Comment: Ireland find game-breaking X-factor to twist the script

Andy Farrell's side impressed under Friday night lights against the Pumas. 

Ireland's Sam Illo celebrates with friends after the game. Pic: INPHO/Ben Brady

Ireland’s first score against Argentina in Dublin last Friday night took less than half-a-minute from start to finish. The first 22 seconds unfolded like a movie we have all seen before. The closing scenes came with a couple of twists.

Lineouts have been the side’s most profitable source of five-pointers for over a decade now. This one saw Tadhg Beirne rise high and tuck the ball in to the bosom of his forward colleagues for a brief maul that acted as incubator for the move to follow.