Galway set for formidable task against donegal

BARRING a draw in the curtain-raiser between Tyrone and Sligo just nine teams will remain in this year’s All-Ireland Senior Football Championship by the time Galway run out on Croke Park for their Round 4B qualifier with Donegal on Saturday evening (throw-in: 6 o’clock).
Kerry, Dublin, Mayo and Donegal have been ever-present in the quarter-finals since 2011 and only Galway can prevent that quartet from continuing on that trend.
Donegal are widely expected to come through. They have the better form in the book both this year and in the overall lifecycle of their team. The transition from Jim McGuinness to Rory Gallagher was widely seen as seamless after they saw off Tyrone, Armagh and Derry and reached the Ulster final. Now? Has a one-point defeat to Monaghan in a war of attrition changed the landscape enough for an improving team like Galway to take them down?