{"id":370085,"date":"2026-01-14T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370085\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:49:07","slug":"taulupe-faletau-number-eight-ruled-out-of-first-three-wales-games-in-six-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370085\/","title":{"rendered":"Taulupe Faletau: Number eight ruled out of first three Wales games in Six Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taulupe Faletau has been ruled out of Wales&#8217; first three games of the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old suffered a calf injury while playing for Cardiff against Ospreys on 1 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British and Irish Lions&#8217; number eight had not long returned from a knee injury which sidelined him for Wales&#8217; 2025 autumn internationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff coach Corniel van Zyl said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not clear on his return, but we&#8217;re definitely looking at the middle of the Six Nations, into our Leinster game [on 27 February].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That would rule Faletau out of Wales&#8217; opener against England on 7 February, along with the visits to Cardiff of France on 15 February and Scotland on 21 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is the target, we will see how it goes,&#8221; added van Zyl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taulupe Faletau has been ruled out of Wales&#8217; first three games of the Six Nations. The 35-year-old suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-370085","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\/370085","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=370085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}