve. But nonetheless, they were able to conjure up enoug …
- May 8, 2022
