{"id":239597,"date":"2025-07-05T08:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T08:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239597\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T08:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T08:07:14","slug":"japan-24-19-wales-reaction-and-analysis-as-wales-losing-streak-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239597\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan 24-19 Wales: Reaction and analysis as Wales&#8217; losing streak continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for joining uspublished at 08:27 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>08:27 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Japan 24-19 Wales<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Well for an hour it looked like Wales&#8217; losing streak was going to come to an end, but Eddie Jones and Japan had different ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From 19-7 up in the first half, Wales failed to score another point, and a late surge in tempo and accuracy from Japan was more than Matt Sherratt&#8217;s side could handle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blame the ill-discipline, the conditions or the confidence, ultimately it was not good enough for Wales and it&#8217;s now an 18th consecutive Test defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be another chance to end that run next weekend, but first they face the tough task of picking themselves up from this defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thank you for getting up bright and early to join us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Remember you can follow the British and Irish Lions&#8217; game against Waratahs here on the BBC Sport website later this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But from us, until next weekend! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Japan in a huddle on the pitch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/d0a2ca02-b84f-4f37-bcc6-121fdff5afaf.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thank you for joining uspublished at 08:27 British Summer Time 08:27 BST FT: Japan 24-19 Wales Well for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-239597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}