RWC2019: Ireland 35 Russia 0

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Usually a seven try victory suggests a quality performance, particularly for a side like Ireland who wouldn’t be known to blow opposition teams away – the Scotland game being the exception – but I couldn’t help feel that Ireland produced a stuttering performance against a Russian side who are the 20th ranked side in the world.

Ireland (21) 35

TRY: Rob Kearney, Peter O’Mahony, Rhys Ruddock, Andrew Conway, Garry Ringrose

CON: Johnny Sexton (3), Jack Carty (2)

Russia (0) 0

Rob Kearney opened the scoring after just a minute scything through a porous defence that missed 23 tackles over the duration of the match. Peter O’Mahony scored his first international try in six years with 12 minutes gone as he latched onto a Johnny Sexton kick through.

Indeed the opening 15 minutes were decent from an Irish perspective. Kearney’s try was well worked with Jordi Murphy providing a deft inside ball to his former Leinster team . . .

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