Anthony Lynch was keeping his feet firmly on the ground after inspiring Cork to an impressive Munster SFC semi-final replay over Kerry at Pairc Ui Chaoimh. The Naomh Aban clubman produced arguably the finest performance of his long Cork career when keeping Colm 'Gooch' Cooper scoreless from play as the Rebels made no mistake at the second time of asking. "We had a good advantage at half-time," the man of the match said. "They put it up to us after half-time, but the penalty (scored by Donncha O'Connor) put daylight between us again. "It was very important to get the win, but it's only a Munster semi-final at the end of the day. But at least we're into the Munster final and that's something to look forward to." Conor Counihan was also playing down the significance of the win which confirms Cork's status as All-Ireland contenders. "The reality is that we let them back into a game we were dominating," the Rebels boss said. "That was a feature with us before and something we had to address. We have a lot of work to do coming out of this game. "We did that today but once again we are only in a Munster final and that is going to be a serious battle. The dominance of the 1970s, 80s and 90s with two and three teams is gone, it's so wide open now that it's going to be a serious challenge for us. Hopefully we can rise to that challenge." Tweet

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