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Andy Farrell says Ireland\u2019s pulsating win over South Africa is no more than \u201ca good start to our season\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n The Irish head coach played down the idea that the 19-16 win will have any bearing when the sides meet again at next year\u2019s World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Farrell\u2019s team remain top of the world rankings with their victory over the Springboks, backing up their recent series win in New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a start to our season and we move on to next week,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s so many different permutations that can happen along the way and I\u2019ve no doubt that South Africa are going to get better leading into the World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re pretty good at getting their timing right. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s nice to play them, it\u2019s certainly nice to play them after five years to see how we\u2019re handling the different types of pressure that they throw at us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Ireland were forced to overcome three first-half injuries, with Farrell hopeful that knocks picked up by Stuart McCloskey and Tadhg Furlong are not as serious as first feared.<\/span><\/p>\n The teams went into half-time level before Ireland scored two tries, by Josh van der Flier and Mack Hansen, in a blistering start to the second half that saw them take control of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n They host Fiji next week before concluding their autumn series against Australia, after which attentions will turn to the Six Nations before the World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a good start to the year, that\u2019s it really,\u201d reflected captain Johnny Sexton.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe won a Triple Crown last year but we want to do something in the Six Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe talk about the World Cup but we\u2019re a good bit away, we need to stay present and try to keep winning.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t get many chances in an Irish jersey and you want to win when you\u2019re in one so we need to keep building.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll learn a lot for the World Cup and I\u2019m sure they will as well because they stopped us at times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ireland have won seven of their nine matches in 2022 Andy Farrell says Ireland\u2019s pulsating win over South Africa is no more than \u201ca good start to our season\u201d. The Irish head coach played down the idea that the 19-16 win will have any bearing when the sides meet again at next year\u2019s World Cup. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1245215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}