Wales have now lost 11 of their past 12 Tests and while they were rarely expected to beat France, they certainly had the visitors rattled at the Arms Park.<\/p>\n
Pressure up front led to two swift yellow cards, either side of a penalty try, and plenty of uncharacteristic errors from Les Bleues.<\/p>\n
But while Wales still held France to 7-7 at half-time, their failure to capitalise on a nine-minute period against 13 players told a story.<\/p>\n
They also struggled to contain the inevitable backlash as France seized control with three tries in the space of 14 minutes early in the second half.<\/p>\n
“We attempted 247 tackles, that’s a lot and it does take its toll,” said Lynn.<\/p>\n
“We have to look to keep the ball more. It was the same against Scotland, we were forcing the ball. <\/p>\n
“The set-piece did well in the first half but not in the second. We need to be more consistent in those areas.”<\/p>\n
Lynn insists his side are closing the gap on the leading nations.<\/p>\n
“We went in level at half-time against a top-four side and I thought the final scoreline was harsh,” he added.<\/p>\n
“It’s just making sure we’re getting better with the first 10-15 minutes of the second half and the bench needs to be making the sort of impact that France’s did.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales have now lost 11 of their past 12 Tests and while they were rarely expected to beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-540000","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\/540000","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=540000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}