{"id":249941,"date":"2025-07-09T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249941\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:33:09","slug":"wales-aim-to-avoid-spain-upset-in-world-rugby-u20-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249941\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales aim to avoid Spain upset in World Rugby U20 Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Richard Whiffin\u2019s side have been hit by comebacks from Argentina and France in the tournament in Italy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  That means their semi-final hopes are gone but they still play for placings and will be keen to avoid the bottom bracket, which features a relegation play-off on final weekend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Hooker Wood starts against the Spanish while Dragons lock Nick Thomas and flanker Harry Beddall join him in the XV.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Back row forward Evan Minto, prop Owain James and fly-half Harri Ford are on the bench for the clash in Verona (kick-off 2.30pm).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Spain were superb against Argentina to give themselves a shot at an upset but were hit by a comeback to lose 33-30.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wales must aim to win with a bonus point and that should be enough to move into the 5th to 8th play-offs rather than 9th to 12th, with the bonus points from England versus Australia game potentially key to that (kick-off 5pm).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Wales Under-20s:\u00a0<\/strong>Lewis Edwards; Elijah Evans, Osian Darwin-Lewis, Elis Price, Aidan Boshoff; Harri Wilde, Ellis Lewis; Ioan Emanuel, Evan Wood, Jac Pritchard, Luke Evans, Nick Thomas, Deian Gwynne, Caio James, Harry Beddall (captain).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Replacements:\u00a0Jake Bowen, Owain James, Sam Scott, Dan Gemine, Evan Minto, Sion Davies, Harri Ford, Jack Woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Whiffin\u2019s side have been hit by comebacks from Argentina and France in the tournament in Italy. That&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-249941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114821649722825241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249941","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=249941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}