North: Injury-hit Wales are not thinking about lifting trophy yet

England now likely has to beat Australia next Saturday, back at Twickenham, to avoid elimination from the toughest ever pool at a World Cup.

“Yeah there was so much at stake and we have a massive challenge next weekend so we have to get rid of what happened and move on as quickly as we can”.

“I feel cheeky taking man-of-the-match”.

“In too many of England’s games under Stuart Lancaster England have not been able to see the job through; not played for the full eighty minutes”, Moore adds.

Sir Clive Woodward, the only coach to lead England to a World Cup used his Daily Mail column to criticise some decisions. We are certainly not having the best run with injuries at the moment.

“Our discipline cost us the game and that is really disappointing”.

Youngs said: “Maybe we are not as good as we thought we were”.

Many offences took place in situations of no great danger, with players routinely trying to fight for the ball with their hands on the ground or failing to roll away from the tackle, basic laws of the game that have been clamped down on strongly by referees throughout the tournament. “Farrell was kicking brilliantly and if we’d drawn, that would not have been a disastrous result”, Carling said.

Full-back Liam Williams, meanwhile, was concussed after England flanker Tom Wood’s swinging leg made contact with his head, which could conceivably threaten his participation against Fiji and Australia.

In the dying seconds England had a chance to level at 28-28 but rather than give Owen Farrell-who like Biggar landed all of his goal-kicks-another shot from out wide, they opted for a line-out in the hope of a match-clinching try.

Wales twice trailed by 10 points but, crucially, never allowed the hosts to get out of sight.

“Now, we have got to focus all our attention on Fiji with a short turnaround”.

Wales are favourites in that game, but they’ve had problems with injuries.

Reflecting on the game – it was Wales’ third win against England at Twickenham since Gatland took charge in early 2008 – Edwards saluted the players, who arrived back in Wales at 3am on Sunday and went straight into a cryotherapy chamber recovery session. Against Australia they conceded three tries and two of them were from mauls so they went 80 minutes and conceded only one open-field try against an Australian team who were fully loaded with all their best players. “I’m so proud of them”.

“We’ve beaten top quality teams across the board”.

With the team stepping up preparations to stay alive in the tournament, McKee said Wales’ victory had given them another big challenge.

After losses to England and Australia, and in order to qualify for the quarterfinals, the Flying Fijians must beat Wales and Uruguay with bonus points.