Five-time All-Ireland winner Tomás Ó Sé says he expects Kerry to make a big improvement in defence against Mayo on Sunday.

The two counties clash at Croke Park for a berth in next month's Sam Maguire Cup decider and Ó Sé, who has been impressed by Mayo's counter-attacking football this season, feels that the Kingdom will need to raise their game considerably at the back.

"I think Kerry were opened up at the back a little bit too often (this year). Cork and Galway didn't take advantage of it," the RTE analyst told 2fm's Game On programme.

"One of the days, some team will take advantage of it. To be fair to Éamonn Fitzmaurice and Kerry, they seem to get it right for the likes of Dublin and the bigger teams, so I'd be expecting a big improvement there the next day."

He added: "Definitely our (Kerry) defence is an area Mayo will be looking at because they created six or seven good goal chances the last day with their running defence.

"They obviously had licence to get forward. You had Keith Higgins, Colm Boyle, Chris Barrett coming forward, Lee Keegan is back, they have players that can trouble Kerry.

"I think Kerry will have their homework done properly and will try and stop these fellas making their runs from far out."

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