{"id":365852,"date":"2026-01-12T08:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365852\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:57:16","slug":"challenge-cup-benetton-crush-dragons-after-cardiff-beat-racing-92-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365852\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Cup: Benetton crush Dragons after Cardiff beat Racing 92 &#8211; as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postpublished at 19:24 GMT 10 January<\/p>\n<p>19:24 GMT 10 January<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Benetton 74-21 Dragons<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c87975c3-94cf-4337-b614-e0edef4d9324.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Chris Horsman<br \/>Former Wales prop on BBC Radio Wales<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Everything went wrong from a Dragons perspective. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was a method, you can argue if it\u2019s the right or wrong way but tonight, you can confidently say it\u2019s the wrong method. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first 20 minutes, every time the Dragons had the ball they gave it back to Benetton who capitalised. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defensively, they couldn\u2019t stop Benetton, and eventually the dam just broke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From a Dragons perspective, that\u2019s the worse it could\u2019ve got. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been four steps forward the past few weeks, but tonight that was 10 steps back.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postpublished at 19:24 GMT 10 January 19:24 GMT 10 January FT: Benetton 74-21 Dragons Chris HorsmanFormer Wales prop&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":["post-365852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365852","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=365852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365852\/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=365852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}