Matt Dawson
England World Cup winner on BBC Radio 5 live

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The pressure is getting to England, they are the mistakes that creep in and now the big, senior players have got to step up and try and negate this crowd and negate the play.

It is a lot tougher than me explaining it, but those players have go to step up and recall their experience, go back to basics.

Ireland with the wind in their sails as Garry Ringrose wriggles free down the blindside and feeds Keith Earls.

England are at sixes and sevens. But Mike Brown downs the flying winger and the ball drifts forward in the collision.

England's Courtney Lawes knocks on with one eye on the clutch of green shirts locked onto his ribs a few metres away.

Fields of Athenry rings around the Aviva.

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Denis Hickie
Former Ireland winger on BBC Radio 5 live

I think Ireland really needed to convert that possession into points.

They looked quite one dimensional going for the close runners, like they have done all championship, but they have a functioning line-out.

He needed all of his six feet and five inches to stretch over, but Iain Henderson's childhood green-eating pays off as scores the game's first try.

The conversion is routine for a kicker of Johnny Sexton's pedigree.

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Ireland are over from the line-out, but Iain Henderson's grounding is going to get the frame-by-frame treatment...

Stroke bet:  it's all even and we're 20 mins into the game. The same amount of time as Wayne Barnes added to the #FRAvWAL, external game  

England with some feisty counter-rucking.

That heist has not come off though.

Billy Vunipola is judged to have come off his feet.

Penalty Ireland. It is kicked to the corner and Rory Best will throw into a line-out five out...

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Ireland are up to within 10 metres off the whitewash.

CJ Stander lowers his horns and charges into contact.

Make that four...

Matt Dawson
England World Cup winner on BBC Radio 5 live

England have got to be really careful with the late hits, the referee is going to have a chat with Maro Itoje.

Referees know they have to watch Johnny Sexton, particularly the quality he has.

I like the fact there is a late shot from Maro Itoje, England are feeling the pressure. You know this is the cauldron Eddie Jones wants them to shine in.

Coming to Dublin and putting late hits on Johnny Sexton is like going to Buckingham Palace and kicking the corgis off the sofa. 

Guaranteed to cause offence.

England lock Maro Itoje's ettiquette and possibly parentage is called into question by the Aviva crowd.

The referee decides Itoje was committed to the tackle and a talking-to is enough punishment.

Ireland kick up into the England 22m. The visitors under pressure.

Reports of Ireland captain Rory Best's replacement have been greatly exaggerated it seems.

The hooker's substitution was only temporary apparently and he is back after a quick assessment to replace Niall Scannell.

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Ireland won 100% of their rucks in the first 15 minutes, 30 from 30, while England are nine from 10.

It's England who have had to make more than double the amount of tackles of their Irish counterparts though - 40 to 18, and they've missed seven of them.

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The camera pans to Ireland defence coach Andy Farrell in the stands. 

Utterly impassive.

England's big, heavy carriers are clanking into life.

James Haskell makes yards. Joe Launchbury doesn't however, knocked back by the fast advance of Ireland's green wall.

The defence was a little too eager out of the blocks however.

Penalty to England and Owen Farrell's first shot at goal is one you would expect him to get...

Matt Dawson
England World Cup winner on BBC Radio 5 live

This is the part of Ireland’s game that gives me nightmares.

They play so much rugby in and around their 22, they put themselves under huge pressure to do something for so little gain.

It's such high risk rugby.

Ireland with a scrum just inside their own half.

And is that the absence of Jamie Heaslip showing?

A mix-up at the back between CJ Stander and Keiran Marmion allows James Haskell to plunder the loose ball.

Elliot Daly pokes a kick down the line and Ireland are pinned back on their own line.

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Ireland are forced into an early change and it is a big one.

Captain Rory Best has copped a head blow and it is bad enough to dispense with the head injury assessment protocol.

He is straight off and on comes Niall Scannell at hooker in his place.