Waterford U21 star Stephen Bennett feels both teams are evenly matched going into today's All-Ireland U21HC final at Thurles.

The Deise men go in against Galway as 1/8 favourites off the back of some riveting form in the competition, along with having a pack of senior starlets, but Bennett feel his side are almost at a disadvantage for the game.

"With the few senior names people will say 'oh sure ye'll walk that' but if you look at Galway, they're every bit as good," he told the Irish Independent.

"We're nearly at a disadvantage because we have 11-12 playing senior and we haven't gotten together. We trained the Monday before the Clare game and that was the first full training we had together.

"There's 18 players who've been training together the rest of the time on their own."

He added: "We have the minor, hopefully this weekend we'll get the U-21 and maybe the senior some day."

Throw-in today at Semple Stadium is at 5pm.

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