‘Job achieved’ for Andy Farrell after Eire lastly see off 14-man England

Head coach Andy Farrell declared it “job achieved” after Eire battled to a pulsating 32-15 win over 14-man England to maintain alive their desires of Guinness Six Nations glory.

Eddie Jones’ heroic hosts performed nearly the whole sport a person down following the shock of dropping Charlie Ewels to a crimson card inside 82 seconds.

The Irish raced into an 8-0 lead and appeared destined to canter to victory however England rallied and offered a serious scare by levelling at 15-15 early within the second interval of a compelling encounter.

Tries from replacements Jack Conan and Finlay Bealham finally earned the error-prone guests their greatest Twickenham win, including to first-half scores from James Lowe and Hugo Keenan to safe a probably essential bonus level.

Eire full the championship at dwelling to Scotland subsequent weekend, with their title problem additionally reliant on England doing them a serious favour towards Grand Slam-chasing France in Paris.

“It was a loopy outdated sport and Take a look at matches are by no means excellent, that’s why they’re known as Take a look at matches,” stated Farrell.

“They’re there to place you underneath strain.

“The gang had been behind them, momentum was going their manner and typically once you’ve bought 14 males you’ve bought nothing to lose; typically once you’ve bought 15 males and also you’re taking part in towards 14 males you’ve bought all the things to lose.

“We grew to become a bit of bit determined at instances, a bit of bit inaccurate at sure phases however having stated all that you simply take the tough with the sleek and we got here away with an excellent victory in the long run.

“It’s by no means going to be excellent. However we managed to discover a manner.

“We talked in the course of the week about discovering a technique to get our supporters singing in the direction of the tip and we did that. We go dwelling tonight to recuperate very completely satisfied. It’s job achieved and we transfer on to the subsequent one.”

England’s brave response to Ewels being dismissed after head-to-head contact with Eire vice-captain James Ryan led to a raucous ambiance in south-west London.

Ryan left the sector and didn’t return however, in accordance with Farrell, recovered sufficiently to hitch the post-match celebrations.

Captain Johnny Sexton, who booted 12 factors throughout the afternoon, landed the resultant penalty, earlier than Lowe’s opening rating put the Irish in command and Keenan crossed simply earlier than the break to maintain them on monitor.

Depleted England dominated the scrums and 5 penalties from fly-half Marcus Smith remarkably introduced them degree in an epic encounter earlier than Eire ultimately surged away late on courtesy of Conan and Bealham.

Farrell was delighted along with his gamers’ composure in testing circumstances.

He stated: “(I’m) over the moon – in the event you’d stated that to us (a bonus-point win) earlier than the beginning of the sport, we’d have snatched your hand off, wouldn’t we?

“It’s clearly a troublesome place to return and we had been underneath a little bit of strain there in that second half for some time and a few of that was our personal doing.

“However the composure we confirmed at 15-15 to stay to our job and are available away with the bonus level was one thing that we ought to be as a gaggle immensely pleased with.

“I believed the lads had been actually calm while underneath a little bit of strain, stayed on job and completely deserved that bonus level in the long run.”

Skipper Sexton doubtless performed his final match at Twickenham after this week saying he’ll retire following subsequent 12 months’s World Cup.

The 36-year-old believes Eire would have slipped to an ignominious defeat had the match been performed a few years in the past.

“It was a great Take a look at match,” he stated. You’re by no means going to return right here and have a simple sport, it doesn’t matter what.

“The optimistic issues we’ll be taught is that I believe two years in the past we might have misplaced that sport.

“At 15-15, we wouldn’t have had the composure to regroup however the psychological abilities and growth we’ve achieved during the last couple of years actually stood to us.”