Ireland 35-0 Russia
Date:
Venue: Kobe Misaki Stadium, Kobe
Referee: Jérôme Garcès (France)
Attendance: 26,856
Ireland v Russia Match Reports
Ireland put last week's disappointing loss to Japan behind them with a bonus-point 35-0 victory over Russia in their third Pool A match. Rob Kearney, Peter O'Mahony and Rhys Ruddock all crossed in the first half to give Ireland a 21-0 half-time lead. After the break, Andrew Conway secured the bonus point with Ireland's fourth try, before Garry Ringrose added a fifth to complete a resounding victory. A selection of match reports is listed below:
- Autumn Internationals: Ireland left with injury concerns after bonus-point win over Russia
- BBC: Ireland labour to bonus-point win over Russia
- Guardian: Ireland get World Cup campaign back on track with hard-fought Russia rout
- Daily Mail: Joe Schmidt's side bounce back from shock Japan defeat in style as they ease past Bears with bonus-point victory
- Sky Sports: Under-par Ireland register bonus-point win in Rugby World Cup Pool A
- Irish Times: Ireland make heavy weather of Russia win
Ireland v Russia - Match Highlights
Ireland v Russia - Match Stats
Ireland: (21) 35
Try: Kearney (2'), O'Mahony (13'), Ruddock (35'), Conway (62'), Ringrose (76')
Conversion: Sexton (3', 14', 37'), Carty (63', 77')
Russia: (0) 0
Man of the match: Rhys Ruddock (Ireland)
Ireland v Russia - Team Line-ups
Ireland Team
Forwards
- 1 Dave Kilcoyne
- 2 Niall Scannell
- 3 John Ryan
- 4 Tadhg Beirne
- 5 Jean Kleyn
- 6 Rhys Ruddock
- 7 Peter O'Mahony
- 8 Jordi Murphy
Backs
- 9 Luke McGrath
- 10 Jonathan Sexton (Captain)
- 11 Keith Earls
- 12 Bundee Aki
- 13 Garry Ringrose
- 14 Andrew Conway
- 15 Rob Kearney
Replacements
- 16 Sean Cronin
- 17 Andrew Porter
- 18 Tadhg Furlong
- 19 Iain Henderson
- 20 CJ Stander
- 21 Conor Murray
- 22 Jack Carty
- 23 Jordan Larmour
Russia Team
Forwards
- 1 Andrei Polivalov
- 2 Evgeny Matveev
- 3 Kirill Gotovtsev
- 4 Andrey Garbuzov
- 5 Bogdan Fedotko
- 6 Anton Sychev
- 7 Tagir Gadzhiev
- 8 Victor Gresev
Backs
- 9 Dmitry Perov
- 10 Ramil Gaisin
- 11 Denis Simplikevich
- 12 Kirill Golosnitskiy
- 13 Igor Galinovskiy
- 14 German Davydov
- 15 Vasily Artemyev (Captain)
Replacements
- 16 Stanislav Selskii
- 17 Valery Morozov
- 18 Vladimir Podrezov
- 19 Andrey Ostrikov
- 20 Evgeny Elgin
- 21 Sergey Ianiushkin
- 22 Roman Khodin
- 23 Vladimir Ostroushko