Italy captain Michele Lamaro was frustrated by their defeat to Ireland but insists his players gave their all.
“We’ve been talking about lots of same things,” Lamaro said. “We’ve been giving everything we’ve got, and that is all you can ask of the boys. We still have to work on lots of details, margins, the way we keep pressure on them.
“I think we conceded 20 points in the first 30 minutes, and we have to invert that trend… but I can’t ask for something else from the boys. We don’t go out there and think of just being in the game. We think of winning. What we care about is our performance ...