John Kiely: Limerick's shot efficiency must improve when facing Kilkenny

Limerick manager John Kiely feels his side will have to be more clinical with the chances they create against a "very accurate team" in Kilkenny for Sunday's All-Ireland SHC final at Croke Park.

It's a repeat of last year's decider, which the Treaty just shaded by two points. Another tight encounter is expected as Kiely's side bids to join Cork and Kilkenny in completing a Liam MacCarthy four-in-a-row.

On the task of facing the Cats again, this time managed by Derek Lyng on hurling's biggest day, Kiely told RTÉ Sport: "They are a really strong team, they work extremely hard, they're very efficient – I think they only had four wides in the semi-final [against Clare].

"I was at the match. They played extremely well. Clare brought a huge challenge in that second half and they found the answers to all the questions they were asked

"They’re a very accurate team. If you give them chances they’re going to hurt you. We’ve our work cut out for us but we’ve prepared well and are going to give it our best shot."

On that area of efficiency when targeting the posts, the Treaty boss added: "We want to be accurate, because we know Kilkenny are very accurate. If we’re going to have a chance of beating them, we have to get our shot efficiency down into a level that’s going to be competitive.

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"And probably most importantly, we’re going to have to work really hard. That work rate has to be from the start to the finish. We’ll