ITALY
	No.	Name
15Jayden Hayward, FB
14Edoardo Padovani, W T
13Michele Campagnaro, C
12Luca Morisi, C T
11Angelo Esposito, W
10Tommaso Allan, FH  2
9Tito Tebaldi, SH
1Andrea Lovotti, P
2Leonardo Ghiraldini, H
3Simone Ferrari, P
4Federico Ruzza, L
5Dean Budd, L
6Jimmy Tuivaiti, FL
7Maxime Mbanda, FL
8Braam Steyn, N8
Replacements
16Luca Bigi, R
17Cherif Traore, R
18Tiziano Pasquali, R
19David Sisi, R
20Alessandro Zanni, R
21Guglielmo Palazzani, R
22Ian McKinley, R
23Tommaso Castello, R

IRE
	No.	Name
15Rob Kearney, FB
14Keith Earls, W T
13Chris Farrell, C
12Bundee Aki, C
11Jacob Stockdale, W T
10Johnny Sexton, FH 
9Conor Murray, SH T  2
1Dave Kilcoyne, P
2Sean Cronin, H
3Tadhg Furlong, P
4Ultan Dillane, L
5Quinn Roux, L T
6Peter O'Mahony, FL
7Sean O'Brien, FL
8Jordi Murphy, N8
16Niall Scannell, R
17Jack McGrath, R
18John Ryan, R
19Iain Henderson, R
20Josh van der Flier, R
21John Cooney, R
22Jack Carty, R
23Andrew Conway, R

*Players currently on the pitch are shown in bold

Game Info

Venue: Stadio Olimpico

10:00 AM, February 24, 2019

2146dESPN Staff

Ireland dig deep to deny Italy a memorable victory

Ireland had to come from behind in the second half in Rome as the reigning Six Nations champions were given a scare by Italy.

Match Commentary

82'

What next? We've got two weeks to wait for our next dose of Six Nations action as the sides head into another fallow week. When we come back on March 9th we start with a cracker in Edinburgh as Scotland host Grand Slam-chasing Wales at Murrayfield. That's followed by England vs Italy before Ireland play France on March 10th in Dublin. We'll see you then!

82'

Ireland's Jacob Stockdale: "We're happy to get the bonus point but it's frustrating that we didn't put down as much of a marker as we'd hoped for.

"We've got two wins out of three and we're just now focusing on the next game.

82'

Fantasy Rugby: Check your scores!

Conor Murray is your Fantasy Rugby player of the day after his second-half try contributed to a 15-point haul. It's also a good day for any Fantasy Rugby managers who had Quinn Roux or Keith Earls in their team -- they both scored 10 points.

Match Stats

ITALY

IRE

42%

58%

44%

56%

ITALY

IRE

121	Runs	148
501	Meters Run	501
14	Clean Breaks	5
208	Tackles	153
36	Missed Tackles	21
10	Turnover Knock On	11

Standings

Six Nations
R	Team	GP	PD	P
1	ENG	0	0	0
2	FRA	0	0	0
3	IRE	0	0	0
4	ITALY	0	0	0
5	SCOT	0	0	0
6	WALES	0	0	0

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