Diarmuid Connolly is backing Galway to send Mayo packing on Sunday, despite their injury worries.
Having gone into last Sunday’s final round of games topping their respective groups, neither side expected to be facing each other in a winner-takes-all clash this weekend but Galway’s loss to Armagh and Mayo’s collapse in the final quarter against Cork has led to their being pitted against each other in a preliminary quarter-final.
Galway have serious injury doubts around key men Sean Kelly and Damien Comer, with Kelly in particular thought to be seriously up against it.