Dubs were sick of moral victories, says Kenny
June 16, 2019
Dublin manager Mattie Kenny celebrates. ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne.
Mattie Kenny feels the Dublin hurlers got "a monkey off their back" by beating Galway last night and progressing to the All-Ireland series.
The Dubs will face one of the Joe McDonagh Cup finalists in a preliminary All-Ireland SHC quarter-final next month after knocking the 2017 Liam MacCarthy Cup winners out of the championship.
"There was a massive game of hurling there tonight, and if we ended up with a draw or Galway winning by a point, and lads are saying, 'ah it was a great game of hurling.' These Dublin players would say they're tired of them moral victories," Kenny told RTE.
Kenny conceded that he was surprised to see his native Galway exit the championship in the middle of June.
"Looking at the permutations myself in the last week, I thought we had a good chance of getting a result here tonight. I never envisaged Galway being out of the championship.
"I'm not here to beat Galway. I'm six years now working in Dublin. My job here is to get the best out of these guys, that was my only focus. That's what we did," he added.
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