Biggar opens the scoring, but Wales trail at half time

England bemoaned their lack of discipline on yesterday, which allowed Wales flyhalf and man-of-the-match Dan Biggar to kick seven penalties and keep his team in contention throughout a Rugby World Cup thriller.

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“It is knockout rugby now. France lost two pool matches in 2011, got 11 points and still made the final, so bonus points could yet play an important part”.

“Everything has to be on beating Australia”.

The defeat comes as a crushing blow to England, who dominated large spells of the contest but were simply unable to finish their opponents off.

Fiji were heroic in defence and rose to the occasion magnificently, with giant wing Nemani Nadolo scoring a popular first-half try, and on this evidence they are capable of causing an upset of their heavyweight rivals in the group. We weighed up the options and we wanted to go for that win.

“It was a tough kick and in the two driving mauls before we’d made some good ground”. It hurts like hell at the moment for myself and the other guys.

On the decision to go for a line-out, Lancaster added: “It was a big call”.

“It is never nice seeing your mates go down, but from number one to 31 in the squad we have always been there together”.

“Ill-discipline from us let them back in the game and it was a real shame”. We spoke beforehand about the responsibility and leadership a lot of players had taken and how this game was about emotion and how it was about being in the game.

Repeated infringements, particularly at the breakdown, were punished by French referee Jerome Garces, pinning England back on the scoreboard time after time. “Ben Youngs is an injury, Courtney Lawes is an injury, Tom Youngs had cramp so we accumulated the same sort of attrition during the game”.

Liam Williams was stretchered off with a concussion, Hallam Amos departed with a suspected dislocated shoulder and Scott Williams with a knee injury – all unlikely to feature against Fiji on Thursday. “Today was about courage”, Gatland said. You just have to dig deep.

England’s coaching team’s mistake – although some of it may have been borne out of injury-enforced necessity – was to bring the bench on.

“I don’t think we will be resting too many players (against Fiji), but obviously that is down to the boss (Gatland)”.

However it was Wales’ No 10 Dan Biggar who proved the match victor with his faultless kicking in a man of the match performance.

“They were so near the winning line and they reminded me of an athlete coming around the final bend, thinking “I have to go for it”.

“Those are the decisions you make sometimes”.

Rugby World Cup: South Africa have put their first-up loss well behind them, moving to the top of Pool B following ar 40-point demolition of Samoa. It’s one of those things. “Personally, I would have taken the three points”.