Galway manager Pádraic Joyce delighted with win against Tyrone amid more injury concerns

Galway manager Pádraic Joyce was "delighted" his side ground out a win in Omagh, although the victory was caveated by yet more injury concerns.

The westerners, without Damien Comer, Shane Walsh and Cillian McDaid, edged out Tyrone in a tense arm-wrestle, Cathal Sweeney's 49th minute goal proving decisive in a 1-10 to 0-12 triumph.

The win lifts Galway onto three points, with games against Derry, Monaghan, Dublin and Kerry yet to come.

"We're delighted to get out of here with two points. It probably wasn't the best game of football ever played," Joyce told Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1.

"We started the game really well, went 4-2 up. Then we just seemed to run out of ideas up front, where we started carrying the ball into cul de sacs and didn't really penetrate Tyrone the way we should.

"In fairness to Mattie (Tierney) and Johnny Heaney, they got two great scores after half-time to bring it back to 6-6 because had that game gone 7-4, 8-4, there'd probably be only one winner.

"The impact we got off the bench from Danny Flaherty and Rory Cunningham was really good.

"The goal was probably the key turning point of the game, that gave us a big lift. Especially after missing two handy frees that Rob and Mattie should be scoring.

"We needed to regroup a bit (at half-time). There were a few harsh words said. These games, you can have all the skill in the world, and the tactical nuances of it, but unless you've heart and bottle and determination to go and win the game, that's what it boiled down to in the end. Thank God we showed enough of it."

Asked whether a defeat - and a one-point haul from three games ahead of a testing schedule - would have ratcheted up the pressure, Joyce replied: "There's always pressure. People in Galway expect an