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11th October 2023
10:12am BST

15. Hugo Keenan 14. Mack Hansen 13. Garry Ringrose 12. Bundee Aki 11. James Lowe 10. Johnny Sexton (captain) 9. Jamison Gibson-Park 1. Andrew Porter 2. Dan Sheehan 3. Tadhg Furlong 4. Tadhg Beirne 5. Iain Henderson 6. Peter O’Mahony 7. Josh van der Flier 8. Caelan Doris Replacements: Ronan Kelleher, David Kilcoyne, Finlay Bealham, Joe McCarthy, Jack Conan, Conor Murray, Jack Crowley, Jimmy O’Brien.Having set an Irish record for a World Cup winning margin, against Romania, and defeated Tonga 59-16, Farrell's men pipped South Africa 13-8 in a tense classic. They then bounced the Scots 36-14 to top Pool B.
Ireland players celebrate a scrum penalty during a 2023 Rugby World Cup win over South Africa. (Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile)[/caption]
"The form they have right now is top drawer and, as Johnny said before, I'm sure they will be relishing this fixture to try and put a few things right. It's as tough as it gets, two weeks ago it was a tough game [against South Africa] and this one was knock-out rugby. "It gets a whole lot tougher next week against the All Blacks and hopefully they will have to be at their best to beat us as well.""I don't think and neither do the team think we have played our best rugby yet," Andy Farrell added. "We know where we want to go and what we want to achieve. Will we ever go there? I don't know. But it's days like next week that are coming where we need to find out a bit more about ourselves and these lads are more than willing to do that."
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