Jim Gavin maintains that Dublin got out of jail in the drawn All-Ireland SFC final, despite leading by three points with a minute of normal time remaining.

"There was a sense that we got lucky," he told reporters ahead of tomorrow's replay with Mayo.

"In the first half, we weren't scoring from play, we didn't score until late in the half. We got two lucky breaks for goals - yes, we created them but we didn't execute them, it was Mayo who executed them for us.

"So we got lucky on the day. We were on the ropes and we got a bit of luck. But the players will always give it their all and they did the last day. I thought they showed great character to hang in there - and they would have known that we got the breaks, but they hung in there to the end."

The Dublin manager believes Mayo will have drawn huge confidence from what happened a fortnight ago.

"They're talking about winning now, they're confident of winning so that's a dangerous team," he continued.

"They're a very experienced team, they've been around this block before, they've been in numerous finals before and I'm sure they know what it's all about."

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