{"id":495593,"date":"2026-02-21T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495593\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:14:08","slug":"cardiff-heartbreak-as-late-scottish-try-sinks-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495593\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff heartbreak as late Scottish try sinks Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">A try five minutes from time from hooker George Turner has secured Scotland a 26-23 bonus-point \u200cvictory over Wales, breaking the hearts of the home side whose losing run in the Six Nations Championship was extended to 14 \u200cgames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Wales were much improved on recent showings and led 17-5 at halftime in a positive display, but errors at key moments allowed Scotland back \u200cin on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of the 2026 Six Nations live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Scotland moved to the top of the Six Nations table with 11 points from three matches, one more than France, who have a game in hand against Italy on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The home side scored first-half tries through prop Rhys Carre and winger Josh Adams, but it was their improved defence that caught the eye, after they&#8217;d conceded 15 tries and 102 points in their first two games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;It is gut-wrenching,&#8221; Wales captain Dewi Lake \u200csaid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;Credit to Scotland, in \u200ctheir moments they \u2060were unstoppable. But the boys really fronted up and were dominant in that first half. Scotland \u200bhad their moments in the second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;We spoke a lot about staying in moments and switched on. For us, it is those key moments that are going away from us at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Scotland roared back in the second half and won thanks to tries from wings Kyle Steyn and Darcy Graham, flyhalf Finn Russell and Turner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;We dug deep and did what we needed to do to win. Full credit to Wales, they \u2060came out with fight. We had to find a way to win ugly,&#8221; \u200cScotland&#8217;s Australian-born captain \u200bSione Tuipulotu said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;I said to the boys at halftime we would need to find a little bit in themselves to come away with the \u200bvictory. Several \u200cof the boys really out their hand up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;It was not as sharp a performance as last week, but that was down to \u200bWales&#8217; performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A try five minutes from time from hooker George Turner has secured Scotland a 26-23 bonus-point \u200cvictory over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,5994,103300,85,12812],"class_list":["post-495593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-scotland","tag-six-nations","tag-sports","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495593","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=495593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}