Ireland 29-10 Italy
Date:
Venue: Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Referee: Luke Pearce (England)
Attendance: 30,000
Ireland v Italy Match Reports
Joey Carbery suffered an ankle injury scare as Ireland eased past Italy 29-10 in their first World Cup warm-up match in Dublin. Carbery, Dave Kearney, Andrew Conway, Jordi Murphy and Kieran Marmion all crossed as an experimental Ireland line-up secured a routine Aviva Stadium victory. A selection of match reports is listed below:
- Autumn Internationals: Carbery ankle injury scare overshadows Ireland World Cup warm-up win over Italy
- BBC: Experimental Ireland cruise to victory over Italy in warm-up
- Guardian: Joey Carbery injury mars Ireland's World Cup warm-up victory over Italy
- ESPN: Carbery injured as Ireland cruise past Italy
- RTE: Routine Ireland win overshadowed by Carbery injury
- Irish Times: Joey Carbery injury overshadows facile Italy win
- Irish Rugby: Five-Try Triumph Gets Ireland Up And Running
Ireland v Italy - Press Conference
Ireland v Italy - Match Stats
Ireland: (19) 29
Try: Carbery (18'), Kearney (29'), Conway (38'), Murphy (45'), Marmion (63')
Conversion: Carbery (19', 30')
Italy: (10) 10
Try: Mbanda (13'), Canna (21')
Man of the match: Andrew Conway (Ireland)
Ireland v Italy - Team Line-ups
Ireland Team
Forwards
- 1 Jack McGrath
- 2 Rob Herring
- 3 Andrew Porter
- 4 Devin Toner
- 5 Jean Kleyn
- 6 Rhys Ruddock (Captain)
- 7 Tommy O'Donnell
- 8 Jordi Murphy
Backs
- 9 Luke McGrath
- 10 Joey Carbery
- 11 Dave Kearney
- 12 Chris Farrell
- 13 Garry Ringrose
- 14 Andrew Conway
- 15 Jordan Larmour
Replacements
- 16 Niall Scannell
- 17 Cian Healy
- 18 John Ryan
- 19 Iain Henderson
- 20 Tadhg Beirne
- 21 Kieran Marmion
- 22 Jack Carty
- 23 Mike Haley
Italy Team
Forwards
- 1 Nicola Quaglio
- 2 Oliviero Fabiani
- 3 Marco Riccioni
- 4 Alessandro Zanni
- 5 Dean Budd (Captain)
- 6 Giovanni Licata
- 7 Maxime Mbanda'
- 8 Jimmy Tuivaiti
Backs
- 9 Guglielmo Palazzani
- 10 Carlo Canna
- 11 Giulio Bisegni
- 12 Matteo Minozzi
- 13 Tommaso Benvenuti
- 14 Angelo Esposito
- 15 Edoardo Padovani
Replacements
- 16 Federico Zani
- 17 Andrea Lovotti
- 18 Simone Ferrari
- 19 Marco Lazzaroni
- 20 Renato Giammarioli
- 21 Callum Braley
- 22 Ian Mckinley
- 23 Sebastian Negri