No. | Name | |
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15Rob Kearney, - | ||
14Keith Earls, - | ||
13Robbie Henshaw, - 2 | ||
12Bundee Aki, - | ||
11Jacob Stockdale, - 2 | ||
10Johnny Sexton, - 5 | ||
9Conor Murray, - | ||
1Jack McGrath, - | ||
2Rory Best, - | ||
3Tadhg Furlong, - | ||
4Iain Henderson, - | ||
5Devin Toner, - | ||
6Peter O'Mahony, - | ||
7Dan Leavy, - | ||
8Jack Conan, - | ||
Replacements | ||
16Sean Cronin, - | ||
17Cian Healy, - | ||
18Andrew Porter, - | ||
19Quinn Roux, - | ||
20CJ Stander, - | ||
21Kieran Marmion, - | ||
22Joey Carbery, - 3 | ||
23Jordan Larmour, - |
*Players currently on the pitch are shown in bold
Match Commentary
For Italy, credit to them for not dropping their heads. They got three tries of their own, could have had more, but failed to make the game a contest -- their performance against England was more threatening than this, and that backwards step will be a disappointment for Conor O'Shea.
It is the first time Irishman Conor O'Shea has taken his Italy team to his native land as coach, and he is looking to reverse an overwhelming weight of history -- in all of the Six Nations games between these nations in Dublin, Ireland lead on aggregate 328-103.