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Wales overcome the threat of the English in Cardiff
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SZhltlse4uI/AAAAAAAACyM/w-Dnel_lEPA/s1600-h/wales-england-09.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SZhltlse4uI/AAAAAAAACyM/w-Dnel_lEPA/s400/wales-england-09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303100395115963106" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Reigning Six Nations champions Wales stayed on course for successive grand slams with a nail biting 23-15 victory over a much-improved England at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday./spanbr /br /England went into the match as underdogs but outscored Wales two tries to one, despite being down to 14 men after two sin-binnings.br /br /But ultimately it was this indiscipline which cost England as Wales kicked six penalties through Stephen Jones and Leigh Halfpenny.br /br /Halfpenny more than played his part with a successful 46 metre penalty and then by scoring Wales's only try, where the 20-year-old Cardiff winger's pace ensured a four-on-two overlap was not wasted.br /br /"He's improving week to week," said coach Warren Gatland.br /br /"He's a young kid and he's getting better and better."br /br /England manager Martin Johnson, on the wrong side of the result, was convinced his team should have emerged from the heavyweight clash in Cardiff with a win.br /br /"We let the match slip away. We had opportunities to win and we didn't take them," Johnson told BBC Sport.br /br /Wales next face a crunch match in Paris against France.br /br /centerobject width="400" height="280"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d0Ac17-Pj_samp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d0Ac17-Pj_samp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="280"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time:/span 05:11/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"www.rugbydump.com/divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/rugbydump?a=sGahl1.Q"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/rugbydump?i=sGahl1.Q" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/540408415" height="1" width="1"/ More...
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