Ireland’s superior conditioning helped them punish Romania in the stifling heat of Bordeaux
Indeed, not the least impressive aspect of Ireland’s display was how fit they looked, as well as skilful. This was typified by their refusal to kick the ball dead near their own line with the clock in the red. Mack Hansen started running around and looking for some space like an under-12s player, as Andy Farrell put it, before Aki reclaimed Jack Crowley’s dink to offload off the deck to Garry Ringrose as he broke free.
There were another four lineouts lost on the Irish throw and after a three-try riposte, errors crept into Ireland’s game. Among the 17 turnovers were 11 handling errors before they were reignited by Jamison Gibson-Park’s quick tempo and Aki scoring one try and setting up another for Sexton. But this was an understandable consequence of their increasing ambition. There were also a whopping 27 offloads.
The ball-playing interlinking of backs and forwards, deciding when to crowd the midfield channels or go wide, with options to do both continuously, showed what a difficult side Ireland are to contain with front-foot ball. Ireland’s Tadhg Beirne wins a lineout during the game against Romania. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/inpho
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