Davy Fitzgerald is looking forward to next Sunday's Allianz Hurling League final replay after extra-time failed to separate Clare and Waterford this afternoon.

The teams will lock horns again at Semple Stadium ahead of their Munster SHC semi-final joust on June 5.

"I can't wait, I really can't wait for the next day. We had a great battle out there between two great teams. That's what hurling is about," the Clare manager told RTE.

"You want a man's game, you want it toe-to-toe and that's what it was today. We had to stand up at the end of normal time and Conor McGrath had to put over a free that was absolutely incredible. I'm so proud of him for what he did. Everything was on the line and he did it.

"Fair play to Maurice Shanahan at the end. He did it when he had to do it."

Fitzgerald also defended the quality of fare, saying: "As a hurling game, it was a savage game. That's the way I saw it, maybe you saw it differently.

"Both teams gave it everything. It was pretty nerve-racking stuff. If you don't like that ebb and flow, well I don't know what to say."

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