{"id":337146,"date":"2025-12-26T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337146\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T20:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:50:10","slug":"united-rugby-championship-live-ospreys-and-cardiff-victorious-on-festive-welsh-derby-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337146\/","title":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship LIVE: Ospreys and Cardiff victorious on festive Welsh derby day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for joining uspublished at 19:41 GMT<\/p>\n<p>19:41 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Scarlets 19-26 Ospreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was far from a classic, but a typical derby with bloodied and battered bodies all over the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scarlets came out firing and dominated possession and territory, but inaccuracies and unforced errors were the story of their evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ospreys&#8217; second victory of the season sees them leap up to 12th in the United Rugby Championship (URC) table, while Scarlets are rooted to the bottom having played one game less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That ends our five hours of derby coverage, with Cardiff taking the spoils in the earlier east Wales derby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Time now to get a well-earned cuppa and perhaps another turkey sandwich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ospreys players embrace at full time\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2f664e1d-9104-419c-8ebb-737d49f69ca8.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2736\" height=\"1539\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Huw Evans Picture Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks for joining uspublished at 19:41 GMT 19:41 GMT FT: Scarlets 19-26 Ospreys It was far from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-337146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}