Scotland 24/ 27 Ireland
(Final Score)
Scotland host Ireland this afternoon at Murrayfield in Edinburgh.
Kick off at 17:00 (15:00 GMT).
This will be Scotland’s first test in 4 weeks while Ireland played their last 6 Nations game 2 weeks ago. Can Scotland bounce back from the agony of a narrow defeat at home to Wales in a game they should have won. Or will Ireland have picked up too much confidence from their big win away against Italy in their last game.
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Scorers:
Scotland:
- Penalties – Russell 1
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Russell, Jones, Watson
- Conversions – Russell 1, Hogg 2
Ireland:
- Penalties – Sexton 5
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Henshaw, Beirne
- Conversions – Sexton 1
Teams:
Scotland |
Ireland |
| 15 Stuart Hogg (captain), 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Chris Harris, 12 Sam Johnson, 11 Duhan van der Merwe, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Ali Price, 8 Matt Fagerson, 7 Hamish Watson, 6 Jamie Ritchie, 5 Jonny Gray, 4 Scott Cummings, 3 Willem Nel, 2 George Turner, 1 Rory Sutherland. Replacements: 16 David Cherry, 17 Jamie Bhatti, 18 Simon Berghan, 19 Grant Gilchrist, 20 Nick Haining, 21 Scott Steele, 22 Huw Jones, 23 Darcy Graham. |
15 Hugo Keenan, 14 Keith Earls, 13 Garry Ringrose, 12 Robbie Henshaw, 11 James Lowe, 10 Johnny Sexton (captain), 9 Jamison Gibson-Park, 8 CJ Stander, 7 Will Connors, 6 Tadhg Beirne, 5 James Ryan, 4 Iain Henderson, 3 Tadhg Furlong, 2 Rob Herring, 1 Cian Healy. Replacements: 16 Ronan Kelleher, 17 Dave Kilcoyne, 18 Andrew Porter, 19 Ryan Baird, 20 Jack Conan, 21 Conor Murray, 22 Billy Burns, 23 Jordan Larmour. |
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant referees: Mathieu Raynal (France), Andrea Piardi (Italy)
TMO: Alex Ruiz (France)
Anthems done
Am a bit concerned that Ireland’s pack will over power Scotland’s. Hope am wrong.
CJ Stander’s 50th match for Ireland today. How many would he have had for the Boks by now if he had stayed?
GO SCOTLAND!
Sexton kicks off for Ireland.
Couple of big carries by CJ but defence holds for now
Penalty under the posts to Ireland
Finn Russell lying on the wrong side
Penalty over by Sexton
First scrum of the game in the 6th minute. Ireland put in as they held Scotland player up in the tackle forced a maul which went dead
Try Ireland, Sexton launches a kick into goal and the cruel bounce of the ball favours Ireland for Henshaw to dot down after ball bounced a few times
Conversion by Sexton hit the posts
Penalty to Scotland
Russell slots it but Ireland are back in Scotland’s half again, eventually Scotland play it into Ireland half then knock on
Healy scrumming in at an angle and scrum falls down, not spotted by the ref
Healy scrums in again but again missed, eventually Ireland knock on
Ref is on Healy side now…
Surprise surprise Healy goes in a bit straighter. Collapses and ref gives penalty to Ireland!
Good kick by Keenan takes play deep into Scotland 22
2nd Scotland lineout lost
Penalty Ireland
Kick to touch 5m out
Phew Scotland get a penalty close to their try line, great play by Watson
Poor clearance takes play only to Scotland 22 who eventually secure a sloppy line out
Super counter rucking by Scotland steal the ball and long kick by Russell takes play from near Scotland 22 to inside Ireland 22
Oh dear Jonny Gray getting treatment with his shoulder, would have preferred Skinner to Gilchrist being on the bench, hope Gray is ok
Jonny Gray up again, receives the lineout ball and knocks it on, 3rd line out Scotland lost
Arghh Sutherland knocks on in Ireland 22 after good build up play
Ireland lose their lineout this time
Try given to Russell but Hogg knocked on in build up clearly TMO checking
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