{"id":277124,"date":"2025-07-20T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277124\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:35:18","slug":"italy-rally-past-wales-as-irish-edge-out-a-dogged-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277124\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy rally past Wales as Irish edge out a dogged Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROUND-UP <\/p>\n<p>Vital score: Italy\u2019s Federico Zanandrea touches down <\/p>\n<p>ITALY, who were facing Wales for the third time this season, recorded their best ever placing at the tournament as they ran out 31-23 winners, to gain seventh place.<br \/>Wales had a decent start as Sion Davies scored their first try but Italy played their way into the match as Wales\u2019 discipline began to cost them.<br \/>Franceso Braga was impeccable off the boot and Edoardo Todaro impressed at full-back. Nelson Casartelli was at his destructive best and was rewarded with a brace of tries for his efforts. The match &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROUND-UP Vital score: Italy\u2019s Federico Zanandrea touches down ITALY, who were facing Wales for the third time this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,678,2199,75939,11653,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-277124","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-ireland","11":"tag-italy","12":"tag-pau","13":"tag-premium","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114885120737972541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277124","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=277124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}