Armagh coach Conleith Gilligan feels his gamers are “cute sufficient” to not underestimate Tyrone in Sunday’s Ulster Senior Soccer Championship preliminary spherical conflict on the Athletic Grounds.
The Orchard males go into the sport as overwhelming favourites to maneuver right into a quarter-final towards Fermanagh 13 days later, however Gilligan insists they don’t seem to be pondering alongside these strains.
Armagh retained their Division One standing within the league whereas Tyrone did likewise within the second division, however the Purple Fingers had been tipped to do far more on the outset.
Malachy O’Rourke’s facet struggled to hit prime type, however Gilligan feels Sunday’s derby match might nicely produce a a lot completely different Tyrone problem and it’s one Armagh are prepared for.
“The proximity of Armagh to Tyrone, even our youthful gamers would have checked out their youthful gamers profitable Hogan Cups and All-Eire U20s, so there is not any phantasm with the youthful gamers as to the standard Tyrone have,” Gilligan stated.
“The older gamers, they have been by the mill earlier than and been stung in massive video games earlier than the place they had been alleged to be favourites. Final yr’s Kerry sport was the prime instance, the place the expectation was that Kerry would not beat Armagh, and look how that turned out.
“The truth that the league is completed now, each crew’s on the lookout for that one massive win to ignite their summer season. From a Tyrone perspective, going to Armagh to try this can be excessive on their listing of priorities.”
