{"id":259213,"date":"2025-07-12T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259213\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:03:12","slug":"wales-u20s-make-six-changes-for-england-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259213\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales U20s make six changes for England meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Whiffin has made six changes to his Wales Under-20s side for their fifth-place semi-final contest with England at the World Rugby U20 Championship on Monday (14:30 BST).<\/p>\n<p>Wales finished third out of the four teams in Pool B having lost to Argentina and France prior to beating Spain last time out to ensure they will finish between fifth and eighth at the tournament in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Jack Woods returns at full-back as Osian Roberts and Steffan Emanuel form the centre partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Tighthead prop Sam Scott starts for Wales at the Stadio Luigi Zaffanella, Viadana as Kenzie Jenkins comes into the second row.<\/p>\n<p>The other change sees Dan Gemine start at blindside flanker in the absence of Gloucester&#8217;s Deian Gwynn who is unavailable due to HIA protocols.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s young guns have won their previous four matches against Wales in the World Rugby U20 Championship, although Whiffin&#8217;s side stunned England in the final round of this year&#8217;s Six Nations &#8211; winning 23-13 at Cardiff Arms Park.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got some very good things right in that game (Six Nations), but this game will be very different,&#8221; said Whiffin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we can certainly draw on the fact we caused them a lot of trouble in Cardiff when they were under pressure where we managed to stay on top of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is opportunity there but let&#8217;s not forget they are a very good team; they&#8217;ll be disappointed they didn&#8217;t make the top four themselves so I&#8217;m sure they will be fully loaded and looking to get one over us but it&#8217;s a great challenge for us and one to get the boys perfectly up for.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are a good team, and the mind sharpens the focus for the boys knowing we have got to be at our best to get the result we want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wales U20s:<\/strong> Jack Woods; Elijah Evans, Osian Roberts, Steffan Emanuel, Aidan Boshoff; Harri Wilde, Sion Davies; Ioan Emanuel, Evan Wood, Sam Scott, Kenzie Jenkins, Nick Thomas, Dan Gemine, Caio James, Harry Beddall (capt).<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Jake Bowen, Owain James, Jac Pritchard, Tom Cottle, Ryan Jones, Ellis Lewis, Harri Ford, Tom Bowen.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752332592_1_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Whiffin has made six changes to his Wales Under-20s side for their fifth-place semi-final contest with England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,99453,393,4884,89516,99451,99452,99448,99450,99449,16,15,1764,87493],"class_list":{"0":"post-259213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cardiff-arms-park","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-huw-evans-picture-agency","13":"tag-jack-woods","14":"tag-kenzie-jenkins","15":"tag-osian-roberts","16":"tag-richard-whiffin","17":"tag-steffan-emanuel","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales","21":"tag-world-rugby-u20-championship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114840876136898958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259213","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=259213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}