Ireland coach Andy Farrell bemoaned an absence of accuracy and too many errors after his facet had been deservedly overwhelmed at house for the primary time in 20 matches with a 23-13 loss to New Zealand on Friday.
After the All Blacks produced a efficiency for the ages to narrowly knock Ireland out of the World Cup a yr in the past, they simply wanted the superior self-discipline and cohesion in a far more tepid affair on the Aviva Stadium.
“It’s a funny old feeling because we don’t tend to have it too much in that dressing room,” Farrell instructed a information convention, describing the environment as sombre after Ireland’s first loss at house since 2021 and heaviest defeat in Dublin since 2019.
“I thought we prepped well but we didn’t manage to put our game out on the field. There were too many errors and the energy and the accuracy wasn’t what was needed to win a test match like that.”
Farrell, overseeing his final collection earlier than stepping away briefly subsequent yr to guide the British & Irish Lions, mentioned his facet had been significantly responsible of compounding their issues by piling error onto error, leading to 13 penalty concessions.
“Points come on the back of that. We did that a number of times. We need to fix up our mentality as far as that’s concerned. We became a little bit too desperate,” he mentioned.
“We move on, we have to. We have to find the solutions as soon as we possibly can because we have a hungry side in Argentina who have played some really good rugby at this period in time.”
Ireland will subsequent Friday face an Argentina facet coming off the again of a stable Rugby Championship earlier than closing their November collection in opposition to Fiji and Australia.
