The next test is Saturday’s clash with South Africa and Wales have been warned they need to be much more ruthless in the quarter-final.
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Injury-hit Wales have called up Ospreys wing Eli Walker to replace Liam Williams ahead of this weekend’s World Cup quarter-final against South Africa.
The Scarlets back limped off nursing a foot injury during Saturday’s 15-6 Pool A defeat against Australia at Twickenham.
Wales’ Lloyd Williams has revealed how he and fellow scrum-half Gareth Davies have re-enacted the try that helped knock England out of the World Cup at the request of teammates.
Once-capped Walker, 23, was in Wales’ initial 31-man squad, but then omitted because of a hamstring injury. “We’ve had our fair few, but we keep on saying, the players that are available to us, we trust them and they are giving us 100 per cent”. “Tyler played really at 13 against Fiji, who are very physical, something we will have to defend against and attack against at the weekend. He has been outstanding in the last couple of years”, Wales assistant coach and skills specialist Neil Jenkins said on Sunday. When they sit down to do their analysis of the match this week, they’ll look back and be able to say to each other, ‘look guys, this is what we’re made of.
“He’s a huge player for us, and he did well again yesterday”.
“You are aware of the injuries which we have had”.
“We have had incredible bad luck, there is no doubt about that”.
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Howley added: “Having looked at South Africa over the last four or five weeks, the Japan loss refocused where they were at”. “We have to be good enough to take those chances against South Africa from the first minute. We all believed we could have won the game, but we had slipped behind”, he said.
