"Obviously we've been building pretty well, apart from that poor 60 minutes against Japan everything else has pretty much gone to plan," Sexton insisted. But we kind of knew how good a team Japan were. "We know they're the best team in the world and we've got to play our best to get there," Sexton added. "But this is a quarter-final of a World Cup and things are different. We've got to concentrate on getting the best version of the Irish team out there and we'll see if that's good enough."

Source: Irish Independent October 14, 2019 06:11 UTC