The reaction of former Wales internationals has also been positive in defeat.<\/p>\n
Speaking on BBC One, Philippa Tuttiett said: “Wales were on a run of nine international defeats.<\/p>\n
“The turnaround that they have done to beat South Africa and push the sixth-ranked team in the world to the end is incredible.<\/p>\n
“It was a tough innings, but still a really proud performance.”<\/p>\n
Dyddgu Morgan-Hywel said: “We did see the momentum from the South Africa win.<\/p>\n
“I was a little worried, but Wales put another performance in. Yes, they’re disappointed, but there was only two points in it.”<\/p>\n
Former captain Siwan Lillicrap said: “I was stood up in commentary and I felt gutted and proud all at the same time. <\/p>\n
“I was gutted because they stayed in the fight and could have won it, and proud of the fight they had.<\/p>\n
“There were errors; Test match rugby isn’t always going to be perfect, but you’ve got to remember USA are sixth in the world. <\/p>\n
“They had an outstanding performance last week, but you learn when you win and you learn when you lose.<\/p>\n
“We’re still seeing really good stuff and growth from what we’ve seen previously.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reaction of former Wales internationals has also been positive in defeat. Speaking on BBC One, Philippa Tuttiett…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-784580","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\/784580","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=784580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}