Andy Farrell: We became a little bit too desperate

Andy Farrell felt Ireland "suppressed" themselves during a 23-13 loss to New Zealand, which ended a 19-game home winning run.

Ireland led twice during the game but couldn't build any momentum, paying for numerous handling errors and the concession of 13 penalties to five from the All Blacks.

Off the tee, man of the match Damian McKenzie was superb and the out-half kicked six penalties and Will Jordan scored his usual try.

"I'm disappointed. It's easily summed up with the mood of the dressing room, really, it's pretty sombre," head coach Farrell told reporters after the game.

"The lads are gutted, we're all gutted together. I thought we prepped well, trained well, I thought we were excited about the game and we were. We didn't manage to put our game out on the field.

"Obviously, the opposition have a big say in that, but I thought we compounded too many errors and almost suppressed ourselves a little bit at times.

"The accuracy wasn't what was needed to win a big Test match like that.

"It's a funny old feeling because we don't tend to have it too much in that dressing room. That's life, congratulations to New Zealand."

On the high penalty count, Farrell suggested his wasn’t in full agreement with referee Nic Berry but admitted his own side were too ill-disciplined.

"We'll get a few answers in regards to clarification of a few of them," he said.

"But it doesn't matter whether it was wrong or right. We still shouldn't have suppressed ourselves.

"It's not right to try and be desperate chasing your tail when you've made an error, whether it be a penalty or a drop ball, and then compound that error with another error and all of a sudden field position has completely gone.

"Points come on the back of that and we did that a number of times.