Starters against All Blacks may get chance to make amends in Argentina clash

Ireland faltered severely in key areas during the defeat to New Zealand. 

CHANCE FOR REDEMPTION: Ireland face Argentina at the Aviva Stadium on Friday night. Picture: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Andy Farrell’s response to last Friday’s 10-point defeat at home to the All Blacks will be revealed in selection terms on Wednesday with his matchday squad to face Argentina at Aviva Stadium this Friday night.

The head coach’s response to a seven-point loss in the first Test against South Africa last July was to drop captain Peter O’Mahony and Bundee Aki, two of his most established frontliners, for the series decider seven days later. Yet in the wake of the previous March’s narrow late defeat to England at Twickenham, Farrell named an unchanged XV for the following week’s Six Nations final round at home to Scotland.