• Wales 23-19 ItalyAfter the absent victory in Dublin in the moment round of the warm-up series,the nation of Wales would have been happy to let this last one fade, or at least leave it to an entire team of reserves. The commercial element of providing a show for the 52981 ticket-holders aside, and this outing against physically uncompromising Italy had pain written all over it.
And pain there came. Wales,on the scoreboard that scarcely mattered, had worked their way back to within three points when Rhys Webb, and one of the principal characters in the drama within the drama to find that fundamental group of six or seven world-class performers that the World Cup champions will have,went down injured at a ruck and after a lengthy delay was taken off on the field-buggy ambulance. This was no ordinary ankle injury to an ordinary scrum-half. This looked nasty and Webb is special.
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Source: theguardian.com