Italy v Ireland

Date:

Venue: Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Referee: Glen Jackson (New Zealand)

Attendance: 49,720

Italy v Ireland Match Reports

Ireland avoided a potential upset by coming from behind to beat Italy 26-16 at Stadio Olimpico. Both sides scored two tries apiece in the first half, but Tommaso Allan's penalty kicks helped Italy to a 16-12 half-time advantage. Ireland then scored two further tries in the second-half, whilst keeping Italy scoreless, to take a hard earned bonus-point victory in Rome. A selection of match reports is listed below:

Italy v Ireland - Match Highlights

Italy v Ireland - Match Stats

Italy: (16) 16
Try: Padovani (33'), Morisi (39')
Penalty: Allan (20', 26')

Ireland: (12) 26
Try: Roux (11'), Stockdale (21'), Earls (50'). Murray (67')
Conversion: Sexton (12'). Murray (52', 68')

Man of the Match: Peter O'Mahony (Ireland)


Italy v Ireland - Team Line-ups

Italy Team Line-up

Forwards

  • 1 Andrea Lovotti
  • 2 Leonardo Ghiraldini (Captain)
  • 3 Simone Ferrari
  • 4 Federico Ruzza
  • 5 Dean Budd
  • 6 Jimmy Tuivaiti
  • 7 Maxime Mbanda
  • 8 Abraham Jurgens Steyn

Backs

  • 9 Tito Tebaldi
  • 10 Tommaso Allan
  • 11 Angelo Esposito
  • 12 Luca Morisi
  • 13 Michele Campagnaro
  • 14 Edoardo Padovani
  • 15 Jayden Hayward

Replacements

  • 16 Luca Bigi
  • 17 Cherif Traore
  • 18 Tiziano Pasquali
  • 19 David Sisi
  • 20 Alessandro Zanni
  • 21 Guglielmo Palazzani
  • 22 Ian Mckinley
  • 23 Tommaso Castello

Ireland Team Line-up

Forwards

  • 1 Dave Kilcoyne
  • 2 Sean Cronin
  • 3 Tadhg Furlong
  • 4 Ultan Dillane
  • 5 Quinn Roux
  • 6 Peter O'Mahony (Captain)
  • 7 Sean O'Brien
  • 8 Jordi Murphy

Backs

  • 9 Conor Murray
  • 10 Jonathan Sexton
  • 11 Jacob Stockdale
  • 12 Bundee Aki
  • 13 Chris Farrell
  • 14 Keith Earls
  • 15 Rob Kearney

Replacements

  • 16 Niall Scannell
  • 17 Jack McGrath
  • 18 John Ryan
  • 19 Iain Henderson
  • 20 Josh van der Flier
  • 21 John Cooney
  • 22 Jack Carty
  • 23 Andrew Conway
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