- Scotland 24-27 Ireland
- Fly-half’s late penalty secures victory for Irish
All too familiar. Scotland, as ever, dangerous when expectation is low, are frustrated time and again when it creeps up high. So it has proved once more. Ireland were too powerful, too efficient. Even if the Scots showed nerve and skill to recover from a 14-point deficit to level with five minutes remaining, a late Johnny Sexton penalty inflicted a second consecutive home defeat. For all the excitement of Twickenham in round one, there Scotland still reside, in that little niche of theirs just above Italy.
No championship for them then, game in hand or not. Nor for Ireland, but the visitors have responded to the disappointment of two defeats from two to register a second win from two. What is more, they move into second place, albeit eight points behind Wales. They return home now to prepare to host England in their final game.
