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Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n That feeling was all the more compelling when they tore into the second half and actually made it tell. Ewan Ashman finished off a lineout and drive five minutes in, with New Zealand back to a full complement. Ardie Savea was sent to the bin then, and Scotland struck again. Another lineout, a big carry from Tuipulotu, another from Dempsey, and Kinghorn put Kyle Steyn away. Finn Russell\u2019s penalty on the hour levelled, but by then Graham had had another chance, just failing to ground the ball in the corner before it slipped from his grasp.<\/p>\n Quick GuideIreland 41-10 JapanShow Ireland bounced back from defeat by New Zealand by beginning their home autumn internationals with a 41-10 win over Japan in Dublin. After last weekend\u2019s deflating 26-13 loss to the All Blacks in Chicago, tries from Jack Crowley and Nick Timoney (pictured) helped Andy Farrell\u2019s much-changed side overcome a slow start at the Aviva Stadium.<\/p>\n Eddie Jones’ Brave Blossoms trailed only 17-10 at half-time after Kenji Sato’s score and five points from the boot of Lee Seung-sin.\u00a0But the hosts, who face upcoming appointments against Australia and world champions South Africa, improved significantly in the second period.. But the hosts, who face upcoming appointments against Australia and the world champions, South Africa, improved significantly in the second period.\u00a0Andrew Porter crossed to increase Ireland\u2019s lead before wing Tommy O\u2019Brien sealed victory after Gus McCarthy and Paddy McCarthy each came off the bench to touch down.\u00a0Crowley also kicked seven points, with replacement fly-half Sam Prendergast slotting two conversions.<\/p>\n Asked if he got the response he wanted to the deflating defeat to the All Blacks, Andy Farrell, who made eight alterations to his starting XV, replied: \u201cIn short, no. Certainly not in the first half. But the response that we wanted from half-time onwards was pleasing enough because when you make a good few errors within your game it can suppress you a little bit.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were feeling sorry for ourselves a little bit and the mood wasn\u2019t how it should be. But how we got over ourselves and got some tempo back into the game in the second half is credit to the lads.”<\/p>\n \u00a0Farrell has concerns over full-back Jamie Osborne, who was forced off injured in the 65th minute.\u00a0\u201cIt doesn\u2019t look good, poor lad \u2013 you could see by the way he was holding his arm,\u201d said Farrell.\u00a0\u201cI thought he might have broken something. But it\u2019s the shoulder, we think, that was out of place and back in place now. But to know that for sure we\u2019ll have to get a look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n Eddie Jones felt his side missed an opportunity to record a famous victory.\u00a0\u201cWe put ourselves in a position to win the game in the first half, probably went into half-time with a little bit of momentum, Ireland had [Jacob] Stockdale in the bin,\u201d said the Australian.\u00a0\u201cBut we didn\u2019t take advantage of the sin-bin and then \u2013 whether we got disappointed \u2013 we just faded badly in the last 30 minutes.\u00a0PA Media<\/p>\n Photograph: Niall Carson\/PA<\/p>\n Thank you for your feedback.<\/p>\n That was Scotland\u2019s time, Ben White and others also agonisingly close in wave after wave of attack. Then, when Sititi became the latest to see yellow a minute later for a deliberate knock-on, the momentum seemed irreversible. Alas, as per, that was just about when New Zealand focused that laser of theirs.<\/p>\n Close, Scotland. 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