{"id":8342,"date":"2012-02-26T02:34:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/rugby-wales-beat-england-with-late-williams-try\/"},"modified":"2012-02-26T02:34:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:23","slug":"rugby-wales-beat-england-with-late-williams-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-wales-beat-england-with-late-williams-try\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Wales beat England with late Williams try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mitch Phillips<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Scott Williams scored a<br \/>\nbreakaway try five minutes from time to give Wales a 19-12<br \/>\nvictory over England at Twickenham to secure their 20th Six<br \/>\nNations Triple Crown on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An inexperienced England side had looked set to upset the<br \/>\nodds and secure their own third win of the championship as they<br \/>\nled for most of the second half before Williams, on as a<br \/>\nsecond-half replacement for Jamie Roberts, stripped the ball<br \/>\nfrom Courtney Lawes and ran 50 metres to score the only try of<br \/>\nthe match.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Three penalties by Owen Farrell in his first start at<br \/>\nflyhalf had England 9-6 ahead at halftime and 12-6 up soon after<br \/>\nbut four from Leigh Halfpenny had it nicely balanced at 12-12<br \/>\ngoing into the final 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Williams then made the vital score, though Wales had a<br \/>\nnervous wait when the video official ruled that David Strettle<br \/>\nhad failed to ground the ball as he dived over the line in<br \/>\nstoppage time.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Editing by Martyn Herman; to query or comment on this story<br \/>\nemail sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mitch Phillips LONDON Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Scott Williams scored a breakaway try five minutes from time to give Wales a 19-12 victory over England at Twickenham to secure their 20th Six Nations Triple Crown on Saturday. An inexperienced England side had looked set to upset the odds and secure their own third win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}