Mayo 0-20 Dublin 0-08: Mayo beat Dublin off the field Sat 31 Mar 2012 in Castlebar

 

Mayo 0-20 Dublin 0-08: Mayo beat Dublin off the field Sat 31 Mar 2012 in Castlebar
 Dublin looked anything but All-Ireland champions in Castlebar tonight where Mayo schooled Pat Gilroy's side from start to finish to keep alive their hopes of a NFL Division One semi-final berth.
Mayo will need to beat Kerry in the Kingdom next week but if they play like they did tonight against a side whose place in the final four is guaranteed they will have every chance.
Dublin, in contrast, will be destroyed in Cork if Gilroy doesn't identify the cause of an anaemic performance that lacked structure, hunger and discipline.
They ended the game with 13 men, after Paul Flynn and Diarmuid Connolly were correctly dismissed in the second half for off-the-ball incidents. The departure of the latter came via a second yellow card, shortly after the forward's first point in the 48th minute. Indeed, such was the paucity of Dublin attacks, their first wide did not arrive until the 53rd minute.
In total, they accrued seven yellows and two reds as a beating turned into a hammering in the second half.
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