{"id":251311,"date":"2025-07-09T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251311\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:25:11","slug":"wales-fight-back-to-beat-spain-at-u20-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251311\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales fight back to beat Spain at U20 World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales Under-20s secured a 35-25 bonus-point win over Spain in their final Pool B fixture at the World Rugby U20 Championship in Verona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following defeats by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cvg97drn9d1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Argentina<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c3en7py15w2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France,<\/a> Wales were unable to progress to the top tier play-offs in the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cly8x14670wo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Richard Whiffin made 10 changes<\/a> for the game against Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An early penalty try and Evan Wood&#8217;s touchdown had put Wales in control before tries from Oriol Marsinyac and Liam McNamee for Spain, who led 18-14 at the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But a strong second-half showing saw Wales earn their first victory at the tournament, with tries from Caio James, Sion Davies and Jack Woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales Under-20s secured a 35-25 bonus-point win over Spain in their final Pool B fixture at the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-251311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114824447822886998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251311","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=251311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}