Loughrea Lack Support For Sunday Showdown
Ballygunner are hot odds-on favourites to be crowned All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling champions for the second time in five years this weekend as they prepare to face Loughrea in Sunday’s final at Croke Park.
The 12-in-a-row Waterford champions had to turn around a two-point half-time deficit to St. Martin’s in their pre-Christmas semi-final, but punters expect plain sailing for the Munster men with BOYLE Sports chalking them up as 1/3 favourites to get their hands on the Tommy Moore Cup, just four years after they landed their first All-Ireland title at the expense of Ballyhale Shamrocks.
Galway Kingpins Loughrea will have to overcome odds of 21/10 to claim their first All-Ireland crown and will go into Sunday’s showdown without midfielder Cullen Killeen, who has failed with an appeal to overturn a one-match suspension.
Dessie Hutchinson is the man to watch for Ballygunner according to the betting, with the Deise forward favourite to be first to find the net (4/1) and to be named man of the match (9/2).
Lawrence Lyons, spokesperson for BOYLE Sports, said:
“Ballygunner have long ruled the roost in Waterford and with their breakthrough All-Ireland success still fresh in the memory, the vast majority are backing them to repeat the trick against Loughrea.”
All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship
1/3 Ballygunner
21/10 Loughrea
Match Betting
4/11 Ballygunner
10/1 Draw
11/4 Loughrea
Man of the Match
9/2 Dessie Hutchinson
6/1 Patrick Fitzgerald
6/1 Pauric Mahony
7/1 Anthony Burns
14/1 Peter Hogan
14/1 Tiernan Killeen
16/1 Jamie Ryan
20/1 bar
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