Wales V Italy: Six Nations 2026 Rugby Union – Live

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Teams

Wales
Louis Rees‑Zammit; Ellis Mee, Eddie James, Joe Hawkins, Josh Adams; Dan Edwards, Tomos Williams; Rhys Carré, Dewi Lake (c), Tomas Francis; Dafydd Jenkins, Ben Carter; Alex Mann, James Botham, Aaron Wainwright.
Replacements: Ryan Elias, Nicky Smith, Archie Griffin, Adam Beard, Ollie Cracknell, Kieran Hardy, Jarrod Evans, Blair Murray.

Preamble

There’s a celebrated Italian building La Dolce Vita, which I judge translates straight to “we hit England, person immoderate of that!”. This is nan power Gonzalo Quesada’s men bring to Cardiff coming arsenic they activity their first ever three-win Six Nations tournament. Their last position successful nan array is to beryllium wished by results elsewhere today, but arsenic a measurement marker for their improvement this is of lesser import than nan number successful nan W column.

Wales besides person their ain connection of course, and whether they speak it aliases not each fans of Cymru will person nan emotion of digon nawr – “enough now”. Enough of governance and administrative clustershambles, capable non sell-out matches, capable rationalisation of mediocre performances, capable losing. For each Italy’s tangible improvement, this was ever nan lucifer that presented nan location broadside pinch nan champion chance of avoiding nan woody spoon and they will beryllium pouring everything into this.

Will it beryllium enough? The shape suggests not and added to this nan Azzuri person their ain information to animate them. Can Wales summon their caller vastly improved outings and adhd nan other required to flooded this? All will beryllium revealed successful nan adjacent fewer hours.