Wales prop Keiron Assiratti returned from a calf injury among five Cardiff changes to the side that narrowly beat the Dragons on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n
Fellow prop Danny Southworth, lock George Nott, number eight Alun Lawrence and scrum-half Johan Mulder also started.<\/p>\n
Stand-in Ospreys skipper Dewi Lake dropped to the replacement bench, with Parry and full-back Jack Walsh named as co-captains. <\/p>\n
Hardy, who was only the specialist number nine in the Ospreys squad with injuries to Reuben Morgan-Williams and Luke Davies, went close to the opening score, but lost the ball over the line before flanker Harri Deaves was also held up.<\/p>\n
Wales wing Giles eventually broke the deadlock with his fine individual try following a clever Hardy pass.<\/p>\n
In their first attack of note Cardiff responded with some classy attacking play with centre Ben Thomas gliding through the Ospreys defence twice and providing the try-scoring pass to Adams.<\/p>\n
Ospreys returned to the power game with Hardy benefitting by diving over the ruck to score.<\/p>\n
Cardiff captain Liam Belcher was shown a yellow card for an illegal clearout on Rhys Davies in an action that visiting flanker Dan Thomas was also involved with, but he avoided being sin-binned.<\/p>\n
Ospreys could not take advantage of the extra man and led 12-7 at half-time.<\/p>\n
Cardiff were restored to 15 men, but Ospreys scored early in the second half after instrumental work from wing Hopkins and lock Ryan Smith allowing Parry to score.<\/p>\n
Ospreys were without Wales prop Gareth Thomas, who is sidelined with a calf injury until the end of January, but Garyn Phillips demonstrated his worth when he popped up with a crucial defensive turnover.<\/p>\n
Hardy crossed for the bonus-point score as he left Cardiff wing Mason Grady trailing in his wake before Hopkins completed the Ospreys scoring.<\/p>\n
Cardiff responded with a fine second score for Adams before Faletau charged over, with their supporters wondering where this attacking intent had been for the opening 70 minutes.<\/p>\n
Ospreys replacement Morgan Morse was shown a yellow card for a professional foul before Sebastian crossed for the losing bonus-point score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales prop Keiron Assiratti returned from a calf injury among five Cardiff changes to the side that narrowly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-385406","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\/385406","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=385406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}