Six Nations: England 24 Ireland 12

England brought Ireland’s 2020 Six Nations winning start to a halt with a comfortable 24 -12 win at Twickenham on Sunday afternoon.

We’d lost a bit of interest in this with the COVID restrictions coming into force but here’s the report for posterity.

England pretty much dominated the first half leaving Ireland scoreless at the break. Robbie Henshaw crossed at the start of the second half to give Ireland a glimmer of a chance but by the time Andrew Porter crossed for their second, on the 78th minute, it was nothing more than a consolation try.

England (17) 24

TRY: George Ford, Elliot Daly, Luke Cowan-Dickie

CON: Owen Farrell (3)

PEN: Owen Farrell

Ireland (0) 12

TRY: Robbie Henshaw, Andrew Porter

CON: John Cooney

Ireland’s basic game plan of strong defence, dominate the breakdown, keep it tight and feed of mistakes . . .