Dublin's Eoghan O’Donnell is expecting a tight affair in Sunday’s Kilkenny-Wexford Leinster final .
O’Donnell has played against both teams in this year’s competition with Dublin slipping to a five-point loss to Kilkenny in the opening before drawing with Wexford the following weekend.
The two counties themselves then played out a stalemate last Saturday week.
O’Donnell said: “Everyone’s opinion is it’s going to be a very tight game. Like, a draw the last game.
“Wexford haven’t lost a game all year [in championship]. I wouldn’t be able to call it. I haven’t seen any odds with the bookies, but I'd say it’d be very tight.”
O’Donnell will be in Croke Park on a spying mission with Dublin facing the winners of the Westmeath-Laois curtain raiser in a preliminary quarter-final the weekend after next.
“I’d say I'd be doing it anyway regardless because Laois and Westmeath are two top teams and there’s obviously a reason they’re playing at this time of the year.
“So, I think any hurling fan should go in anyway to support them – regardless of if we were playing them or not, or if we were knocked out, you’d be going in to see a good day’s hurling.”
O’Donnell is a doubt for Dublin’s next outing however having been forced out of the first half of their rousing win over Galway earlier this month with a “small tear” in his hamstring.
“I’d say it will be a late call. What I'm targeting at the moment to do is, whether it’s a Saturday or a Sunday game, I'd really have to train on the Thursday or Friday,” he added.
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