Andy Farrell’s side hope to end a run of seven defeats in seven World Cup quarter-finals in Paris on Saturday night
Dan Sheehan says Ireland will treat Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against New Zealand ‘like another game. It’s knockout rugby’.Dan Sheehan says Ireland will treat Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against New Zealand ‘like another game. It’s knockout rugby’.
“The past is the past,” said the All Blacks head coach, Ian Foster, and you had to admit he had a point. An occasion dripping with significance, wherever you care to look, will come down to who delivers on the day. For a start Ireland have never progressed beyond the last eight. Add the fact that the great Irish fly-half and captain, Johnny Sexton, is set to retire and has entered the knockout phase of his glittering career.
The consensus is – even though their more pessimistic fans may disagree – that if Ireland play to their potential, they will get over the line. While New Zealand started to throw the ball around with abandon in the pool stage, there is a doubt over whether they can match Ireland’s power up front.about 80 minutes, 15 v 15 and all that, there is a piece of history that matters for the All Blacks.
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