Ryan Bailey reports from the Aviva Stadium
AN EVENING ON which Joey Carbery provided further evidence of his prodigious talent ended with the Ireland out-half leaving the field in serious discomfort and nursing what Joe Schmidt fears is a broken arm.
The 22-year-old, superb in attack during Ireland’s narrow victory over Fiji, shipped one big hit too many and limped out of an uber-physical contest with a suspected fracture to his left arm.
“I think he has fractured his left forearm,” the head coach said afterwards.
“It’s not undisplaced as far as I know, and we’ll update it on Monday. I can’t absolutely confirm it but that appears to be the case. That will mean he won’t take any further part in the series for us.
“He’s brave to a fault.”
Carbery, in his first appearance of the season at 10, delivered an impressive display in the pivot position, creating Ireland’s first try with a moment of pure genius as he stepped inside to unlock to Fiji defence and then throw a perfect pass off his wrong side to send Darren Sweetnam over in the corner.
Schmidt reported an otherwise clean bill of health, adding that a couple of players were nursing bumps and bruises after an attritional game.
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