Former Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice reckons Dublin will become a much tougher team to beat if they can sort out their struggles from the kick-out.

The Dubs head to Omagh this weekend looking to avoid a fifth defeat on the bounce when they take on All-Ireland champions Tyrone.

Speaking on the RTE GAA podcast, Fitzmaurice said that it’s about “getting back to basics” for the capital men after an improved showing in their last outing against Kildare in Newbridge.

"Go back to the Kildare game. In that game - and it was a great win for Kildare in Newbridge and everything else - Dublin had three, if not four, very good goal chances,” he stated. “If they'd taken two of them, it's probably a different conversation we're having about them today. Are they back? Are they going to be able to back it up with another win?

 "I think they got their defensive structure a bit more right against Kildare. They weren't as open and as porous as they were in Croke Park against kicking teams. Healy Park won't play as fast as Croke Park at the weekend, that might help them.

"The decision making of their big players, not kicking it into the goalkeeper's hands, putting it dead, not turning the ball over in the forwards, they're all things that are quite easy to solve really.

"They're the things that have been surprising about their performances, things that we've never seen from them, they've been doing them consistently. If they get all of those things out of the system, they're going to be harder to beat straight away.”

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