Sunday, May 5, 2019

New York vs Mayo

 New York vs Mayo: Live Gaa 2019 Online Free Tv. Mayo will return to championship action this weekend when they take on New York in the opening round of the Connacht Football Championship. The Exiles came within a hair of recording their first ever championship win last year when they faced Leitrim and James Horan will not want this game to be as close.

 New York vs Mayo Live

Here is everything you need to know ahead of Sunday's game. The game is at 2.15 pm local time which means 7.15 pm Irish time. The match is being played in Gaelic Park in the Bronx in New York.

Mayo: Robert Hennelly; Chris Barrett, Brendan Harrison, Keith Higgins; Patrick Durcan (captain) Lee Keegan, James McCormack; Matthew Ruane, Aidan O’Shea; Evan Regan, Jason Doherty, Fergal Boland; Kevin McLoughlin, Darren Coen, James Carr

Mayo are heavy favourites for the clash. The perennial contenders are priced at 1/200 while New York are priced at 25/1/. A draw is priced at 50/1. Jason Doherty says that there are distractions that come with travelling abroad for the tie.

Mayo vs New York Fans watch today's game in Gaelic Park. The forward said: “I think now, going over this year with experience and maybe age, it would be certainly a lot easier to manage your energy.

“But for younger lads in the panel over for the first time to New York for a Championship game, potentially it could be a distraction. So it’s up to us older lads to kind of manage that energy because you easily could be distracted between the city, the shopping and so on.

“We’ll be over there probably a couple of days before so it’s trying to focus on performing against New York which you’re not used to, there’s not much familiarity there.

New York v Mayo, Sunday, Gaelic Park, 7.15pm

The beginning of the championship on Saturday with Mayo crossing the Atlantic to play New York at Gaelic Park with a 7.15pm throw in Irish time. We will, of course, be providing live score updates of the game on Sunday night.

Click Livescores.sportsnewsireland.com for live updates

Mayo: Robert Hennelly; Chris Barrett, Brendan Harrison, Keith Higgins; Patrick Durcan (captain) Lee Keegan, James McCormack; Matthew Ruane, Aidan O’Shea; Evan Regan, Jason Doherty, Fergal Boland; Kevin McLoughlin, Darren Coen, James Carr.

New York: Vinny Cadde; Michael Creedon, Gerard McCarten, Robert Gorman; Paddy Boyle, Michael Naughton; Matthew Queenan, Cathal Compton; Sean Hurley, Shane Hogan, Luke Kelly; Daniel McKenna, David Freeman, Niall Madine, Peter Hatzer.

New York have been long dependent on players from Ireland to fill the starting line-up but according to New York GAA secretary, Joan Henchy speaking to RTE said that a development plan was put in place 18 months to develop homegrown American players. This has certainly worked, Henchy said that there are currently 4 players on the panel. She said, “Immigration is a big problem at the moment, so we have to start looking at our own kids and what we can do to bring them on and put New York back on the map.”

Mayo boss James Horan will be aware that the last two seasons teams like Roscommon and Leitrim have struggled. Leitrim last season only won by a point with a last gasp effort, while in 2016 Roscommon also won by a point. Mayo impressed in the league and was obviously crowned league champions beating Kerry. Mayo in defence has players like Lee Keegan, Keith Higgins, Colm Boyle and Paddy Durcan. Andy Moran, Aidan O’Shea and Kevin McLoughlin will be key in the attack.

The teams have met 4 times in the championship since 1999, Mayo winning on all occasions.

Previous Championship Meetings

1999 Mayo 3-13 New York 0-10

2004 Mayo 3-28 New York 1-08

2009 Mayo 2-19 New York 0-10

2014 Mayo 4-18 New York 0-08

Mayo is entering the championship as Allianz League (Div 1) champions for the first time since 2001. They beat Kerry in this year’s final, having earlier won five of seven divisional games.

Jason Doherty was Mayo’s top scorer in the Allianz League on 0-27 (0-20 frees). The top scorers from play were Kevin McLoughlin (2-5), Matthew Ruane (2-4), Diarmuid O’Connor and Fionn McDonagh (1-6 each).

The winners will play Roscommon or Leitrim in the Connacht semi-final on May 26.

Team News

New York: Vinny Cadden; Michael Creedon, Gerard McCarten, Robert Gorman; Paddy Boyle, Michael Naughton; Matthew Queenan, Cathal Compton; Sean Hurley, Shane Hogan, Luke Kelly; Daniel McKenna, David Freeman, Niall Madine, Peter Hatzer.

Mayo team v New York: Robert Hennelly; Chris Barrett, Brendan Harrison, Keith Higgins; Patrick Durcan (captain) Lee Keegan, James McCormack; Matthew Ruane, Aidan O’Shea; Evan Regan, Jason Doherty, Fergal Boland; Kevin McLoughlin, Darren Coen, James Carr.

injured: Diarmuid O’Connor, Keith Higgins and Seamus O’Shea