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Ireland will anxiously await an update on the fitness of Robbie Henshaw after the centre suffered a suspected dislocated shoulder in the Six Nations win over Italy.
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Henshaw was hurt in the act of scoring his second try as Ireland ran out 56-19 winners in Dublin to maintain their perfect start to the tournament.
The Leinster back left the field with his injured right arm in a sling, but head coach Joe Schmidt is holding on to hope Henshaw may have avoided serious injury.
“We’ll know post a scan tomorrow [Sunday],” said Schmidt in a news conference. “We’ve got a scan booked for him.
“He looked in a fair bit of discomfort coming off. He’s a lot more comfortable now, which is promising, but what’s not promising is the degree of discomfort he was in.
“We’ll have an update hopefully later once he’s had that scan.”
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— Irish Rugby (@IrishRugby) February 10, 2018
Ireland also saw Tadhg Furlong limp off in the first half of Saturday’s game, although the prop’s injury does not appear to be too severe.
“He felt a tightening on deceleration,” explained Schmidt. “For a tighthead prop, he probably just moves a little more quickly than he should.
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“We will check him out tomorrow, that will give us a better picture, but we’d be hopeful that he would still be okay in two weeks’ time.”
Reflecting on his team’s display, Schmidt added: “I felt we played with some good width and most of it was accurate. We turned the ball over a lot more than we would have planned to, but I felt we scored some really good tries in that first 40 minutes.”
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