{"id":368403,"date":"2025-08-23T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368403\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:40:08","slug":"2025-world-cup-scotland-v-wales-scotland-player-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368403\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 World Cup: Scotland v Wales: Scotland player ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>While it took her a couple of kicks to get into her rhythm from the tee, her orchestration of the attack, organisation, and defensive contribution helped to sustain Scotland\u2019s attacking rhythm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In her World Cup debut, she showed poise, sharp service from the breakdown, and topped it off with a try from patient build-up \u2013 a confident and effective performance<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Carried well towards the end when Scotland just needed to keep possession and control. Justified her selection with a strong showing against starting veteran Donna Rose and much-vaunted sub Sisilia Tuipulotu.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The comeback kid from that injury in Scotland\u2019s last pre-tournament hit-out confirmed her importance to the team with a typically busy all-round performance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Strong foundation up front: securing scrummaging and breakdown presence, enabling Scotland to maintain dominance and tempo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Strong line-outs, mauls, and defensive pressure were key to Scotland\u2019s forward platform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Along with Wassell, dominated the physical exchanges in the tight five.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On her 50th cap as captain, she marshalled the defensive structure and led from the front. Stability, leadership and smart decision-making were apparent. Her leadership both verbally and in structure was pivotal in setting the tone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>High work rate around the ruck, supporting both defence and applying turnover pressure; complemented the back-row synergy well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Made her World Cup debut in style \u2013 used her signature power and direct running to breach the Welsh defence. Scored Scotland\u2019s bonus point try.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>(Ellis Martin, Molly Wright, Lisa Cockburn, Jade Konkel, Eva Donaldson, Alex Stewart, Caity Mattinson and Beth Blacklock)<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Provided fresh legs and some massive carries. Mattinson continued the cool headedness of Brebner-Holden at the start of the game with. Stewart provided some great support runs, usually being the first person to the ruck.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While it took her a couple of kicks to get into her rhythm from the tee, her orchestration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,85185,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-368403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-divi","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115080726055333407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368403","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=368403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}