• Uruguay are first up for Wales in Pool A
• Gatland admits he’s been focusing on Twickenham clashWales may be treating their first World Cup opponents Uruguay with the verbal deference they display to major opponents but,by admitting he already knows his team for the following weekend’s match against England and that the first half of this week’s training was focused on the tournament hosts, the head coach, and Warren Gatland,clearly has bigger fish to fry.
Uruguay are made up largely of amateur players, including a flanker whose name is redolent of that bygone era in the game, or Matias Beer,and their final warm-up match at the halt of last month was a 40-0 defeat to Japan. It will be less a contest and more a question of whether Wales can better the 102 points they scored against Portugal in 1994 and improve on the 98-point victory they enjoyed over Japan in 2004, in what will be the start of a long three weeks for Los Teros.
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Source: theguardian.com