Six Nations - Lansdowne Road, 25 February 2012, 13:30 local, 13:30 GMT
Ireland (17) 42 - 10 (10) Italy (FT)

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Summary

Time Score  
7 0 - 3

Botes opens the scores from dead in front

10 3 - 3

Sexton lands his first kick to level the game

15 8 - 3

Ireland's pressure tells as Earls crashes over in the corner

17 10 - 3

Sexton adds the extras from out wide

34 10 - 8

Parisse steams over under the posts after a massive surge

35 10 - 10

Botes adds the easy extras

38 15 - 10

Bowe makes a dent with a try in the corner

39 17 - 10

Touchline conversion added by Sexton

48 20 - 10

Sexton capitalises on a scrum penalty

58 23 - 10

Sexton marches on from the tee, another sweet strike

60 28 - 10

Straight and hard, Bowe powers over for his second

61 30 - 10

Shaky one from Sexton, but over it goes

76 35 - 10

A close-range try for prop Tom Court

78 37 - 10

Sexton adds the simple conversion

79 42 - 10

A long run in at the corner from Trimble

Timeline

Time Ireland  Score  Italy
0 start of first half start of first half
7 0 - 3 Botes - penalty goal
10 Sexton - penalty goal 3 - 3
15 Earls - try 8 - 3
17 Sexton - conversion 10 - 3
34 10 - 8 Parisse - try
35 10 - 10 Botes - conversion
38 Bowe - try 15 - 10
39 Sexton - conversion 17 - 10
40 end of first half end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
48 Sexton - penalty goal 20 - 10
54 Murray - sub off
Reddan - sub on
58 Sexton - penalty goal
Ryan - sub on
O'Callaghan - sub off
O'Mahony - sub on
O'Brien - sub off		 23 - 10 Pavanello - sub on
Geldenhuys - sub off
Burton - sub on
Botes - sub off
60 Bowe - try 28 - 10
61 Sexton - conversion 30 - 10
63 Favaro - sub on
Barbieri - sub off
Sgarbi - sub off
Canale - sub on
67 Earls - sub off
McFadden - sub on		 Cittadini - sub off
Staibano - sub on
69 O'Gara - sub on
D'Arcy - sub off
Cronin - sub on
Best - sub off
Healy - sub off
Court - sub on
71 d'Apice - sub on
Ghiraldini - sub off
Semenzato - sub on
Gori - sub off
76 Court - try 35 - 10
78 Sexton - conversion 37 - 10
79 Trimble - try 42 - 10
80+1 end of second half
end of half		 end of second half
end of half
0
81

Notes

 
Result Ireland won by a margin of 32 points
Six Nations points Ireland 2, Italy 0
 
Ground name Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Attendance 51000
 
Referee CP Joubert (South Africa)
 
Ireland Test debuts PJ O'Mahony
Italy Test debuts none

Teams

Ireland Italy
Tries Earls (15), Bowe (38, 60), Court (76), Trimble (79) Tries Parisse (34)
Cons Sexton (17, 39, 61, 78) Cons Botes (35)
Pens Sexton (10, 48, 58) Pens Botes (7)
    Team
15 FB
Rob Kearney
14 W
Tommy Bowe
13 C
Keith Earls
12 C
Gordon D'Arcy
11 W
Andrew Trimble
10 FH
Johnny Sexton
9 SH
Conor Murray
1 P
Cian Healy
2 H
Rory Best
3 P
Mike Ross
4 L
Donncha O'Callaghan
5 L
Paul O'Connell (c)
6 F
Stephen Ferris
7 F
Sean O'Brien
8 N8
Jamie Heaslip
    Replacements
16 H
Sean Cronin
17 P
Tom Court
18 L
Donnacha Ryan
19 F
Peter O'Mahony
20 SH
Eoin Reddan
21 C
Ronan O'Gara
22 C
Fergus McFadden
    Team
15 FB
Andrea Masi
14 W
Giovanbattista Venditti
13 C
Tommaso Benvenuti
12 C
Alberto Sgarbi
11 W
Luke McLean
10 FH
Tobie Botes
9 SH
Edoardo Gori
1 P
Michele Rizzo
2 H
Leonardo Ghiraldini
3 P
Lorenzo Cittadini
4 L
Quintin Geldenhuys
5 L
Marco Bortolami
6 F
Alessandro Zanni
7 F
Robert Barbieri
8 N8
Sergio Parisse (c)
    Replacements
16 H
Tommaso d'Apice
17 P
Fabio Staibano
18 L
Antonio Pavanello
19 F
Simone Favaro
20 SH
Fabio Semenzato
21 FH
Kris Burton
22 C
Gonzalo Canale

