DUBLIN, Eire — Eire head coach Andy Farrell mentioned he felt his aspect grew to become “too determined” at occasions and bemoaned their error-count after they misplaced 23-13 to New Zealand in Dublin on Friday night.
The defeat meant Eire’s 19-match unbeaten run got here to an finish by the hands of the All Blacks, with Damian McKenzie kicking 18 factors alongside Will Jordan’s second-half strive. Eire, in return, scored eight factors by Jack Crowley with Josh van der Flier scoring their solely strive.
New Zealand had the majority of possession whereas Eire dedicated 13 penalties to the All Blacks’ 5.
Submit-match Farrell mentioned there are areas they should handle as they put together to face Argentina subsequent weekend.
When requested how the temper within the camp was, Farrell answered: “Upset. It is simply summed up with the temper of the dressing room, it is sombre. The lads are gutted, we’re all gutted collectively.
“I assumed we prepped nicely, educated nicely, the boys have been excited concerning the recreation. However we did not handle to place our recreation out on the sector. The opposition have an enormous say in that however we made too many errors, supressed ourselves and the accuracy wasn’t there to win a Check match like that.
“Now we have to search out options as quickly as we presumably can. Now we have a hungry aspect in Argentina who’re taking part in some good rugby. Now we have to get again on the horse.”
Eire led 13-9 after Van der Flier’s forty second minute attempt to Crowley’s conversion. However the All Blacks pinned them again by way of the boot of McKenzie.
Farrell mentioned he thought the “turning level” within the match got here within the sixtieth minute when New Zealand gained a scrum penalty and went out right into a two-point lead. That got here after alternative tight-head Tom O’Toole lasted simply two minutes earlier than sustaining a head harm, which means Finlay Bealham ended up taking part in 78 minutes.
From that time, New Zealand discovered the ascendancy once more, scored their key strive by Jordan after 68 minutes and obtained their 10-point benefit.
Farrell mentioned he’ll look into Eire’s indiscipline and mentioned they’ll search some clarification from World Rugby over sure legislation interpretation after they fell on the mistaken aspect of referee Nic Berry.
“We’ll get a number of solutions in regard to clarification on a number of of them, however it does not matter if it is mistaken or proper, we nonetheless should not have suppressed ourselves,” Farrell mentioned.
“It is not proper to attempt to be determined chasing your tail while you’ve made an error after which compounding it with one other error. We grew to become somewhat bit too determined and on the again of that the power wasn’t what we would have liked nor the accuracy.
“There is no excuses for us. It’s what it’s. The opposition deserved to win. I felt the sport was scrappy, stop-start. It was a gradual sufficient recreation at occasions, and we have to be answerable for bringing our personal power.”
