Dan Biggar’s late drop goal edges Wales past Scotland in Six Nations thriller

Dan Biggar fights through Scotland’s ranks as Wales maintained their long unbeaten run against the Scots in Six Nations matches in Cardiff. Photograph: Kieran McManus/Shutterstock

So Wales are not quite as bad as we thought, Scotland not nearly as consistent as they would like. After opening weekends of contrasting fortunes, the two played out a thriller, the sort of edgy, imperfect, dramatic event on which this championship prides itself.

Dan Biggar, on his 100th cap, stepped up – insofar as his injured knee would allow – to land a drop goal with 10 minutes to go which proved the winner. He did it while his opposite number, Finn Russell, every bit as much a talisman for Scotland as Biggar is for Wales, was in the sin bin after a knock-on that was judged to be deliberate. Scotland, having played most of the match with their usual combination of brio and class, fell away sharply thereafter. The final 10 minutes saw them haunted and error-prone while Wales grew all the larger.