Ireland vs Scotland LIVE: Six Nations 2020 result and updates from today’s clash
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Your support makes all the difference.Ireland take on Scotland at the Aviva Stadium this afternoon as the duo kick off their Six Nations campaign.
Gregor Townsend knows his Scottish side will have to pull out all the stops to defeat and Ireland outift who have won 15 of their past 16 Tests at home and are beginning a new era under head coach Andy Farrell.
Wales have set the early running with fast start against Italy in Cardiff at lunchtime and both of these sides will want to join them in beginning with a win. Follow it live after the conclusion of Wales vs Italy:
Match preview:
When is it?
Wales vs Italy takes place on Saturday 1 February at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.
What time does it start?
The match kicks off at 4:45pm GMT.
TV channel?
The match will be shown live on ITV from 4pm. Highlights will be on ITV at 10:40pm on Sunday.
Viewers can also watch the match online on the ITV Hub from 4pm.
Teams
Ireland: Jordan Larmour; Andrew Conway, Garry Ringrose, Bundee Aki, Jacob Stockdale; Johnny Sexton, Conor Murray; Cian Healy, Rob Herring, Tadhg Furlong; Iain Henderson, James Ryan; CJ Stander, Josh van der Flier, Caelan Doris.
Scotland: Stuart Hogg; Sean Maitland, Huw Jones, Sam Johnson, Blair Kinghorn; Adam Hastings, Ali Price; Rory Sutherland, Frase Brown, Zander Fagerson; Scott Cummings, Jonny Gray; Jamie Ritchie, Hamish Watson, Nick Haining.
62 minutes
A great cheer from the crowd as Rhys Webb makes his return, replacing the impressive Tomos Williams at scrum-half. Leon Brown is brought on as well. Dillon Lewis' afternoon is over.
It appears Nick Tompkins has knocked on into an Italian hand as he tried to gather a loose Josh Adams offload.
He has. NO TRY!
A shame - Wales pounced on the space and executed really well, with Webb finding Tompkins, who straightened up brilliantly to put George North away. But Tompkins' initial involvement was a knock-on before Leigh Halfpenny gathered to spark the whole move, and Wales DO NOT have the bonus point. Yet...
65 minutes
A strange decision from Rhys Webb, trying to buy a penalty by flinging a pass town towards a stricken Italian player in an offside position, with Luke Pearce rightly ruling that that should not warrant a penalty, and thus allowing the scrum-half to completely stall a promising Welsh attack.
Italy attack themselves when they manage to turnover the ball, with Matteo Minozzi given a chink of space but failing to find inside support with two teammates well placed. His chip bounces out of play.
67 minutes
Leigh Halfpenny has looked properly quick this afternoon, able to get to the outside shoulder throughout and again finding unopposed space as Wales shift the ball to the left, bringing Josh Adams back across him on the switch and keeping the move going.
Italy pilfer the ball at the breakdown, however. They've fronted up well in that area since the resumption.
67 minutes
Leigh Halfpenny has looked properly quick this afternoon, able to get to the outside shoulder throughout and again finding unopposed space as Wales shift the ball to the left, bringing Josh Adams back across him on the switch and keeping the move going.
Italy pilfer the ball at the breakdown, however. They've fronted up well in that area since the resumption.
68 minutes
But then they make a complete hash of their attempted set-piece strike move, with Jake Polledri foolishly crashing his big shoulders into Nick Tompkins running a dummy line that precisely no-one bought. There was space behind him, too. Odd.
Wales penalty. Polledri has been disappointingly quiet.
71 minutes
Ryan Elias is off the bench at hooker, and he shows his power in the loose by biffing away a would-be tackler.
But Rhys Webb is corralled by a just about onside Italian as he looks to play away from the ruck set up by Elias' meaty charge, and his questioning look at the referee will not change Luke Pearce's decision of an Italian scrum.
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