Wing Louis Lynagh is one of the players who have experienced success in Cardiff, having been part of Italy’s winning side in 2024.<\/p>\n
“It is always good to be back here. I have amazing memories from two years ago and hopefully we can recreate that,” said Lynagh.<\/p>\n
“People now in our side now have had that experience of playing in these big moments and stadiums, so hopefully we can push forwards and win more games.”<\/p>\n
Welsh fans may be hoping that Italy may still be hungover following their success against England, but Lynagh dispelled that idea.<\/p>\n
“We had a good celebration after the game but soon turned our attention to recovering and playing Wales,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We don’t want [the win against England] to be a massive high followed by a low.<\/p>\n
“Italy in the past have had that big win but it has been a one-off and we lose the next week. We have been striving for that consistency and that has been one of our biggest growths and something Gonzalo has brought in.<\/p>\n
“He has done an amazing job so far and the team is fully behind him.” <\/p>\n
Italy have a few connections to Wales, with Welsh-speaking scrum-half Stephen Varney on the replacements’ bench this weekend.<\/p>\n
Defence coach Richard Hodges was formerly on the Cardiff management team and worked at the Arms Park with current Wales backroom duo Danny Wilson and Matt Sherratt.<\/p>\n
“Wales have been in a difficult point in their story but their growth in the Six Nations has been amazing to see,” said Lynagh.<\/p>\n
“People will say they have lost four games in a row and it will not be a difficult game, but we think the exact opposite.<\/p>\n
“They probably should have beaten Scotland and Ireland, so we know it is going to be a tough game and have prepared accordingly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wing Louis Lynagh is one of the players who have experienced success in Cardiff, having been part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474218","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\/474218","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=474218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}