Now sitting higher than Wales in the world Rugby rankings, the 11th Rangby Georgia takes in Ireland third in Tbilis on Saturday.

News match and current form

GEORGIA He won their 17th European Championship title in Europe this century in March and came to the game after winning their six games from late November 2024 onwards. But they will be big underwater when they wait for Ireland for the first time this weekend as those wins have been against the level of Tier-Spain (X2), Romania, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Tonga.

With their previous missing matches against Italy, XV and the Second Australia of New Zealand, it seems to be a harsh test for Richard Cockerill’s team.

Ireland It will take on the field for the first time since it failed to hold the six nations championship in the spring and end up out of the first two for the first time since 2021. Ireland was trained by Simon Easterby during SNC 2025 and with Andy Farrell leading the Lions to Australia, will be Paul O’Connell who sets up as a temporary trainer and trainer Portugal.

Given that 16 players are far in the Lion’s tour, O’Connell has given debuts to Tommy O’Brien on the second wing and row Darragh Murray. There are also four further players not caught on the bench and Craig Casey will catch the team in half the scrum.

Head -to -head story

This is the sixth H2H between the parties and Ireland won the previous five meetings in the Rugby World Cup qualifications in 1998 and 2002, in RWC 2007, in the 2014 Guinness Series and a November 2020 Nation Cup device.

Statistics and hot strips

Since the beating of Italy and Wales in 2022, George has lost all five of their matches against Rugby Level 1 nations.

George scored between 40 and 110 points in their five games in 2025.

Ireland accepted at least 13 points in each of their last 13 matches (W9, L4).

Ireland failed to score more than 28 points in 11 of their last 13 games.

Key players to see and lose players

COMPETITION Vano karkadze He scored a Hat-trick rehearsal in the last match of George when they held the Rugby Europe International Championship with a 46-28 victory over Spain. Sam Prendergast It was chosen before Jack Crowley in half of the flight to visitors and he kicked between 12 and 17 points in each of his last three appearances in Ireland.

There are no obvious shortages for Georgia while Ireland is not only without their lion players, but also Captain Caelan Doris and Robbie Henshaw centers who are both injured.

Betting analysis

Ireland won all three remote matches during the SNC 2025 but with the limits of only five, nine and 14 points. Therefore, with the players of the missing lion, the support Georgia to cover their handicap of +14.5 It seems an attractive selection.