{"id":14743,"date":"2025-07-05T04:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T08:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/japan-remounts-to-wales-18-consecutive-defeats-for-welsh-rugby\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T04:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T08:12:18","slug":"japan-remounts-to-wales-18-consecutive-defeats-for-welsh-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/japan-remounts-to-wales-18-consecutive-defeats-for-welsh-rugby\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Remounts to Wales: 18 Consecutive Defeats for Welsh Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Japan Rallies and Defeats Wales in an Exciting Match<\/h2>\n\n\nIn a duel full of unexpected twists, Japan demonstrated their power by coming back in the second half to defeat Wales with a score of 24-19 on the island of Kyushu on Saturday. This victory extends Wales&#8217; losing streak to 18 consecutive test matches.\n\nWales, who were up 19-7 at halftime, couldn&#8217;t hold their lead. Two impressive tries in the second half allowed Japan to turn the score around and secure the victory.\n\nThe match, played at the Mikuni World Stadium, was a clash marked by errors, where both teams managed to score three tries. Wales was desperately seeking to end an 18-month drought, as their last victory dates back to the 2023 Rugby World Cup against Georgia.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0705%2Fr1515116_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Japan managed a comeback to beat Wales on Saturday.<\/em>\n\nUpon reaching halftime, Wales seemed poised to break their losing streak, but their performance faltered in the second half, allowing Japan to react and secure a narrow victory.\n\nTakuro Matsunaga, Japan&#8217;s fullback, scored in the first half, while Ichigo Nakakusu and Halatoa Vailea, both substitutes, added two more tries. Lee Seungsin converted all the tries and also scored a penalty.\n\nWales&#8217; points were concentrated in the first half, with tries from Ben Thomas and Tom Rogers, as well as a penalty try. Sam Costelow only managed one conversion.\n\nThis defeat represents a new setback for Welsh rugby, which is seeking to rebuild after its recent and harsh 68-14 defeat against England in the last match of the Six Nations in March. As a result, Wales will drop to 14th place in the world ranking.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Rallies and Defeats Wales in an Exciting Match In a duel full of unexpected twists, Japan demonstrated their power by coming back in the second half to defeat Wales with a score of 24-19 on the island of Kyushu on Saturday. This victory extends Wales&#8217; losing streak to 18 consecutive test matches. Wales, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[642,203,216,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-14743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-japan","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-victory","11":"tag-wales"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}