Six Nations, Round Two - Scotland 13-22 Ireland, Italy 15-26 Wales, England 44-8 France

In the second week of fixtures, Ireland travelled to Scotland, Italy hosted Wales and England played France.

Scotland 13-22 Ireland
After their opening day defeat, Ireland recovered to beat Scotland at Murrayfield.
The hosts lead through a Greig Laidlaw penalty, but the Grand Slam champions responded with tries from Conor Murray and Jacob Stockdale.
Sam Johnson's try narrowed the gap to two points at half time.
But Keith Earls scored after the hosts' defence was exploited just short of the hour to inspire the Irish to victory.

Italy 15-26 Wales
Wales much changed such equalled their record of 11 successive Test wins, in unconvincing style against Italy in Rome.

Photo from BBC Sport

The team with 10 changes from the victory over France won thanks to tries from Adams and Watkin and 14 points from Dan Biggar.
Italy managed tries from Braam Steyn and Edoardo Padovani.
Beating England will break Warren Gatland's side's record set 109 years ago.
Centre Jonathan Davies captained Wales for the first time while flankers Young and Aaron Wainwright, wing Jonah Holmes and scrum-half Aled Davies all made their first Six Nations starts.
Josh Navidi was named man of the match after moving to number eight with Ross Moriarty dropping to the bench, alongside usual captain Alun Wyn Jones.
Italy have now lost a record 19 matches in this tournament with their last victory coming against Scotland in February 2015.

England 44-8 France
England blew France away with a first-half hat-trick of tries from Jonny May to continue their fabulous start to the tournament.
May went over three times in the left-hand corner in the first 30 minutes as England's forwards steamrollered France and their backs' kicking game cut them apart.
Eddie Jones' men added two more in the second half, one through the relentless Owen Farrell and the other a penalty try after Chris Ashton had been brought down without the ball.
France had no answer to England's physicality, their back three turned inside out by the constant kicks rained in behind them, and their appalling run at Twickenham goes on.
England have now won 10 of their last 13 Six Nations matches against France.

FIXTURES & RESULTS
Round One
1 February
France 19-24 Wales, Paris
2 February
Scotland 33-20 Italy, Edinburgh
Ireland 20-32 England, Dublin

Round Two
9 February
Scotland 13-22 Ireland, Edinburgh
Italy 15-26 Wales, Rome
10 February
England 44-8 France, London

Round Three
23 February
France v Scotland, Paris
Wales v England, Cardiff
24 February
Italy v Ireland, Rome

Round Four
9 March
Scotland v Wales, Edinburgh
England v Italy, London
10 March
Ireland v France, Dublin

Round Five
16 March
Italy v France, Rome
Wales v Ireland, Cardiff
England v Scotland, London

Women's Six Nations
Italy 3-3 Wales
HT 0-3
Penalties: Sillari/Wilkins

Scotland 5-22 Ireland
HT 5-10
Tries: Smith/McDermott, Lyons, Miller, Caplice
Conversions: /Fowley

England 41-26 France
HT 24-0
Tries: Breach (2), Cleall (2), Smith, Botterman, O'Donnell/N'Diaye, Bourdon (2), Menager
Conversions: McLean (3)/Bourdon (3)

FIXTURES & RESULTS
Round One
1 February
Ireland 7-51 England, Dublin
Scotland 7-28 Italy, Glasgow
2 February
France 52-3 Wales, Montpellier

Round Two
8 February
Scotland 5-22 Ireland, Glasgow
9 February
Italy 3-3 Wales, Lecce
10 February
England 41-26 France, Doncaster

Round Three
23 February
Italy v Ireland, Parma
France v Scotland, Lille
24 February
Wales v England, Cardiff

Round Four
8 March
Scotland v Wales, Glasgow
9 March
England v Italy, Exeter
Ireland v France, Dublin

Round Five
16 March
England v Scotland, London
17 March
Wales v Ireland, Cardiff

Italy v France, Padova

Six Nations Round One Results and Report

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