{"id":9940,"date":"2026-03-07T01:49:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9940"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:49:55","slug":"six-nations-2026-ireland-27-17-wales-captain-dewi-lake-says-welsh-win-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9940","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Ireland 27-17 Wales &#8211; Captain Dewi Lake says Welsh win is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales captain Dewi Lake says a win is just around the corner after an encouraging display in the <\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">27-17 Six Nations defeat by Ireland<\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> in Dublin.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales&#8217; losing Six Nations streak has now stretched to 15 matches, with the previous victory in the tournament coming against Italy in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But this Dublin defeat was the finest performance in the Steve Tandy era so far, as Wales fell just short again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland head coach Andy Farrell said Wales were &#8220;tremendous and Ireland had been involved in a proper, dogged Test match&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This performance follows the narrow 26-23 home loss to Scotland two weeks ago, with Wales facing Italy on the final weekend in Cardiff next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales will bid to avoid the wooden spoon for the third successive Six Nations and try to claim a tournament win for the first time in almost 1,100 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The win is coming, I can feel it, it is just around the corner,&#8221; said Lake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales captain Dewi Lake says a win is just around the corner after an encouraging display in the 27-17 Six Nations defeat by Ireland in Dublin. Wales&#8217; losing Six Nations streak has now stretched to 15 matches, with the previous victory in the tournament coming against Italy in March 2023. But this Dublin defeat was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}