Karl Lacey, Ryan Bradley and Christy Toye have recovered from injury in time for Donegal's first Ulster SFC defence against Cavan next Sunday.

All three have returned to full training ahead of the Kingspan Breffni Park preliminary round tie. However, defender Eamon McGee and midfielder Neil Gallagher are both struggling to be fit due to hamstring and ankle injuries, while team captain Michael Murphy is ruled out after undergoing knee surgery last month.

Meanwhile, Donegal manager Jim McGuinness - whose ultra-defensive tactics were derided last year - is demanding more scores from his team this year.

He told The Irish News: "Basically, we want to score more. We have done that throughout the league in certain games and we have clocked up eight or nine points in halves of games in the league.

"I suppose it's trying to marry the two now. It's trying to retain a lot of things we done last year in relation to keeping the scoreline down and now trying to push on and keeping the scoreboard ticking over." Tweet

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