Former Clare All Star Jamesie O'Connor says Wexford are the only team that aren't under pressure to get a win today at Semple Stadium.

This afternoon's double header at the Thurles venue sees the Model men go into battle with Waterford, which will be followed by the meeting of Clare and Galway, and the former All-Ireland winner believes all the pressure will be on the latter three to deliver.

"There's pressure on a different scale in Thurles today, where Clare, Galway and Waterford have to shoulder the burden of their own and their supporters' expectations to keep their seasons alive," O'Connor wrote in his Sunday Independent column.

"In stark contrast, Wexford are in bonus territory. They, of the four teams today, are the only ones that can lose and not feel an overwhelming sense of underachievement. No-one coming out of Croke Park at the end of May would have given tuppence for their chances of being in the last six, given how poorly they played against Dublin in the Leinster quarter-final. I don't think any of the Wexford players themselves believed it to be a remote possibility.

"But something has clicked, and while the quality of the opposition they have beaten can be questioned, Wexford have had the answers when the questions have been asked."

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