Wales vs England LIVE: Result and reaction from Six Nations grudge match in Cardiff

This could go either way - Cannone hasn’t changed his line but there does appear to be a slight dip towards Craig Casey. He might argue he was simply bracing for impending contact, but how will the officials view it?

Penalty only. That’s a slight surprise, actually - if the action was deemed illegal, there looked to be contact to the head or neck area.

Anyway, Ireland punt to ten metres out.

A helter-skelter half-hour continues. Italy turn the ball over twice in quick succession, Craig Casey snatching the ball out of the side of a ruck after it had been deemed out by the referee - and, ooh, that looks slightly nasty from Niccolo Cannone, directing a shoulder towards the dimunitive scrum-half’s head after he’d kicked ahead.

The TMO will have a look...

Finlay Bealham seems perplexed by Mike Adamson’s decision, but the Irish tighthead does seem to put too much weight on too soon. He’s pinged - Italy kick up again into good attacking position.

Italy’s lineout ball 35 metres out from their own line, then, and Irish disrupting hands get to it - but only succeed in knocking it on.

Out the back, out the back but few supporting players, and Italy are snuffed out on first phase. Caelan Doris pounces on a loose ball, and James Lowe gets a chance to make amends - theat’s one heck of a long punt from the wing, releasing all of the frustration of that error.

At some point this game will settle down, I’m sure, but not quite yet - James Lowe picks a spot in the tenth row far up the left touchline as Craig Casey fizzes a pass back to him, but Lowe takes his eye off the ball and shells the pass. Italy scrum five out from the Irish line with a chance to strike back.

To breaks in the lead up to tries and now Bundee Aki has a score of his own!

For as good as the Italian attack has been so far, their defensive structures are really struggling to combat Ireland’s fluency. Ross Byrne puts Josh van der Flier in to a sliver of space and the flanker survives contact to combine with James Lowe.

Lowe pops a pass back inside to Aki, who rides a tackler to the line, securely grounding with one hand in a manner that Lowe did not early.

Italy really do fancy this. Another foray from their own 22 shows space apparent, but Irish hands wrap around a loose offload...

A fluent swing of the left boot from the Italy fly-half, tucking the kick from left of centre just inside the right-hand post.

Every time Italy go through the hands they look a threat, with Ireland struggling to handle their strike runners.

To illustrate the point, Tommaso Menoncello absolutely scorches a trail around Ross Byrne, chipping over Mack Hansen as he reaches full flow. Craig Casey gets back to the bouncing ball first - but only thanks to a nudge from Hansen on Menoncello. The Ireland wing is penalised.

Points or corner? Michele Lamaro gestures towards the uprights...