"It was amazing and then to back it up a few years later - any team can do a one-off but we wanted to back it up and show that it wasn't a fluke." "You always want to put your name in the history books and that was our chance to do something that no Irish team had done before. It's always very special to be the first team to do something. "It was something that we were desperate for. "It was a little bit of 'monkey off the back' stuff and getting over the hurdle at last was huge," Sexton said of the historic 2016 win. This was the first time they had beaten them at home whilst two years before they had recorded their maiden victory against the All Blacks with a 40-29 triumph at Soldier Field Stadium, home of the Chicago Bears. The 36-year-old Irish playmaker would rather hark back to the last time they played each other at Lansdowne Road in 2018 when the hosts beat the then world champions 16-9.
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