{"id":78394,"date":"2025-11-15T05:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rees-zammit-returns-starts-for-wales-vs-japan-after-his-nfl-adventure\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T05:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:47:50","slug":"rees-zammit-returns-starts-for-wales-vs-japan-after-his-nfl-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/rees-zammit-returns-starts-for-wales-vs-japan-after-his-nfl-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Rees-Zammit returns: Starts for Wales vs. Japan after his NFL adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit returns to the Welsh starting XV after his foray into American football. The match against Japan in Cardiff will mark his first start since leaving the NFL.\n\nThe talented wing, who joined Bristol this season after his time with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Jacksonville Jaguars, has been included in Steve Tandy&#8217;s team for the second match of the Quilter Nations Series at the Principality Stadium.\n\nRees-Zammit, 24 years old, already had minutes in the match against Argentina, coming off the bench in the 52-28 defeat last Sunday.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1107%2Fr1572073_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Rees-Zammit\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Louis Rees-Zammit ser\u00e1 titular contra Jap\u00f3n.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nThe injury to captain Jac Morgan has caused changes in the pack. Alex Mann moves to the open flanker position, while Alan Wainwright will start as blindside.\n\nOlly Cracknell, Leicester player, enters the team as number eight after debuting as a substitute the previous weekend.\n\nTandy has also made rotations in the first line. Nicky Smith and Archie Griffin come into the team, while Rhys Carre and Keiron Assiratti will be on the bench.\n\nThe hooker Dewi Lake takes over the captaincy in place of Morgan, who will miss the rest of the autumn series due to a dislocated shoulder.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think we clearly saw what we want to do against Argentina. There were many positives, our attack was excellent and I saw a lot of physicality, but there is much to improve.<\/p><cite>Steve Tandy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe coach added: &#8220;We are focusing on that. We want to build on the first performance for this weekend.&#8221;\n\n<b>Wales&#8217; Lineup against Japan:<\/b>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Blair Murray<\/li><li>Louis Rees-Zammit<\/li><li>Max Llewellyn<\/li><li>Ben Thomas<\/li><li>Josh Adams<\/li><li>Dan Edwards<\/li><li>Tomos Williams<\/li><li>Nicky Smith<\/li><li>Dewi Lake (captain)<\/li><li>Archie Griffin<\/li><li>Dafydd Jenkins<\/li><li>Adam Beard<\/li><li>Aaron Wainwright<\/li><li>Alex Mann<\/li><li>Olly Cracknell<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<b>Substitutes:<\/b> Liam Belcher, Rhys Carre, Keiron Assiratti, Freddie Thomas, Taine Plumtree, Kieran Hardy, Jarrod Evans, Nick Tompkins.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Rees-Zammit returns to the Welsh starting XV after his foray into American football. The match against Japan in Cardiff will mark his first start since leaving the NFL. The talented wing, who joined Bristol this season after his time with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Jacksonville Jaguars, has been included in Steve Tandy&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[642,6663,203,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-78394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-japan","9":"tag-louis-rees-zammit","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-wales"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78394","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=78394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}