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20th Sep 2014

All-Ireland Football Final: Donegal v Kerry in numbers

To get you in the mood for the big game, here are some facts and figures about the two sides competing in the fixture.

Alan Loughnane

The 128th All-Ireland Football Final is just around the corner and if all the ticket holders attend the game, 82,000 beating hearts will fill the stands on Sunday. To get you in the mood for the big game, here are some facts and figures about the two sides competing on the biggest day in the Gaelic Football calendar.

 0- The number of times these two sides have met in the All-Ireland Final.

1- The number of All-Ireland’s this Donegal side have won under Jim McGuinness.

1- The number of Dublin kickouts Donegal won in the semi-final.

9- The average score James O’Donoghue has landed in his four championship games this year. He’s scored 4-34 overall.

76- The percentage of chances that James O’Donoghue has converted.

James O'Donoghue celebrates scoring his sides first goal 1/9/2013

James O’Donoghue will be Kerry’s main threat on Sunday

36- The number of All-Ireland Senior Football medals in the Kerry squad (including Colm Cooper)

23- The percentage of chances that Colm McFadden has converted.

20- The number of All-Ireland Senior Football medals in the Donegal squad.

21- The number of All-Stars awards amongst the Kerry panel (including Colm Cooper)

11- The number of All-Stars awards amongst the Donegal panel.

1,076- The number of frees (allegedly) Kieran Donaghy won in Kerry’s semi-final replay with Mayo.

50,000- The number of cows that won’t be milked the day after the All-Ireland.

2- Sunday will be just the second ever Championship meeting between these two sides with Donegal coming out on top in their first meeting in 2012.

colmmcfadden

Colm McFadden has converted just 23% of his shots this season

111- The total (in points) that Kerry have scored so far in five Championship games. They’ve scored 6-93 overall.

92- The total (in points) that Donegal have scored so far in five Championship games. They’ve scored 8-68 overall.

24- An educated guess at the amount of songs written in support of Kerry and Donegal this Sunday.

8- The number of goals scored by Donegal in this Championship.

14- The number of players Donegal get behind the ball in defence (at times).

6- The number of goals scored by Kerry this Championship.

153,291- The number of “Yerrahs” that will be used by Kerry people in the lead-up to Sunday’s match.