Nations Championship round three<\/p>\n
New Zealand (28) 40<\/p>\n
Tries: Tuipulotu, Savea, Jordan, Aumua, McKenzie, Lienert-Brown Cons: Love 5<\/p>\n
Ireland (7) 21<\/p>\n
Tries: Conan, McCarthy, Keenan Cons: Prendergast 3 <\/p>\n
Ruthless New Zealand scored six tries to overwhelm Ireland and preserve their 32-year unbeaten run at Eden Park in a largely one-sided Nations Championship contest.<\/p>\n
Buoyed by victories over France and Italy, the All Blacks punished a litany of first-half Irish errors as Patrick Tuipulotu, Ardie Savea, Will Jordan and Asafo Aumua all crossed to secure the bonus point. <\/p>\n
Ireland’s solitary first-half score from Jack Conan came after Luke Jacobson was yellow carded for a dangerous clearout on Josh van der Flier, with the New Zealand flanker avoiding a red card following an off-field review. <\/p>\n
Irish tries from Joe McCarthy and Hugo Keenan either side of the outstanding Damian McKenzie’s score boosted the visitors’ hopes of a losing and try bonus. <\/p>\n
However, Anton Lienert-Brown’s late score wrapped up an emphatic win for the three-time world champions, who stretched their undefeated Eden Park sequence to 53 Tests.<\/p>\n
Having beaten Australia and Japan in their first two games, Ireland will leave Auckland empty-handed after their fourth successive loss to New Zealand and must wait until November to atone for a sloppy first-half performance. <\/p>\n
New Zealand, meanwhile, will approach next month’s four-Test series against South Africa with confidence after taking a maximum 15 points from their three home Nations Championship fixtures.<\/p>\n
“Very proud of the men turning up here tonight and putting in a performance like that,” said New Zealand captain Ardie Savea.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s all been in the mindset. We talked about throwing the first punch, and you know we got a lead in the first five minutes, so that was a start.<\/p>\n
“You’ve got to give credit to the Irish, they’re real quality. But we’re stoked to get the win.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nations Championship round three New Zealand (28) 40 Tries: Tuipulotu, Savea, Jordan, Aumua, McKenzie, Lienert-Brown Cons: Love 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-555923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}