Bundee Aki and Ross Byrne give Ireland hard-fought victory over Australia

Posted by Xchange Tickets on November 24th, 2022

Ross Byrne landed a dramatic late penalty as Ireland overcame the loss of their captain, Johnny Sexton, to cap a stellar year with a rambling 13-10 win over Australia.

The replacement fly-half Byrne nailed a hard kick from wide on the right with now three minutes remaining in Dublin to earn Ireland a record-equaling 12th successive home victory.

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Andy Farrell’s men struggled for large parts of a unsatisfactory contest and could easily have ended 2022 with a serious realism check against opponents beaten by Italy now last weekend.

Ireland 13-10 Australia: Autumn Nations Series – as it happened

The Ireland centre Bundee Aki marked his go back from an eight-game ban with the opening attempt but the game remained in the balance in the closing phase after Jordan Petaia crossed for the Wallabies.

A hard evening for the Irish began with the talismanic Sexton withdrawing during injury. His deputy, Jack Crowley, booted five points on his maiden Test start previous to Byrne, who was elevated to the bench at the 11th hour, show to be the match-winner.

Victory for Ireland saw them turn out to be the first nation to beat New Zealand, South Africa and the Wallabies in a calendar year as England in 2002. Sir Clive Woodward’s men went on to lift the Rugby World Cup the year after and those leftovers the ultimate goal for Farrell’s side looking in front to next year’s showpiece tournament in France.

Farrell was distant from pleased with what he observer in last weekend’s underwhelming 35-17 win over Fiji and – Sexton aside – welcomed back a crowd of players from injury as part of eight alteration.

The world coach of the year nominee would have in use little encouragement from a glaringly stop-start encounter littered with sloppy errors, penalties and connections of possession.

Relend defended determinedly in the face of incessant pressure for large parts of the opening era, including at one phase repelling 21 phases which sparked a rousing version of The Fields of Athenry, but offered little from an attacking viewpoint.

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Australia thought they had scored a fourth-minute attempt, only for the scrum-half Nic White’s attempt to be disallowed on review since of Dave Porecki’s neck roll on Josh van der Flier. Crowley, wearing the No 10 jersey overstated with Sexton’s name, calmly slotted the only points of the half in the 10th minute.

Wallabies coach

 The Wallabies coach, Dave Rennie, have retained just five of the players who began the awkward 28-27 loss in Florence. The substitute hooker Folau Fainga’a was among the 10 men dropped and, having come on to put back the stricken Porecki, was sent to the peccadillo-bin in the 37th minute after Van der Flier endured another high undertake, before the Irish No 2 Dan Sheehan was held up on the line just before the whistle.

A poor – and, at times, tetchy – Test match was in frantic need of a spark. Ireland scrum-semi Jamison Gibson-Park looked to have provided it seven minutes after the restart other than his score was subsequently chalked off as Canberra-born team-mate Mack Hansen have gone into touch just before a fine relieve of.Australia had briefly been abridged to 13 men at that point owing to the temporary nonattendance of Fainga’a prompting unconcealed scrums.

The Wallabies came through a crucial era in the contest unscathed and were level in the 56th minute thanks to Foley finding his variety with his second penalty. Below-par Ireland finally made a significant dent on the scoreboard 10 minutes later when the substitute Aki came back with a bang by bulldoze over at the end of relentless force which prompted the sell-out crowd to finally discover their voices.

Crowley added the extras other than the joy was swiftly cut short as the Wallabies substitute Petaia broke clear to cross wide on the right, with Foley landing the tricky change.

Ireland looked like they would have to resolve for a rare draw but Byrne remarkably held his nerve as the world’s top-ranked team scraped a ninth win from 11 Tests to round off a memorable year in unconvincing but victorious fashion.

Ronan O'Gara: La Rochelle head coach suspended for 10 weeks, his fourth ban in a year

The French rugby union league said the Ireland legend was balanced for "harming the best wellbeing of rugby".

It did not state when the incident occurred but the only match O'Gara has coached as completing a previous six-week ban was beside Brave on 5 November. He was fined 15,000 euros (£12,925) with a more 5,000 euros suspended.

The former fly-half, who can plea against the punishment, was cited for remarks criticizing the refereeing and the organization of the championship. The authorize is due to last until 30 January and means that O'Gara will not be obtainable for La Rochelle's upcoming Heineken Champions Cup pool games against Northampton Saints and Ulster.

In Nov 2021, O'Gara was banned for two weeks for "showing disregard to the authority of an official" during a match against Toulon.

He was afterward suspended for two weeks in April for "indiscipline" and "challenging the decision of officials" in a game beside Racing 92, although that did not stop him from leading La Rochelle to the European Champions Cup name.

Ireland 13-10 Australia: Autumn Nations Series – as it happened

He was replaced with 8 minutes to go, and Ross Byrne showed a hard nerve when he stepped up and slotted the match winning penalty from the correct hand touch.

The Wallabies had a possibility to win in the last moments. They put a kickable penalty into the corner for a lineout, other than the maul was penalized when halfback Jake Gordon joined from the sid

Then in the last seconds, they wrap an Irish throw in inside the 22 only to undergo a dropped pass which left them losing three as the crow flies times to the home side for the first time as 1968.

Australia also lost not on time to France two weeks ago and, as in Paris, under enemy control long periods of a scrappy match. Halfback Nic White had a 4th minute try chalked off following hooker Dave Porecki was caught doing an illegal neck roll.

Crowley then sent during his only penalty kick of the night while complement Bernard Foley missed his first as the Wallabies were all over Ireland apart from on the scoreboard. A gauge was the Irish having to make 155 tackles. The Wallabies only had to make 56 but their regulation kept stalling their ambition.

Just before halftime, replacement hooker Folau Fainga'a was sinbinned for a neckline roll just minutes following being warned. His teammates, notably White, made sure his nonattendance was not exploited when tries were deprived of either side of the break. White got under Ireland hooker Dan Sheehan to hold him up by halftime, and after the interval he went low on Mack Hansen and Foley went high to shove the Australian-raised Irish winger into touch.

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