LAST SIX KERRY MEETINGS: How have Donegal fared in recent meetings with Kerry?

Kerry 1-13
Donegal 1-08

In what was a tempestuous affair in Austin Stack Park, Tralee, both sides finished with 14 but Kerry came out on top.

It was a feisty contest and both managers were summoned by the referee at half-time to his dressing room. One presumes Eddie Kinsella laid down the law as regards the feuding that went on in the opening half. As a result the second period cooled down somewhat, though no quarter was asked nor given by either side.

Donegal trailed by four at the break but got back level 0-7 each early in the second half but a Peter Crowley goal put Kerry clear again and they would not be caught.

KERRY: Brian Kelly, Marc O Se, Mark Griffin, Shane Enright; Peter Crowley (1-00), Aidan O’Mahony, Fionn Fitzgerald; Kieran Donaghy, Bryan Sheehan (0-08, 0-07fs, 1 '45); Denis Daly, Paul Murphy, Donnchadh Walsh (0-03); Darran O’Sullivan, Alan Fitzgerald, Stephen O’Brien. Subs: Padraig O’Connor for S Enright (b/c 24), C Cooper (0-01) for D Daly (BC 24), J Buckley for K Donaghy (59), BJ Keane (0-01) for S O’Brien (59), B O’Sullivan for P Crowley (63), A Walsh for D O’Sullivans (70).

DONEGAL: Peter Boyle; Eoin Ban Gallagher, Neil McGee, Paddy McGrath; Ryan McHugh, Anthony Thompson, Eamonn Doherty; Rory Kavanagh, Hugh McFadden; Leo McLoone, Odhran MacNiallais, Eoin McHugh ; Patrick McBrearty (0-03fs), Michael Murphy (1-04, 0-02f, 1 '45)), Martin O’Reilly. Subs: Eamonn McGee for Neil McGee (7), N Gallagher (0-01) for H McFadden (h-t), Martin McElhinney for E Doherty (h-t), C Toye for A Thompson (54), Neil McGee for E McGee (56).

REFEREE: Eddie Kinsella (Laois)