Neil McGee was confident Donegal would beat Dublin if they could push men forward to support their attack.

The Ulster champions came within two points of the Dubs in their 2011 All-Ireland semi-final meeting and - despite lifting Sam Maguire the following year - were still rated 7/1 outsiders for Sunday's rematch at Croke Park.

"It was an All-Ireland semi-final, Ulster champions and Leinster champions - they were kind of big odds," McGee notes in The Irish Times.

"But in fairness the way the Dubs were going it was understandable the way the odds were. The bookies had probably been cleaned out with them all year. We didn't look at that. We concentrated on our own game. We went down by five points in the first half and just kept at it, just kept plugging away.

"We watched a lot of videos of Dublin these last few weeks. We went away to a training camp for four, five days and Jim more or less broke down their game plan and we exploited it. We knew we would get the openings and it was a matter of pushing the bodies forward and supporting.

"The last time we played Dublin, we didn't get the bodies forward but we knew if we pushed six or seven bodies forward we would get the openings with the runners and it worked well."

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