Too often we’ve seen Ireland breeze past Italian teams and learn little about themselves. This was something far more worthwhile.
Ciarán Kennedy WITH THE GAME in the balance and the clock inching towards those championship minutes, the cameras panned up to an Ireland coaching box which looked far from content.
A rip-roaring opening 40 in which the two sides shared six tries saw Ireland mix the sublime with the sloppy. With the gifted Ange Capuozzo always dangerous and Paolo Garbisi back in the Italy 10 shirt for the first time this year, the hosts were always going to be ambitious in possession. Their second, arriving in the closing moments of the first half, was a gift: Aki sending the ball straight into the arms of a grateful Pierro Bruno, who took a punt on the intercept and ran the ball home from deep.
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