{"id":180400,"date":"2025-12-08T03:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180400\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T03:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:57:09","slug":"connacht-blow-21-0-lead-as-ospreys-finish-dogfight-singing-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180400\/","title":{"rendered":"Connacht blow 21-0 lead as Ospreys finish dogfight singing in the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Challenge Cup: Ospreys 24 Connacht 21\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sean Jansen goes over to score Connacht's second try against Ospreys in the Challenge Cup. Photo: Kian Abdullah\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/26c0f1fb-b0df-4bd4-a550-62514167ecdf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sean Jansen goes over to score Connacht&#8217;s second try against Ospreys in the Challenge Cup. Photo: Kian Abdullah\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Connacht made a disastrous start to their Challenge Cup campaign when they blew a 21-0 lead they built up after just 27 minutes in Bridgend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Stuart Lancaster\u2019s men seemed poised to have the bonus point in the bag by the break in tough conditions but failed to kill off the Ospreys challenge and paid the price in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Challenge Cup: Ospreys 24 Connacht 21 Sean Jansen goes over to score Connacht&#8217;s second try against Ospreys in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28454,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-180400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}