O'Rourke on Tyrone win and 'bad' McKernan injury

Tyrone boss Malachy O'Rourke praised his side's efficiency in their 0-31 to 0-18 win over Cavan which booked their place in the All-Ireland quarter-finals.

The Red Hands bounced back well from defeat against Mayo last time out as they swept away Cavan at Brewster Park.

They had 11 different scorers as Darren McCurry top scored with 0-9 while Darragh Canavan finished with 0-5 and O'Rourke was content with their attacking display.

"We are delighted, I thought we were efficient up front when we did get the chances, we took a lot of them and I think in the first half our shot to score ratio was maybe 80% which was really high, so very pleased with that," he told BBC Sport NI.

"I thought early on we were conceding a bit of space, and they could have been closer to us but as the game went on, we got a stranglehold round the middle we won a lot of breaking ball, and we used the ball really well going forward."

McKernan went off after two minutes against Cavan

Tyrone finished top of Group Four with the win, beating Donegal on the head-to-head rule and it means they go straight through to the last eight.

That gives them an extra week's rest over their opponent, who will play in the preliminary quarter-finals next weekend.

O'Rourke hopes they can use the additional week's rest to their advantage, although he admitted they may be without forward Michael McKernan for their next game after he went off holding his left arm just two minutes into the Cavan game.

"We were disappointed with the Mayo defeat, so we wanted to make sure we had a better performance today to give us our best chance of topping the group and getting through to the quarter-final so delighted with that and it's a case of recovering and focusing on what's ahead," he added.

"There's no doubt after high intensity games like these boys will be sore, so it gives you a bit of time to recover.

"Unfortunately, Michael McKernan picked up a bad injury, he's away to hospital we don't know exactly what it is but we're hoping it is not as serious as it might be, and he'll have a chance to be there in two weeks' time."