{"id":439458,"date":"2026-02-22T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439458\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:33:19","slug":"six-nations-2026-wales-v-scotland-hosts-plan-to-keep-finn-russell-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439458\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Wales v Scotland &#8211; Hosts plan to keep Finn Russell quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russell, 33, produced an outstanding display as Scotland swept aside England 31-20 in the Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield last weekend and will be seeking to inflict more Six Nations damage on winless Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tandy will be hoping that does not happen at the Principality Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to trust ourselves in what we&#8217;re trying to build,&#8221; said Tandy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to be making sure we stay connected around the defence and are not giving him easy options or getting too narrow because he will find the soft spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will have moments in the game and we are aware of what Finn and the rest of the Scottish backline can do. It is a British and Irish Lions backline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to make sure we are focusing on where we can be better than last week to implement more of our game.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell, 33, produced an outstanding display as Scotland swept aside England 31-20 in the Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439458","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\/439458","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=439458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}