23-26: Scotland comes back from 20-5 to Wales and continues to aspire to the Six Nations Tournament

The Scottish team presented its candidacy for the title of champion of Six Nations after adding their second victory in the tournament, after winning 23-26 this Saturday against Welshin a meeting in which the ‘XV del Cardo’ They trailed 20-5 eight minutes into the second half.

A score that reflected, better than anything, the spectacular improvement of the Welsh team compared to the first two days in which the Steve Tandy They fell decisively against England (48-7) and France (12-54).

Push that faded little by little with the passage of a second half that seemed eternal for the locals, the complete opposite of Scotland who with three tries, the last of them, the work of George Turnerwith five minutes left, turned the contest around (23-26).

A result that left without a prize a Wales that seemed like a totally different team from the first two days of the tournament.

Especially in defense, where the ‘XV of the Dragon’which presented up to four substitutions in the starting fifteen, stopped behaving like the timid team that found itself dismasted by the English and French and managed to stop the Scottish attack.

The return of the wing was of no use to Scotland Duhan van der Merwethe player with the most tries -35 in 52 games- in the history of the Scottish team, in the face of unusual and desperate management errors.

Failures that not only prevented Scotland, which bore little or no resemblance to the team that beat England 31-20 last week, from giving rise to Van der Merwe’s game, but also allowed the Welsh defense to gain more and more confidence.

A sensational defensive work that did not take long to find its correlation in attack, where Wales did more in the first twenty minutes than in the previous matches against England and France as witnessed by the tests of Rhys Carre and Josh Adams.

Points to which to add the effectiveness of sticks Sam Castlelow that with two conversions and a penalty blow allowed the ‘XV del Dragón’ to reach halftime with a twelve-point advantage (17-5) that no one could have imagined before starting the match.

A difference that Costelow was responsible for amplifying even more nine minutes into the second half with the transformation of a new penalty shot that seemed to put the home team’s victory on track (20-5).

Nothing could be further from the truth since when everything seemed to be looking worse for the Scots, Gregor Townsend’s men appealed to their traditional irreducible character and with two tries from Finn Russell and Darcy Graham they managed to cut their deficit to just four points (23-19) with twenty minutes of play left.

A test of mental strength for a Welsh team immersed in the rebuilding process, which despite its unwavering faith, ended up giving in to the push of a Scotland that definitively turned the score around (23-26) with five minutes remaining with a try by George Turner and the subsequent conversion by Finn Russell.

The first and only time that the Scots were ahead on the scoreboard, but enough to achieve a victory that allows Gregor Townsend’s men to apply for a title that they have not won since 1999, the last one that was played with five teams before the inclusion of Italy.