Colm O'Driscoll says patience is the key to unlocking Donegal's packed defence.

Ahead of Saturday's crunch qualifier at Croke Park, the Cork man told The Irish Examiner: "When you're playing against a packed defence such as theirs and, when you look up and see all the bodies around you, patience is needed.

"Donegal have a system and a very good system at that. It can be very difficult to play against. The management will have looked at it and we will have our game-plan in place. All we can do is implement it as best we can.

"I was playing against them in Ballybofey earlier this year in the league and that was one of our poorer performances. It is a difficult place to go, but that's no excuse. We didn't play well. We were turned over too easily. We have to make sure that doesn't happen the next day.

"What you take from a game like that is you have got to be at your best to beat the top teams in the country. We have been preparing well and building slowly from a poor start.

"We know that Donegal is going to be a massive test for us. We realise ourselves that there is going to be a big improvement needed from our last two games. We are building towards that and we are going in the right direction."

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