GAA Hurling: Waterford vs Dublin Live Sunday 26 July 2015

GAA Hurling All Ireland Senior Championship 2015 Quarter Final

Sunday July 26th, 2015

The opening All Ireland SHC quarter final sees Derek McGrath’s Waterford facing Ger Cunningham’s Dublin for the right to challenge Kilkenny in this year’s All Ireland semi-final.

Waterford’s unbeaten run in 2015 was brought to a halt against Tipperary in the Munster Final, while Dublin recovered from a convincing defeat by Galway in the Leinster Championship, to achieve wins against Laois and Limerick in the qualifiers, to set up Sunday’s tie with the Munster finalists.

Derek McGrath will have had much to ponder since that Munster final defeat to Tipp. During the game Waterford achieved their goal of negating the Premier County’s main scoring threats, but in doing so limited their own attacking threat from manifesting to a sufficient level to claim victory.

Against Tipperary, fear of the Munster champion’s threat inside was seen as the main reason why Waterford maybe set up so defensively and rigidly. Before the Munster final the Deise, despite playing to a well-structured, defensive system were still running up decent totals, and will be expected to do so again, against the Dubs on Sunday.

Dublin do not pose the same threat as Tipperary inside, which should free up the Waterford support runners to move forward and aid their attackers such as Maurice Shanahan, much like they were doing before the Munster final.

Ger Cunningham returned to the drawing board following the defeat by Galway, re-positioning Liam Rushe at centre back, and drafting Paul Ryan back into the starting fifteen. Against Limerick, Ryan was colossal scoring 0-12 points, including 0-6 from play, while Rushe was back to his best at the centre of Dublin’s half back line.

Dublin shouldn’t lack for confidence going into Sunday’s clash, after coming back from eight points down at one point in the first half against Limerick, to emerge victorious by the slimmest of margins.

Cunningham’s men dominated the majority of the second half of that game in Thurles to earn the right to face Waterford, but you would expect the 2013 Leinster champions will have to go up another couple of performance levels to have any chance on Sunday.

Waterford have tended to start their games slowly so far this year, so Dublin will surely look to get a start on their Munster rivals, but if they don’t the 2015 League champions will fancy their chances of dealing with the Dublin threat, and setting up a semi-final clash with local rivals Kilkenny.

How Waterford react to finally succumbing to defeat this year will be interesting, but if they continue to believe in the system of play that brought them to a Munster decider and a League title earlier in the year, and make a few small tweaks to the offensive side of their game, Derek McGrath’s men should have too much for Dublin on Sunday.

Team News
Waterford team: Stephen O’Keeffe; Shane Fives, Barry Coughlan, Noel Connors; Tadhg de Búrca, Austin Gleeson, Philip Mahony; Jamie Barron, Darragh Fives; Kevin Moran, Shane Bennett, Jake Dillon; Maurice Shanahan, Michael Walsh, Colin Dunford.

Dublin team: Gary Maguire; Shane Barrett, Cian O’Callaghan, Paul Schutte; Chris Crummey, Liam Rushe, Joey Boland; Johnny McCaffrey, Niall McMorrow; Paul Ryan, Ryan O’Dwyer, Danny Sutcliffe; David O’Callaghan, Conal Keaney, Mark Schutte.


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