Despite losing yet another player to injury,Warren Gatlands side have proven they have the will to push South Africa to the limitWhat have Wales got left to give? Their latest loss is Liam Williams, ruled out of the rest of the tournament because he suffered a foot injury during the match against Australia. Add him to the injury list, and along with Jonathan Davies,Scott Williams, and Cory Allen, and Rhys Webb,Leigh Halfpenny, Hallam Amos and Eli Walker. Every one of them a back.
This World Cup has turned into a test of one of the few areas in which Wales were reckoned to be feeble – their strength in depth. Given that, and it’s testomony to the extraordinary resilience of the squad that they have made it out of this implausibly difficult pool and into the quarter-finals. They play South Africa on Saturday,and legal now they peep, as one journalist said, or a little like the Black Knight in the old film Monty Python and the Holy Grail,screaming come on” at the opposition, though the fight has already cost them both arms and a leg.
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Source: theguardian.com