Wales vs. Ireland Result: Irish Outnumbered the Wales
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| Wales vs. Ireland Result |
The Irish team starts their world cup campaign with a comfortable win over the wales in Cardiff. Ireland made a dream start of their world cup preparations with an impressive 35-21 victory over Wales in an important match at the Millennium Stadium. With this win, Ireland has also secured the second place of World Rankings by overtaking the mighty South Africans. Richard Hibbard, Justin Tipuric scored tries for the winning side as well as Alex Cuthbert scored a late score for them in the match. The performance of some players from the Ireland team was that much impressive that they deserve the places in Gatland’s 31-men final squad. Despite of such a breakdown of result, Wales skipper Scott Williams was satisfied with the team performance. He said,
For the first time boys have played together as a team and I am satisfied the way they have ended this up.
The last time these two teams met at the Millennium Stadium, the Welsh was the winning side. They defeated the Irish with a result of 23-16 victory which was one of the best matches ever held in the stadium. But this time from the very beginning of the match Wales just got out-paced with the sharp attack of the Irish. The Irish also took the early advantage of the handling errors of the Welsh which was also not in a short supply. Welsh skipper Scott Williams failed to clear from a scrum just after eight minutes of the match and the Irish first made a try by sending the skipper Heaslip into one corner and turning the ball over to him. Irish fly half Paddy Jackson then helped the visiting team to take the full control of the match with a penalty. A stunning tackle from Hibbard held up Keith Earl. Irish got their second lead from the resulting scrum. Eoin Reddan passed a simple and short ball to centre and Cave scored another one from a close range. Thus Irish got a favorable result for their side.
The Irish made their third attempt while Andrew Trimble made a successful tackle on the debutant Welsh player Eli Walker and also allowed Earls to win over the ball and raced to go under the posts. Shortly afterwards, the home sides finally got a chance to cheer as the Welsh scored for the first time from a set piece resulting from a try-saving tackle from Williams. After some moments debutant Welsh Ross Moriarty was showed a yellow for his terrible swinging arm. Three minutes later Zebo scored the fourth for the Irish. The visitors got another lead when Jones scored the fifth. Before 10 minutes from the end of match, Wales got their second try when Tipuric touched the finishing line with excellent assists from the young Hallam Amos and Tyler Morgan. Cuthbert scored the final goal from the last move of the game that just gave some respect for the Welsh on the scorecard.
Ireland skipper Jamie Heaslip was outstanding throughout the night and awarded the man of the match of the night. Wales will play with Australia, Fiji, England and Uruguay from pool A and Ireland will compete with France, Italy, Canada and Romania in the world cup campaign.
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