Ireland captain Sexton later received on-field treatment for an apparent leg issue before the scoreboard swung in the All Blacks' favour in an action-packed three minutes. The misfiring champions trailed 16-0 at the interval at the Coventry Building Society Arena but it was one-way traffic afterwards as they picked up five points with a bonus-point 26-16 victory. Sunday afternoon's semi-finals had seen Price overcome Wade in a battle between two players who had not lost a Grand Slam semi-final between them in five attempts, while Wright produced a spellbinding comeback to overcome Michael Smith. New Zealand, who lost influential fly-half Beauden Barrett to injury early on, arrived in the Irish capital in record-breaking form having scored an unprecedented 675 points and 96 tries in winning 12 of 13 fixtures this calendar year.