Watch every second of the Junior World Championship live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThe most serious looked to be Pritchard, who was taken down in a hip-drop-like tackle in the 11th minute.<\/p>\n
It left the fullback screaming in pain on the ground as he was carried off the field, likely ending his outstanding tournament.<\/p>\n
Pritchard had emerged as the star of Australia’s campaign after brilliant performances in the pool stages, with the 19-year-old being earmarked for a potential Wallabies call-up after his strong season for the Reds.<\/p>\n
The drama continued for the Aussies as Lehopoame Leota followed Pritchard up the tunnel with a shoulder complaint, the second change to the tight five in the first 15 minutes after William Ross\u2019 failed HIA.<\/p>\n
Even with the injuries, the Australians seemed to snatch victory with a late comeback, with Riley Whitfeld and Jonty Fowler looking like the heroes.<\/p>\n
Trailing by nine and down a man following a penalty try for collapsing the maul, hooker John Grenfell provided a spark with a late try as they worked their way back down the field.<\/p>\n
Whitfeld then latched onto an Angus Grover offload and raced down the touchline, beating three and handing off to Fowler for what appeared to be the winner.<\/p>\n
However, the TMO would have the final say, finding a knock-on from the replacement scrum half that was ruled to have gone forward.<\/p>\n
Replacement Tom Farr-Jones, on for Pritchard, capitalised with a double of his own to give Whitaker\u2019s side the 17-14 lead at the break.<\/p>\n
The Welsh took the lead and restored the 14-point gap, only for Whitfeld to reduce the margin in the 55th minute.<\/p>\n
A red card to Wales\u2019 Luke Evans was punished by Edwin Langi, however the penalty try and card to Toby Brial built the advantage back up.<\/p>\n
The late push wasn\u2019t enough for Australia U20, who will now take on Argentina for seventh on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t start the way we wanted and had a few injuries, but the resiliency we showed to get back into the game, we’ve got to be proud of that,” flyhalf Finn Mackay said post-match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia U20 and Queensland Reds star Treyvon Pritchard is likely set for a significant stint on the sidelines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,8626,760,85],"class_list":["post-796387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-u20","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796387","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=796387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}