Donegal manager Rory Gallagher said his Donegal side came into this evening’s qualifier with Longford ‘very wounded and very hurt’.
Donegal had five points to spare, but that only tells a part of the tale.
Donegal kicked 17 wides and dropped another handful of attempts into Paddy Collum’s hands before finally getting their rhythm when it counted.
Picture caption: Rory Gallagher during Saturday’s qualifier. Picture by Evan Logan
“We were coming very wounded and very hurt,” Gallagher said, in reference to their nine-point loss to Tyrone two weeks ago.
We were disappointed in ourselves as a group. We had to keep the chin up and it wasn’t easy.
“If you gave me a five-point victory, would I have taken it? 100 per cent. We’d like to have played better.
“Some of the edginess comes when we miss a lot of relatively straightforward chances. We weren’t playing that well, but we had enough chances to have eight or nine points on the board in the first half.
“There is a hangover. No matter what way you dress it up, it wasn’t easy to get over it.”
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