Ireland v New Zealand LIVE: Rugby World Cup 2023 latest score and updates

Breathless stuff at the Stade de France. A solitary point separates them.

39 min: Sexton’s attacking gamble pays off! Ireland collect the lineout and create a maul. From there, scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park darts for the line, throwing a dummy pass before finding a gap and diving over the try line.

36 min: Ireland are awarded a penalty in the All Blacks’ half for a deliberate knock-on, and TMO checks whether Aaron Smith was stopping a scoring opportunity… he was, and he’s shown a yellow card! Ten minutes in the sin bin.

Sexton was going to kick for the posts and three points, but now he wants more and he kicks to the corner for a lineout instead… A big moment.

33 min: Sure enough, New Zealand take full advantage with a 50-22 kick which puts them right in position. They work through a few phases under the posts before flinging the ball out to the right touchline where Savea is waiting to run it into the corner.

Mo’unga misses the kick.

32 min: Ardie Savea is penalised for holding on at the breakdown and not releasing the ball. Ireland kick deep and have a lineout in good attacking position, but they can’t win the set-piece – that’s two or three now that Ireland have lost, and it’s a weakness the All Blacks are exploiting.

30 min: A thrilling first half an hour at the Stade de France, and we are still none the wiser as to who will win this quarter-final. How Ireland needed that score.

27 min: A magnificent try by Bundee Aki! Ireland push the All Blacks back towards their try line attacking down the left wing, then switch quickly across to the right where Aki collects a high pass, shifts back inside between a couple of desperate defenders and dives over the line.

25 min: Ireland work through a few slick phases in the New Zealand half before a loose ball lands at the feet of Sexton. He hacks towards the try line and gives chase, but a couple of All Blacks get there before him to touch down behind their own line.

23 min: There’s a break in play as referee Wayne Barnes has his communication set fixed. The Irish fans are meanwhile unhappy with a Kiwi tackle which has just been shown on the big screens, but the referee tells Johnny Sexton it’s been checked by the TMO, and says it wasn’t unsafe.

20 min: Ireland immediately win a penalty in a central position in the New Zealand half, which Johnny Sexton kicks over. That’s more like it from the Irish, who have been outplayed so far. The All Blacks have been utterly relentless, so dogged at the breakdown, and Ireland need to find a way to match them.