Mark Aston's Ireland were unchanged from the side which beat Italy, against the odds, last week as they came up against a Papua New Guinea side at a partisan Port Moresby. PNG tinkered with their own line-up but the lack of changes illustrated the importance that both coaches gave to the game.

The Kumuls were strong favourites with the bookies whose physicality was expected to be too much for a brave Ireland side.

The atmosphere at kick off was electric, an eighteenth man for the Papua New Guinea side.

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Mark Aston's Ireland were unchanged from the side which beat Italy, against the odds, last week as they came up against a Papua New Guinea side at a partisan Port Moresby. PNG tinkered with their own line-up but the lack of changes illustrated the importance that both coaches gave to the game.

The Kumuls were strong favourites with the bookies whose physicality was expected to be too much for a brave Ireland side.

The atmosphere at kick off was electric, an eighteenth man for the Papua New Guinea side.

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