Scrum-half Emily Lane says Ireland are “raring to go” and “looking forward to the challenge” of facing defending champions New Zealand in Sunday’s World Cup Pool C decider in Brighton.<\/p>\n
Both sides have already reached the quarter-finals after winning their opening two matches with bonus points, but the winner of Sunday’s game will top the group.<\/p>\n
“It’s great that we have qualified but we all want to go out this weekend and perform, put our hand up and try to top the pool,” said Lane.<\/p>\n
“We just want to show the world that we’re capable of competing with the top-class teams in the world like New Zealand, who have won the World Cup six times. <\/p>\n
“They are a world-class team and we respect that so we want to bring our best foot forward going into this game.”<\/p>\n
Ireland beat Japan 42-14 in their opening game before defeating Spain 43-27 last weekend, but Lane knows there are some areas of performance to address before facing the might of the Black Ferns.<\/p>\n
“You have to recognise the positives but we still have room for improvement, we want to minimise our penalties, be more physical and stop those tries. <\/p>\n
“As backs we have been working on executing in the green zone, scoring tries, and I think we’ve been doing that. <\/p>\n
“Hopefully we can put into practice what we’ve been trying to fix from those two games.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scrum-half Emily Lane says Ireland are “raring to go” and “looking forward to the challenge” of facing defending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-114279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}