'Coaches will be on our backs big time' - Ireland's Joe McCarthy

Joe McCarthy says the win over Argentina won't excuse Ireland’s players from the coaches’ ire when they sit down to review the game this week.

The Pumas came within a score of recording their first ever win in Dublin, going down 22-19 in a thrilling, if error-filled, 80 minutes at Aviva Stadium.

The hosts, back-to-back Six Nations champions, failed to score for 50 minutes after McCarthy registered Ireland’s third try and needed a disciplined defensive set, during which Argentina made 80 yards, to see out the game.

It was a discipline that had largely deserted Ireland for the last three quarters.

Having conceded 13 penalties in their opening Autumn Nations Series loss to New Zealand, they equalled that tally on Friday, and lost Finlay Bealham and McCarthy to yellow cards.

Asked about cleaning up that area, McCarthy, player of the match, said: "That’s probably the hard bit. We talk a lot about it.

"Most players actually know how to do it, what the solution is but it’s about doing it under pressure.

"I think we were a bit better than we were last week, we will build again.

"We will try as hard as we can. We will review it proper hard, the coaches will be on our backs big time.

"We will have a big chat about it, sit down and try an improve next week, then we have two more games to try and get it right."

McCarthy’s sin-binning, from the 50th to 60 minutes, came after a number of Ireland penalty concessions, and even if his offside was innocuous enough, the team had been on a warning from referee Paul Williams.

The Leinster lock, who made 11 carries and 14 tackles, said: "You’re a bit disappointed that you let the team down a small bit, but Aled [Walters] our new S&C [strength and conditioning coach] was just telling me, 'make sure you