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Published 17:02 5 Feb 2018 GMT
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Against France, he was having a rough time of it. The French were slowing the ball down with impunity and there was little referee Nigel Owens was doing about it.
O'Mahony was not the only player to find himself slowed down at the breakdown and unable to speed up ball for Conor Murray to distribute. His own carries - 6 of them in the first 77 minutes - earned his team the sum total of a single yard gained. He was either scrapping for parity or getting driven back.
He featured in a couple of passing chains and although he knocked the ball forward at one stage, in the second half, the ball was zinged at his head by an over-eager Sexton. Not much was going O'Mahony's way in the drizzle of Paris but he was having another top game at the lineout. He claimed clean ball on three occasions and was a nuisance on several of Guilhelm Guirado's throws.
When France hit the front, late on, it looked to be a game that had gotten away from the Munster captain. He was not alone in having a quiet game, to that point, but we had hoped for more from him.
And then Iain Henderson claimed Sexton's restart, on 77:30, and Ireland kicked into gear. O'Mahony was one of the driving forces in those 41 phases [here he is backing up Sexton after a line break, early on in the comeback].
On Sunday, we noted how well he carried in that late assault. Looking back on the match footage again and the activity levels of O'Mahony - after slogging himself around a rain-sodden pitch for 77 minutes beforehand - are quite simply astounding. Here are his stats for that final 5-minute barrage:
PETER O'MAHONY 'Superhuman level'
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