Wales 17-13 Fiji
Visitors threaten upset despite going down to 14 players
For 50 years, from the moment Wales was first enchanted by the exuberance of Fiji, there has been a little magic to this fixture. Very few of the encounters in that half-century have failed to deliver something out of the ordinary, including especially Fijis one and only victory, 38-34 in Nantes during the 2007 World Cup.
That was an exceptional match. This was not. This did its best to drain the relationship of love. Total collapse into national disgrace was avoided because Wales scrambled to victory, but they were unable to score a point in the second half, when Fiji were down to 14 players, their prop Campese Maafu having been sent off for a second yellow card. But it was bad, the worst bit coming when poor old Gethin Jenkins, hobbling on a wounded leg and wanting anything but the ball to come his way, was duly hit on his head by it.
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