'You could see them tightening up'
May 17, 2024
Armagh's Stephen Sheridan scores a goal past Donegal goalkeeper Shaun Patton. ©INPHO/James Crombie.
Lee Keegan has questioned Armagh’s mentality after their latest Ulster SFC final heartbreak.
Kieran McGeeney’s charges came out on the wrong side of a penalty shootout yet again at Clones last Sunday after surrendering a four-point lead to Donegal with 17 minutes of normal time remaining.
“[Armagh] seemed to seize up in sight of the finish line,” former Mayo star Keegan wrote in his weekly column for RTÉ.
“It was as if someone had fastened a straitjacket on them. You could see them tightening up, trying to manage the game to a conclusion rather than playing the match before them.
“We know it could hardly be a question of running out of steam. After all, they were liberated again in extra-time and built up another lead until the closing minutes. That shows it's a psychological and mental thing.
“Their approach in the last 20 minutes of normal time demonstrated that they made a lot of their own bad luck.”
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