Ireland v 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:

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