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21st March 2021
03:56pm GMT

'A superb finish, leaving May with twisted blood.'Cian Healy scored well across most boards but one outlet only gave him 6/10 despite his 60 minutes of hard graft after replacing Kilcoyne. The scores for Conor Murray are all over the map. While The Guardian said the Munster man was 'assured at scrum-half and brought great variety' and awarded him 9/10, The Independent argued that he 'wasn’t up to his usual standards' and only saw fit to give him 6/10. On the latest episode of House of Rugby Ireland [LISTEN from 21:00 below], Ian Madigan and Fergus McFadden backed Murray to make a push for his third Lions tour if he can keep logging good performances for Munster.
The ratings, meanwhile, for England's beaten stars were unforgiving.
The toughest ratings were meted out by The Daily Mail, with five of their starting XV getting 4/10 marks. They included Billy Vunipola, Anthony Watson, Elliot Daly, Billy Vunipola and George Ford.
Their writer, Adam Hathaway, noted now Ford was 'outshone by Johnny Sexton' while Mako Vunipola was 'hooked off at half-time' after conceding three scrum penalties and getting on the wrong side of French referee Mathieu Raynal.
The Guardian gave out four 4/10 marks to England's starting XV, including one for captain Owen Farrell, while also scoring Mako Vunipola 3/10.
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