Mayo still unbeaten as goal rush floors Tyrone

Two goals in each half propelled Mayo to a comprehensive home victory over Tyrone and meant they remain unbeaten after four rounds of this season's National League.

It was also the Westerners' first victory over Tyrone in Castlebar for more than 40 years, as the 2021 All-Ireland champions slumped to their third away defeat in their four games, having already lost on their travels to Galway and Roscommon.

First-half goals from Aidan O’Shea and James Carr set Kevin McStay’s charges on their way to their second win in seven days on home ground, with Enda Hession and Diarmuid O’Connor also hitting the net in the second period.

Tyrone were powerless to stop Mayo’s attacking raids for long spells with a dozen different players getting on the scoresheet for the winners in front of a crowd of 12,218.

Despite getting off to a slow start, Mayo led at the interval by 2-5 to 0-5.

Tyrone had dominated the first quarter and deservedly led by 0-4 to 0-1 after 20 minutes with well-crafted scores from Darragh Canavan and Darren McCurry supplemented by frees from McCurry and goalkeeper Niall Morgan.

Mayo only converted one of their six chances in that opening quarter and it took them 18 minutes to open their account through a Ryan O’Donoghue free.

But slowly and surely they found their feet and went on to outscore Tyrone by 2-4 to no score in the space of 13 blistering minutes.

The revival began with an inspirational fisted point from Mattie Ruane on 23 minutes sparking the large partisan home crowd into life.

Two minutes later the Mayo supporters were in full voice again as Aidan O’Shea hit the Tyrone net from close-range — despite the best efforts of Niall Morgan and Frank Burns — after Enda Hession had broken the visitor’s defensive line with a