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Full-time, Galway 2-21 Kilkenny 2-11:
16.09 – 10 minutes: Galway 1-2 Kilkenny 0-0: Entire Galway half-back line have started really well, a ball hasn’t got by them yet. They are playing tough and fast and feeding it into the forwards long and accurate. Can they keep it up? Now Canning is back there turning over ball. He’s all over the pitch and Galway are getting seriously physical.
16.37 – Half-time, Galway 2-12 Kilkenny 0-4: Another Shefflin free as Kilkenny tip toe their way into this from a long way back. Not surprised Galway’s intensity has dropped in the last three or four minutes, robots couldn’t keep up what they did for half an hour of that. But now they have time to draw breath. Expect a backlash but if Galway play to anywhere near that level in the second half they won’t be caught. How in the name of Brian Cody did that happen? Cracking stuff. We’re off to catch our breaths and be back after the break.
16.59 – 45 minutes, Galway 2-13 Kilkenny 1-6: Here they come? Aidan Fogarty gets the ball 30 out and pitches it over. Kilkenny have brought the hunger they forgot in the first half to this half. Long way back though, but a lot of time still on the clock too. And now a goal. Richie Hogan.
17.12 – 57 minutes, Galway 2-19 Kilkenny 2-9: The diagonal ball into the forwards still working for Galway as it buys Joe Canning space and he doesn’t miss. He is tormenting Paul Murphy and now  wins a free off him. James Regan comes on for Iarla Tannion as Canning puts over the simple free. Another gutsy response from the Connacht side. Matthew Ruth on for TJ Reid for Kilkenny.
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