{"id":688143,"date":"2026-07-12T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688143\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:09:11","slug":"nations-championship-wales-took-step-back-in-argentina-rhys-carre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688143\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations Championship: Wales took step back in Argentina &#8211; Rhys Carre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales struck first through captain and hooker Dewi Lake from a driving line-out and, after a pair of Pumas tries, levelled thanks to Carre&#8217;s carrying prowess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Saracens prop made it five tries in six Tests when he barged over from the second phase of a quick tap in the 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carre scored a sensational try in Dublin from distance but has proved to be a weapon for the Welsh attack with training ground moves off penalties, scoring against France and Scotland in that fashion in the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of credit should be given to [attack coach] Matt Sherratt for putting me in the positions,&#8221; said Carre, a regular under Tandy after being frozen out by Warren Gatland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just glad that I can try to do what I can for the team \u2013 we&#8217;ve run the move a few times and scored off it, so I am not complaining.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the demands of travelling from Cardiff to San Juan to face Argentina, Wales&#8217; squad move on to Durban to face South Africa on Saturday, 18 July (16:40 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The travel is what it is, we are not going to use it as an excuse,&#8221; said Carre. &#8220;They are the best team in the world and we promise to give it everything that we&#8217;ve got and see what happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales struck first through captain and hooker Dewi Lake from a driving line-out and, after a pair of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-688143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688143","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=688143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}