Tense, enthralling, unforgiving.

Just some of the adjectives that we can use to describe what we just witnessed at Croke Park.

Dublin trying to make history and Mayo trying to shed the weight of it. 

And in the end, just like 2016, there was just the one point in it as Dean Rock's late free gave Dublin the win by a 1-17 to 1-16 score.

Two Mayo fans on Hill 16 ©INPHO/James Crombie

Dublin's Diarmuid Connolly before the game ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Mayo's Lee Keegan ©INPHO/James Crombie

Dublin's Con O'Callaghan scores his sides first goal ©INPHO/James Crombie

Mayo's Aidan O’Shea with Brian Fenton of Dublin ©INPHO/Tommy Dickson

Mayo's Tom Parsons and James McCarthy of Dublin ©INPHO/James Crombie

Mayo's Andy Moran with Michael Fitzsimons of Dublin ©INPHO/Tommy Dickson

Mayo's Kevin McLoughlin with James McCarthy of Dublin ©INPHO/Tommy Dickson

Dublin's Con O'Callaghan and Aidan O’Shea of Mayo share a joke ©INPHO/James Crombie

Dublin's Eoghan O'Gara with Colm Boyle of Mayo ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Second Half 

Mayo's Aidan O’Shea with Ciaran Kilkenny of Dublin ©INPHO/Tommy Dickson

Dublin's Dean Rock kicks a free ©INPHO/Tommy Dickson

Mayo's Donal Vaughan strikes John Small of Dublin ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Mayo's Donal Vaughan receives a red card from referee Joe McQuillan after a strike on John Small of Dublin ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Mayo's Lee Keegan scores their first goal of the game ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Mayo's Lee Keegan celebrates scoring his sides first goal ©INPHO/James Crombie

Mayo's Chris Barrett with Dean Rock of Dublin ©INPHO/Tommy Dickson

Mayo manager Stephen Rochford dejected after the game ©INPHO/James Crombie

Dublin's goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton lifts the Sam Maguire Cup ©INPHO/James Crombie