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World Cup warm-up: Wales 13-6 England• Quick-witted score proves difference between two sidesWarren Gatland has said that results in matches before the World Cup are of little consequence, but the rapture with which his players and the crowd greeted the repelling of England’s driving maul in the final minute suggested otherwise.
Defeat at Twickenham last week had given the encounter meaning for Wales and the warm-up overheated in the opening minutes when, after Nicky Smith had been penalised for collapsing a scrum, Tomas Francis lunged at his opposite number, Ellis Genge. A massive pile-up followed but no one had the room to land anything meaningful and it was largely an afternoon when tactical punches were pulled.