Meath 2-15 Mayo 1-15
Meath defeated the favorites Mayo in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-final.
The Mayo men got off to the better start, getting four points within the first 15 minutes; while it was the 17th minute before Meath registered their first score. However, the Royal County slowly got back into the match and lead by a point at half time.
David Bray scored a goal for Meath on the 19th minute.
Half-Time Score: Meath 1-5 Mayo 0-7
The Royals started the scoring in the second half. In the first 10 minutes, both teams were level on a couple of occasions. On the 51st minute, Mayo's Aidan O'Shea fists the ball into the Meath net, for Mayo to go 4 points ahead. However, Meath were awarded a penalty on the 53rd minute and Cian Ward scored a goal from it.
Mayo held the lead (by 1 point) with 7 minutes to go, but Meath got the equaliser (8th time in the match that the scores were level). Meath then added another 4 unanswered points. Mayo got 2 points at the end, but it wasn't enough.
Despite the new pitch surface at Croke Park, conditions were slippery and both sides struggled with this throughtout the match.
Meath will now meet Kerry in the All-Ireland semi-final on August 30th. The last time these two teams met, was in the 2001 All-Ireland SFC semi-final, that Meath convincingly won by 2-14 to 0-5.
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
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