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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Aylwin at Cardiff City Stadium

Jac Morgan double earns clinical Wales victory over Fiji in Nations Championship

Rugby players pile on top of each other near the try line as teammates celebrate
Try-scorer Jac Morgan lies at the bottom of a maul after Wales push over for a score against Fiji. Photograph: Andrew Orchard /Alamy

A rare away win for Wales. In Cardiff maybe, but the “visitors” claimed a classic smash-and-grab victory against hosts who, at times, played as if they came from a different hemisphere indeed, possibly even planet. How Fiji found themselves level at the break, let alone 15 down come the end, defies analysis, but Jac Morgan is one answer or at least the aptest representative of it.

Back on Wales’s flank, having missed most of the season through injury, Morgan scored two tries in the first half, but his defensive work was heroic throughout. Boy, it had to be.

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