Steve Hansen praises Ireland efforts after first win against All Blacks
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• All Blacks coach Hansen: ‘Ireland learned how to close it’• Ireland coach Joe Schmidt: ‘There was some great cohesion out there’Steve Hansen’s modus operandi at press conferences is to open with a few sentences to set the tone. He did it here in Chicago to get out first and give credit to the team who had just won for the first time in this fixture after 111 years of trying.“We allowed ourselves to be dominated in the first half and we didn’t control possession and that was down to Ireland,” he said. “To come back to 29-33 in the circumstances, with injuries and everything, was a pretty brav…





