It wasn't meant to be that easy but it was.
A quick summary there of how Donegal coasted past Armagh in the Ulster SFC quarter-final.
Paddy McBrearty's goal after two minutes set the Anglo Celt Cup holders on their way. At half-time, Joe Brolly on The Sunday Game Live told the watching nation that the game was as good as over once McBrearty's shot found the net.
For Donegal manager, Rory Gallagher, he was pleased with the way his side emphatically laid down an early marker in the Athletic Grounds contest.
Speaking to RTÉ Sport, he said :"I was delighted with the first half. We got off to a good start, built on it and that left us in a great position at half-time.
"The second half kind of petered out, we probably didn't play as well but we remained focussed. Armagh probably shaded the half but we were never really in danger either. It was nice to get home with a resounding victory."
Like many, Gallagher expected the game to be a tighter affair and he added: "We were expecting it to be closer but sometimes games take on lives of their own.
"You get a lead and end up nine or ten points ahead at half-time and it's mentally difficult for the opposition to cope with that."
Next up for Donegal is a date with Derry in the provincial semi-final on 27 June and thoughts will now turn to analysing Brian McIver's troops for Gallagher and his management team.
"We're facing Derry and so it doesn't get any easier.We haven't looked at them yet, we'll look at them in the next couple of days and get our head around them"
Armagh boss Kieran McGeeney, not surprisingly, bemoaned his side's performance in the opening half.
"The first half was very poor. We did everything we weren't supposed to do.
"We got our defensive structure pulled out. Donegal are very good at doing that, with their rotating forwards, trying to pull you outside the 65 so you can't set up a defensive structure.
"They were excellent at it and we were very sloppy at giving the ball away.
"It caused us a lot of problems. Every time we seemed to attack, we gave the ball away.
McGeeney, however, did find some degree of comfort in the way Armagh battled in the second period.
"We settled better in the second half and had a couple of goal chances.
"We had the same scoring chances as Donegal, 25 apiece, but in the second half when we had the wee chink of hope with those goals we missed them.
"Donegal got theirs and I suppose that's the difference between Division 1 and Division 3."
