Armagh boss Kieran McGeeney admitted his side “were a bit disjointed” towards the end of their All-Ireland SFC Round 1 win against Derry at the Athletic Grounds yesterday evening.

Goals from Barry McCambridge and Conor Turbitt helped the All-Ireland champions to a 2-21 to 2-17 victory, with the Oak Leafers’ late pushing including Conor Glass and Dan Higgins as they fell four short in the end.

Speaking on RTE’s The Saturday Game afterwards, McGeeney partially cited his team’s late lapses to emptying his bench.

"It was a mix of the good and bad. We played very well for the first 25 minutes of each half and then went to sleep. And got punished severely for it,” said the 2002 All-Ireland winning captain.

"But you will against first division teams. Lot of learnings but great to get the two points.

"We'll probably be giving it to our subs a bit. They didn't get on the ball as much as we'd like.

"It was in those few minutes we put the three or four subs on, we seemed to lapse a wee bit. We were a bit disjointed coming to the end."

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