Eire placed on an excellent show as they dominated Scotland in a 32-18 victory to remain excellent on this yr’s Six Nations, including gasoline to their bid for an unprecedented third straight title.
Tries from Calvin Nash, captain Caelan Doris, James Lowe and Jack Conan plus 12 factors off the boot of rookie fly-half Sam Prendergast noticed Eire to victory and left them as the one unbeaten crew after the opening two rounds of the match.
They dominated the conflict with relentless stress from each their forwards and backs and restricted the Scots to tries from Duhan van der Merwe, with an outrageous flying one-handed landing within the nook, and a late comfort from Ben White.
Little else went proper for the hosts, who misplaced influential fly-half Finn Russell and flying winger Darcy Graham within the twenty second minute after they clashed heads and have been each compelled from the sphere, Graham on a stretcher and in a neck brace.
Eire stormed into an eighth-minute lead as Prendergast’s lengthy go discovered Nash in acres of house after Scotland’s defence had been sucked inside trying to halt early Irish initiative.
Nash may need had a second strive 5 minutes later however was impeded by Van der Merwe as he chased down the ball. Van der Merwe was yellow carded for tackling the person with out the ball however no penalty strive was awarded.
Eire, nonetheless, scored once more within the thirty first minute as Doris crashed over on the finish of a show of energy from the rampaging forwards for a 17-0 lead.
Van der Merwe’s record-extending thirty first strive for Scotland got here on the stroke of halftime in a uncommon foray into Irish territory.
Eire have been penalised for a maul infringement, permitting Scotland to go the ball down the road, with Stafford McDowall’s again of the hand go discovering Van der Merwe.
He nonetheless had a lot to do to attain however hurled himself into the air and touched down in Gridiron trend within the nook.
It handed Scotland resolve to take into the second half and so they additional diminished the deficit to 17-11 when Blair Kinghorn slotted over two penalties within the 10 minutes after the break, providing some hope to the sell-out 67,000 crowd.
However Eire rapidly quashed any potential comeback and have been again on the right track for an eleventh straight win over Scotland as Lowe scored within the 54th and substitute Conan 5 minutes later.
Eire, searching for to develop into the primary crew to win three successive Six Nations titles outright, additional stretched their lead within the seventieth minute as 21-year-old Prendergast put over his second penalty so as to add to a few conversions.
“There’s a feeling of satisfaction after that one,” Doris mentioned. “We spoke about beginning quick as Scotland are a harmful crew. We did that effectively.”
White’s sniping dart to the tryline within the seventy fifth minute served solely as a comfort for a effectively crushed Scottish facet.
“The boys hung in there however we’re clearly disenchanted with the consequence in the long run.
“The distinction was in all probability their clinicalness within the end zone,” added Scottish skipper Rory Darge.
“We had a couple of alternatives, displaying somewhat bit, however not taking them or changing them into scores.”
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