Vibrant Tyrone roar past Roscommon and into All-Ireland U20 final

Tyrone marched emphatically into the Eirgrid All-Ireland U-20 final with a devastating attacking display in Kingspan Breffni on Saturday evening, where 11 players got on the scoresheet as they powered past Roscommon.

There was no shortage of energy and effort from the Connacht champions, and with the majority of the 1,521 attendance roaring them on, they looked like they might pull off an upset when goals from Conor Ryan and Bobby Nugent at the start of the second half brought them back to within a point, having trailed by seven at half-time.

However a couple of very scorable chances to surf the wave and get in front proved costly, and once Tyrone hit another rich vein of form, they never looked back.

Goalkeeper Conor McAneney got Tyrone out of their mini-funk with a couple of excellent long range kicks, and almost in the blink of an eye, they were out of sight. A clinical fast break saw Conor O'Neill carry the ball out of defence and once the ball was worked into Eoin McElholm, the Loughmacrory attacker executed a slick turn and a perfect low finish to leave Roscommon in a deep hole once again.

This time, the Rossies never looked like finding what they needed. Cormac Devlin fired a couple of points with substitutes Noah Grimes and Conor Owens also adding their names to the lengthy list of scorers, and the only black mark from their perspective was a stoppage time skirmish that saw substitute Ruairí McHugh, as well as Senan Lambe and Ryan Dowling from Roscommon, pick up a straight red card, ruling him out of next weekend’s All-Ireland final against Kerry.

Largely speaking, the first half followed a similar pattern, with Shane McGinley getting the game out to a sensational start with a stunning early goal, only for Tyrone to