{"id":240395,"date":"2025-07-05T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/240395\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:24:13","slug":"wales-winless-run-rolls-on-but-scotland-triumph-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/240395\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; winless run rolls on but Scotland triumph in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wales&#8217; long winless run stretched on after Japan scored late on to claim a 24-19 victory in\u00a0Kitakyushu.<\/p>\n<p>It looked as though Wales might claim their first Test victory since 2023\u00a0when they led 19-7 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in sweltering conditions at\u00a0Mikuni World Stadium, Japan hit back in the second half, with their winning try coming in the 70th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Wales have now lost their last 18 non-exhibition matches, and have slipped down to an all-time low of 14th in the world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Japan, meanwhile, recorded just their second victory over Wales.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"cy\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0| 24-19<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelshRugby?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WelshRugby<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JPNvWAL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#JPNvWAL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c2Tnn6hhIJ\">pic.twitter.com\/c2Tnn6hhIJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Welsh Rugby Union\u00a0 (@WelshRugbyUnion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WelshRugbyUnion\/status\/1941393870958555393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was better luck for Scotland, as they kicked off their tour of New Zealand with a 29-26 win in a non-capped international\u00a0against the Maori All Blacks.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams scored four tries each in\u00a0Whangarei, where Adam Hastings&#8217; penalty ultimately proved decisive.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland, who are touring New Zealand for the first time in 25 years, will next take on Fiji and Samoa.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; long winless run stretched on after Japan scored late on to claim a 24-19 victory in\u00a0Kitakyushu. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,10022,93,58033,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-240395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-social","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sporty","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114801322433495371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240395","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=240395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}