Jack Sheedy accepts that Waterford could have punished Longford for their second-half slip in Pearse Park on Sunday.

Na Deise's fightback came up short as the midlanders took their foot off the gas in the second half and Sheedy admits his team were fortunate to emerge with a two-point victory:

"We could have been punished more. Thankfully we weren't," the former Dublin midfielder says in The Longford Leader. "That's the nature of it. We are going out to win games and sometimes you have to win ugly. And that was certainly the case against Waterford.

"For 25 minutes we performed extremely well and that's the standard we are capable of. We will just have to refocus again for next weekend against Wicklow.

"We have a lot to go and work on in the build up to the next game and we are very capable of putting in a good performance. In the second half against Waterford, there was poor distribution, poor execution and poor decision-making.

"Poor football on our part in the second half enabled them to get back into the game. The reality is that level of performance won't sustain us for the rest of the league; we have got to improve."

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