New Zealand run in a try on their way to victory over Ireland in Chicago on Saturday. Photograph: Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty Images

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It wasn’t, alas, 2016 all over again, this time New Zealand taking the honours at Soldier Field after, as Gerry Thornley puts it in his match report, Ireland “ran out of punching power and energy” in that final quarter.

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