Armagh boss Kieran McGeeney credited his team’s defence after last night’s 2-15 to 1-13 victory over Dublin at Croke Park.

The five-point win saw the Orchard County open their Allianz League Division 1 campaign in style and afterwards McGeeney was quick to heap praise on his men at the back.

"They (the defence) did well now. Credit to (Ciaran) McKeever for that, he's been working on them," McGeeney told RTÉ Sport after the win.

"We were a wee bit unlucky last year. We lost Paddy Burns and Aidan Forker for that championship game (against Monaghan) and everyone had a pop at us over it. I thought they did very well tonight, just a bit unlucky with the goal.

"I think if people would actually look at the stats, we haven't been doing too bad. We were missing two of our full-back line last year.

"It's funny the game that was in it, I've seen people talking about how you could drive a bus through our defence, even though Monaghan would be seen as a very good defensive team, we scored the exact same as them bar one point, and yet the same thing isn't applied (to them).

"We had a full-deck to choose from today and it made a big difference for us."

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