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Wales slip up against Italy in Women's Six Nations
By Online Editors
Wales let slip a half-time lead against Italy to begin their Women’s Six Nations campaign with a 19-15 home loss.
Robyn Wilkins kicked an early penalty and also converted Hannah Jones’ try to give Wales a 10-5 lead at the interval, with Italy scoring through hooker Melissa Bettoni but also spurning a number of other chances.
The visitors made amends after the break and scrum-half Sara Barattin was stopped just short of the line after a superb break, but the ball was quickly recycled for winger Maria Magatti to dive over from close range.
Five minutes later Italy worked the ball wide from a five-metre scrum and left wing Sofia Stefan was given a simple finish, with Michela Sillari converting both scores to make it 19-10.
Wales refused to throw in the towel and Kelsey Jones scored a well-worked try from a line-out, but Italy held on to seal victory at Cardiff Arms Park.
PA
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Go to commentsEngland played well enough to win but couldnt score when they needed to and couldnt defend a couple of X-Factor moments from Telea which was ultimately the difference. They needed to hold the ball more and make the AB's make more tackles. Territorially they were good for the first 60. Defending their lead and playing pragmatic rugby in the last 20 was silly. The AB's always had the potential to come back. England still have a long way to go, definite progress would have been shown had they won but it seems they are still stuck where they were shortly after the six nations and their tour to NZ
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