{"id":295243,"date":"2025-11-19T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295243\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:06:07","slug":"wales-v-new-zealand-captain-dewi-lake-urges-rugby-side-to-emulate-football-heroics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295243\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales v New Zealand: Captain Dewi Lake urges rugby side to emulate football heroics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales have lost their past 33 matches against New Zealand since the previous victory 72 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steve Tandy&#8217;s side are ranked 12th in the world and the All Blacks 10 places higher, so ending that losing streak is very improbable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think Wales have always been massive underdogs in any kind of international Test match against a team like New Zealand,&#8221; said Lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s always been loved by us being underdogs, kind of not being given a chance, I suppose. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s about going out there and doing everything we can to win, because ultimately that is what we want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c62epll0nxlo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dafydd Jenkins has this week <\/a>stated the squad believe they can win and Lake says that sentiment has to be shared by the home side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We wouldn&#8217;t be here if we didn&#8217;t think we could win,&#8221; Lake told BBC Radio Cymru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no point being in the building if we thought we couldn&#8217;t win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re excited about the challenge that is coming, but we&#8217;re confident also that we have enough to take it to them too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales have lost their past 33 matches against New Zealand since the previous victory 72 years ago. Steve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-295243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}