Conor McKeon

And straight away, you could see that Donegal had a different defensive setup.

They didn't sit.

They marked Kerry when they came over the halfway line.

They put pressure on the ball.

But what they did was really interesting.

And Philly can kind of tell me how...

easy or hard as it is to do but they created a plus one and it was interesting how they did it they would force the Kerry player carrying the ball out to the wing and when they did that they would create the plus one by leaving the Kerry player in the far corner free so now they're marking everybody but a player who you can't really hit with the ball

Then the times that Kerry did come down the middle, it was Gavin Mulroney, the goalkeeper, would press up on the player closest to goal.

So they still have a plus one.

So there was a couple of times where Kerry did break the tackle, where a runner went past our man, but they always had the sweeper there.

And if you compare that to how...

Kerry set up at the far end the number of times Donegal just threw the ball around and waited and Conor O'Donnell's goal was a brilliant brilliant example of this all that happened there was Michael Langham beat his man once he beat his man he was in behind they shifted it off to Conor O'Donnell they got a goal so that was huge now we were watching how Donegal did it because obviously when Kerry get the ball say on one wing and they're leaving the man free in the far corner Conor

When the ball goes around the arc, everybody has to move and sink and everybody has to see what the person around them.

So it looks like the sort of thing that has to be really, really well drilled because they're all kind of drifting.

Somebody is stepping up and somebody and then a player who was marked is now being left free.

But that was a very obvious thing that they did.

The other thing that they did was the kick out.

Do you remember last year when Michael Murphy was chasing Paul Murphy into the corner when he was chasing Jason Foley into the corner doing shuttle runs all day.

This time Donegal basically set up with their quicker men inside on the press and they also marked Zonal.

So it forced Kerry into midfield