{"id":418776,"date":"2026-02-10T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418776\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:24:09","slug":"six-nations-2026-wales-v-france-all-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418776\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Wales v France &#8211; all you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales and France will renew a 118-year rivalry when they face each other in the Six Nations game in Cardiff on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ce8r8jp5evmo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">48-7 away loss to England<\/a> emphasised why these are grim times for Welsh rugby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Steve Tandy and his players must now regroup in time for the weekend visit of Les Bleus to the Principality Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">French fans will arrive for a weekend of rugby in the Welsh capital in high spirits as they chase a first Grand Slam since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">France are due to name their team on Thursday morning, with Wales set to announce 24 hours later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales and France will renew a 118-year rivalry when they face each other in the Six Nations game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-418776","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\/418776","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=418776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}