Kilkenny v Wexford

It's all to play for as Kikenny, Wexford and Dublin hope to avoid dropping out of the Championship - while Laois host Westmeath in a relegation battle at ...

Here's the Wexford team, proudly supported by— Wexford GAA (@OfficialWexGAA) @Zurich_Irl, for Saturday's crunch tie v Killkenny. Tickets through https://t.co/a0tlNVGl9fand the usual SuperValu and Centra stores. Dublin are out of the Championship. Westmeath stay in the All-Ireland for next year and Laois head to the Joe McDonagh Cup. Laois would be relegated. Kilkenny 1-14 Wexford 1-14 Kilkenny 1-16 Wexford 1-16 Kilkenny 1-18 Wexford 1-22, Galway 0-27 Dublin 0-21, Laois 1-18 Westmeath 5-24

Leinster Hurling - Kilkenny v Wexford - Preview, Stats and ...

Kilkenny and Wexford have met 15 times in the championship since Brian Cody took over as Cats’ boss in late 1998. They meet for a second successive year, with Kilkenny having won an epic Leinster semi-final by eight points after extra-time last year. A Kilkenny win would take them into the Leinster final.

Kilkenny heads were dropping, Wexicans everywhere were going mental and, if you stopped to look around the ground just then - on the stroke of injury-time, ...

A goal really have killed Wexford at that stage but again, with their lives on the line, Wexford summoned the spirit they've spent a season looking for. In fact, their only answer was Richie Reid lorrying high and hopeless balls that Matthew O'Hanlon, at this stage of his inter-county career, must have believed to be a thing of the past. The second half started with an argy-bargy filled whirlwind of digs and dunts and tussles - Adrian Mullen ripped into his college mate Rory O'Connor with a shoulder not long before Paddy Deegan and Liam Óg McGovern got stuck in to it. Wally is always good for one and his point, just after the break, looked like it might be a momentum shifter. They say that, no matter how badly things are going, the best players will block it out regardless. Nothing like the old rival to resuscitate and, while they took their time, they eventually shook the thing up. They did everything to carry their team over the line and that's why, in front of us, Wexford supporters throwing programmes into the sky in celebration. Mossy, to be fair to him, has been flying it recently and after being set up by Cian Kenny, he never looked like missing that early goal chance. Because having scourged Kilkenny with one of those virtuoso performances he usually saves for them, Lee Chin had hurled up a storm in front of them. Like he often does. To their credit, they'll travel in numbers regardless and, like few others, they'll shout even when they have little to shout about but, for the first time in this championship and for the first time in quite a while, the people of Wexford had every reason to shout tonight. At the same time, there were Kilkenny lads calling Fergal Horgan a Tipperary so and so and they were, quick as flashes, comforting themselves in the fact that they've a Leinster final to prepare for and Wexford don't. But still, even as Leinster finalists, they'll be a small bit worried tonight.

All the form was with Kilkenny but in these situations Wexford can always hope to draw on their rich history of producing special performances against their ...

Wexford started off well, scoring the first two points, the opening score from Jack O’Connor coming around 20 seconds in, but Kilkenny settled and Mossy Keoghan picked up where he left off in Parnell a week earlier by scoring a goal in the eighth minute. They marched off the field with fire in their bellies at the interval, having trailed by five points at one stage, picking off points out the field when the options closer to goal were closed off with typically stubborn and fierce Kilkenny defending. In the middle of the field Diarmuid O’Keeffe landed two massive scores in the first half, Wexford leading 1-11 to 1-8 at half time. Lee Chin scored 0-9, seven of those frees, and his second from play came late in the match when Wexford seemed to hit a new gear, a tremendous catch over Tommy Walsh before he shot between the posts. Kilkenny didn’t surrender easily but were not able to repeat the same level of hurling they served up in Parnell Park a week earlier. All the form was with Kilkenny but in these situations Wexford can always hope to draw on their rich history of producing special performances against their old provincial rivals.