Ireland player ratings vs Russia

1. Dave Kilcoyne - 7

Strong in the scrum, showing great technique to win an eafly penalty at the scrum.

2. Niall Scannell - 6

Successfuly completed 5/6 of his line-outs .

3. John Ryan - 6

Good support for Ruddock's try, shoving the Leinster man over the line.

4. Tadgh Beirne - 7

Got himself involved in the game making 14 carries.

5. Jean Kleyn - 5

Passive.

6. Rhys Ruddock - 8

Took his try well showing great power to get himself over the line. Work rate in attack and defence great.

7. Peter O'Mahony - 6

Got himself a score, penalised one or twice at the breakdown.

8. Jordi Murphy - 6

Setup the games first try with a clever inside pass. Unfortunetly for the Ulster back row he was taken off after 25 mins with what looked like a rib injury.

9. Luke McGrath - 6

Played the full 80, some nice box kicks to control the game. Nice dummy line to setup Ireland's opening try.

10. Jonathan Sexton - 7

Lovely grubber through to setup O'Mahony's try. Controlled the game well with some lovely kicks from hand. Taken off at HT.

11. Keith Earls - 6

Some flashes of speed but wasn't involved heavily

12. Bundee Aki - 5

Not his usual wrecking ball self, didn't look too dangerous in attack. Solid in defence.

13. Garry Ringrose - 6

Took his try well, had a few nice breaks in attack.

14. Andrew Conway - 6

Got the BP for Ireland, was busy on the wing and got the deserved score.

15. Rob Kearney - 7

Got his teams opening score after running in from 40 out. One slip under the high ball but other than that a solid performance.

SUBS

16. Sean Cronin - 5

17. Andrew Porter -  5

18. Tadgh Furlong - 6

19. Iain Henderson - 5

20. CJ Stander - 5

21. Conor Murray - N/A

22. Jack Carty - 5

23. Jordan Larmour - 6

Line out Ireland

won 5

lost 1