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20th September 2016
09:53am BST

"There was no major panic, really. "I have to look at it back but I thought we had the balance of play in the first half but them goals... yeah, they were bad giveaways. I was at fault for one of them. I left them in behind me and they got a goal out of it. I can't remember the second one, to be honest, but they were two soft goals. "On the balance of play, we were going quite well. [The goals] just killed us. "But there was no major panic. Just keep going and keep doing what we were doing."Those sentiments were shared by Mayo half-back Lee Keegan, who told Parkinson that the half-time talk was about 'keeping our heads'. [caption id="attachment_96027" align="aligncenter" width="600"]
Lee Keegan squares up to Paul Flynn.[/caption]
O'Shea bristled at the suggestion that this Mayo team drops their heads when the going gets extremely tough.
The goals, he insisted, were put to one side as the team spoke about upping the second half ante. O'Shea commented:
"You can win games when you concede goals and when you don't concede goals you can lose games. It doesn't make a difference. "We had opportunities to win the game even though we conceded two goals. I'm sure people will talk about it and it is certainly something we need to brush up on. Hopefully we'll do better the next time."O'Shea says he was delighted when the board showed their would be seven minutes extra time being played. It meant his teammates kept calm and chased down the three-point deficit. "I don't know how it's a surprise that we were competitive," he remarked, "but we were 3/1 underdogs supposedly." The full interview with Séamus O'Shea starts from 18:00. Listen below or subscribe here on iTunes.
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