Pat Flanagan says Sligo have to carry belief into their Round Four Qualifier against Cork tomorrow.

The Rebels are red-hot favourites to account for the Yeats County and progress to the All-Ireland series but Flanagan will be telling his charges to play with a sense of conviction:

"We have tried to work on our game; we try to be better in each game and just because we are playing Cork doesn't mean we have to change the whole momentum of what we are doing," he told The Irish Times. "We have to believe in what we are doing as well.

"Our positional play has improved since the Galway match and we seem to be a lot more solid; we have conceded just 0-10 in the last two games and although we haven't scored big, we did create some serious chances that we didn't convert.

"People look at the Cork-Kerry game. In my opinion, they are still potential All-Ireland winners so it is going to be very difficult for us.

"We are going to have to play a lot better and try and put pressure on them in the first 20 minutes and then hopefully sow a few seeds of doubt in Cork minds.

"Look, as we saw early against Dublin in the league match, they are capable of putting up very big scores. We would hope to stay in touching distance and be in there in the second half and hopefully cause them some problems." Tweet

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