Match stats

Ireland   Italy
5 Tries 1
4 from 5 Conversion goals 1 from 1
3 from 3 Penalty goals 1 from 4
87.5% Kick at goal success 40.0%
0 Dropped goals 0 (1 missed)
Kick/pass/run
18 Kicks from hand 17
154 Passes 112
139 Runs 83
475 Metres run with ball 280
Attacking
62% Possession 38%
62% Territory 38%
16 Clean breaks 3
24 Defenders beaten 3
13 Offloads 8
106 from 111 (95.5%) Rucks won 52 from 61 (85.2%)
3 from 3 (100.0%) Mauls won 1 from 4 (25.0%)
11 Turnovers conceded 18
Defensive
89/3 Tackles made/missed 143/23
96.7% Tackling success rate 86.1%
Set pieces
6 won, 0 lost (100.0%) Scrums on own feed 6 won, 1 lost (85.7%)
6 won, 2 lost (75.0%) Lineouts on own throw 8 won, 1 lost (88.9%)
Discipline
11 Penalties conceded 13
0/0 Yellow/red cards 0/0

Ire stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Kearney 0/0 0 3/3/14 104 4 9 0 3 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Bowe 2/0 10 0/1/11 33 2 0 1 1 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Earls 1/0 5 1/5/9 51 2 1 3 0 6/1 0/0 0 0/0
C D'Arcy 0/0 0 0/9/8 44 3 4 0 1 5/1 0/0 2 0/0
W Trimble 1/0 5 0/3/7 65 1 1 0 2 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
FH Sexton 0/1 17 7/22/5 23 0 0 0 1 7/0 0/0 1 0/0
SH Murray 0/1 0 4/55/9 11 0 1 2 0 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Healy 0/0 0 0/2/7 8 0 0 0 0 6/0 0/0 1 0/0
H Best 0/0 0 0/1/5 7 0 0 1 1 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Ross 0/0 0 0/1/2 1 0 0 0 0 5/0 0/0 1 0/0
L O'Callaghan 0/0 0 0/1/4 4 0 0 0 0 3/0 1/0 0 0/0
L O'Connell 0/0 0 0/2/13 28 1 3 0 0 10/0 2/0 2 0/0
F Ferris 0/1 0 0/8/12 28 1 1 3 0 12/0 0/0 1 0/0
F O'Brien 0/0 0 0/4/11 18 0 0 1 0 7/0 1/0 1 0/0
N8 Heaslip 0/0 0 0/3/7 15 0 0 1 0 7/1 1/0 0 0/0
(H) Cronin 0/0 0 0/1/1 8 1 2 0 0 0/0 0/0 1 0/0
(P) Court 1/0 5 0/0/1 1 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Ryan 0/0 0 0/1/5 1 0 0 0 1 2/0 0/1 0 0/0
(F) O'Mahony 0/0 0 0/0/3 3 0 0 0 0 2/0 1/0 0 0/0
(SH) Reddan 0/0 0 1/28/3 18 1 2 1 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) O'Gara 0/0 0 2/3/2 4 0 0 0 1 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) McFadden 0/0 0 0/1/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

Italy stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Masi 0/0 0 2/2/11 63 0 0 0 1 4/1 0/0 0 0/0
W Venditti 0/0 0 0/3/5 28 1 1 0 1 6/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Benvenuti 0/0 0 1/4/5 5 0 0 2 1 4/3 0/0 1 0/0
C Sgarbi 0/0 0 1/4/4 33 1 0 0 0 8/0 0/0 1 0/0
W McLean 0/0 0 2/4/6 33 0 0 0 1 2/2 0/0 0 0/0
FH Botes 0/1 5 4/22/4 8 0 0 1 3 11/2 1/0 0 0/0
SH Gori 0/0 0 6/40/3 5 0 0 0 1 8/1 0/0 1 0/0
P Rizzo 0/0 0 0/0/1 2 0 0 0 1 8/0 0/0 2 0/0
H Ghiraldini 0/0 0 0/3/5 3 0 0 2 1 13/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Cittadini 0/0 0 0/1/5 7 0 0 0 1 9/1 1/0 1 0/0
L Geldenhuys 0/0 0 0/0/2 3 0 0 0 0 8/1 1/0 0 0/0
L Bortolami 0/0 0 0/6/3 3 0 0 0 1 13/2 4/0 0 0/0
F Zanni 0/0 0 0/2/5 12 0 0 1 0 15/1 1/2 1 0/0
F Barbieri 0/0 0 0/0/5 28 0 0 0 1 7/1 0/0 1 0/0
N8 Parisse 1/0 5 0/5/10 16 1 2 1 3 11/2 0/0 1 0/0
(H) d'Apice 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Staibano 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Pavanello 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 6/1 0/0 1 0/0
(F) Favaro 0/0 0 0/2/5 20 0 0 1 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Semenzato 0/0 0 0/4/2 11 0 0 0 2 1/1 0/0 0 0/0
(FH) Burton 0/0 0 1/9/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/2 0/0 1 0/0
(C) Canale 0/0 0 0/1/2 0 0 0 0 0 1/2 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

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