John Cleary has welcomed the breather Cork will have before their final All-Ireland SFC round-robin game against Roscommon.

The Cork manager felt that fatigue was a factor in his side’s Group 2 Round 2 defeat to Kerry last Saturday which leaves them facing a must-win game against Roscommon at a neutral venue on the weekend after next.

“Tomorrow’s another day. We’ll just have to brush ourselves down and at least we have two weeks now. Travelling up to Meath and coming down and just the week's break, it was pretty tough,” Cleary told reporters after Cork’s 0-20 to 1-28 loss at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

“It’s not an excuse, but I did think we tired out there today in the second half maybe as a slight result of last week. This is it now for us. It’s knockout football now in two weeks.”

He added: “Kerry punished us when they got the space and were deserving winners in the end."

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