The title holders conceduce four trials in the Irish, letting them seize the offensive bonus, before finally score four minutes before the end of the match.
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On the first day of the Six Nations Tournament 2022, the Irish corrected on Saturday, February 5, the Welsh, 29 to 7. Weakened by absences, they conceded four tests to their opponents, which are thus distributed with the bonus Offensive.
The Irish, disciplined and applied, made the XV bend the rejuvenated leek, which saved honor only at the end of the match with a Taine Basham test on a stolen balloon at the 76 e minute of match.
Twenty years after a historic rout (54-10) in Lansdowne Road, the men of Wayne Pivac paid at the high price the absences of their emblematic captain alum Wyn Jones, but also those of George North, Leigh Halfpenny, Taulupa Faletau , Justin Tipuric, Josh Navidi or Ken Owens.
Doubled Andrew Conway
“We can not come back in the past to recover players who are missing, so we have to shoot today’s lessons and do with the team we currently have. Nobody will be happy to This defeat. We had come here with the will to win and we are all very disappointed, “reacted the Welsh coach at the end of the match.
Opposite, Ireland has been remarkably clean in the contact phases – five penalties conceded only, all in the last half hour of the match – and has recited its rugby, even if there was sometimes a little of waste, especially in the first period. The premises have started the game. Mack Hansen, elected man of the match for his international debut, lit the first wick and, a few seconds later, transmitted from a jumped ball to the Bundee Aki, that the three-quarters center had only flattened In the end (7-0, 4 e ).
Two chess at the foot of Johnny Sexton – Unusual for him – and some poorly exploited situations have done that at the break the score did not reflect green domination (10-0). But soon after the return of the locker room, a beautiful offshore attack allowed Andrew Conway to spend Louis Rees-Zammit into one against one and to cross the line on his momentum, to give a little margin to his family (17-0, 44 e ).
Next Match of Ireland, France
Things have also complicated for the Welsh when Josh Adams, tenured at the center, received a yellow card for a dangerous plaster on Sexton (49 e ), leaving his teammates in digital inferiority. With a lot of patience, chaining the playing times, the Irish built a third try – the second for Conway – very easy with a offshore overnumber (24-0, 52 e ).
A beautiful Garry Rygrose interval taking, after a balloon lost by the Welsh near their 22 meters, then allowed the Irish to make sure the offensive bonus (29-0, 59 e ) and a comfortable success, despite the opposing consolation test at the end of the game.
After its beautiful autumn series, with an organ point a success against New Zealand (29-20), Ireland affirmed its ambitions in this tournament, after its e Place last year. The shock in France, next Saturday, is already a first turning towards the final victory. For Wales on the other hand, youth learning will continue with the reception of Scotland, in a week, at Cardiff.