There were frustrations in Ireland’s performance but they created some thrilling tries.
There couldn’t have been a more perfect way to cap off Keith Earls’ 100th appearance for Ireland than the sight of the Moyross man launching himself in to score in the left corner.While the celebrations were more about the man himself, the Irish performance in Saturday’s win over England included some fine attacking play worthy of praise.
McCarthy clearly does enough to convince the match officials he hasn’t been involved in the tackle, so he’s free to jackal for the ball and he shows his strength to ride the clearout attempt from two English forwards.Prendergast spins a pass infield and Josh van der Flier makes big gains as England attempt to regather themselves after the turnover.
Earls, meanwhile, was able to show he still has sharp finishing skills. He obviously has time and space wide on the left but Earls has to slow down and jump to gather the pass high over his head. Aki provided the assisting touch in this instance, whereas he was the try-scorer for Ireland’s first in the ninth minute, a score that started with Mack Hansen calmly defusing one of several English bombs.
As we see above, Keenan and Ringrose do a good job hitting the breakdown and Ireland score on the next phase. Clearly, Stuart is concerned about Aki’s potential involvement but he doesn’t realise until too late that Genge is biting in on van der Flier, leaving the door wide open for that deft tip-on pass.
Ireland had lost the gainline on first phase of their lineout attack but still managed to create an opening off slow ball on second phase. Van der Flier is again at the heart of the 3-pod [red above] and he sweeps the ball out the back to Byrne, with the out-half passing behind the first 2-pod to Lowe, who throws another pass wide to O’Mahony.
As Furlong gets ready to receive the ball in the shot above, we can see that Hansen [yellow] is lined up ‘in the boot’ out the back, although Byrne is arriving there and shifts him into a wider position. Hansen’s kick lands ideally into the arms of Ringrose, who is able to step back inside Steward and fend Daly for the finish.Ireland’s third try came at the end of a multi-phase passage soon after Vunipola’s high tackle was sent for the bunker review.
Two phases later, we see a repeat of a play that we also saw against Italy, with Byrne hitting the edge forward in the first 2-pod, who then swivels to pass out the back. England have completely narrowed up and we can hear Byrne screaming, “Jamo!” as he calls for the ball from Gibson-Park. Gibson-Park is hovering nearby, doing his best not to attract any attention but he’s a key man, as we see below when Prendergast swings a pass out the back to him at a late stage.
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