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Westmeath Team Named For Leinster Football Championship Semi-Final

Friday, 16 July 2021 11:53

Jack Cooney sticks with team that dispatched Laois.

Westmeath have named their starting team as they look to reach a first Leinster Senior Football Championship final since 2016. 

They were defeated by Dublin that day, 2-19 to 0-10 points and it is highly possible that it'll be another showdown with the reigning All-Ireland champions if they succeed against Kildare. 

Jack Cooney has almost a full bill of health heading into the contest, Ciaran Martin a long term absentee following a ruptured achilles against Down in the league.

Westmeath starting XV:

Jason Daly; Jamie Gonoud, Kevin Maguire, Boidu Sayeh; James Dolan, Ronan Wallace, Sam McCartan; Ray Connellon, Sam Duncan; Denis Corroon, Ger Egan, David Lynch; Lorcan Dolan, John Heslin, Ronan O'Toole. 

The lake county should be in buoyant mood after their second half dismantling of Laois while Kildare edged through a hard fought contest with neighbouring Offaly to reach this stage. 

Our Westmeath commentator Gerry Russell caught up with Jack Cooney ahead of the game:

The Lilywhites meanwhile have named their team this morning. 

It shows one change from the team which defeated the faithful, Conor Hartley comes in at wing-forward in place of Alex Beirne. 

Up to 18,000 fans will be in attendance at Croke Park for the game. 

 

 

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