England paid for panicking, claims Sir Gareth Edwards

Wales’ injury-ravaged World Cup campaign looks set to take another major double hit.

Speaking on Sunday at the Wales team base, assistant coach and defence specialist Shaun Edwards confirmed there is potential for fresh injury setbacks.

“Brilliant against Uruguay, brilliant against England now we’ve got to focus all our attention on Fiji“. “Wales put us under pressure and made us make silly choices”, he said.

“I don’t think we will be resting too many players, but obviously that’s down to the boss”, Edwards said.

At least two further replacements could be required with Scott Williams (knee) and Hallam Amos (shoulder) still to be cleared to continue in the tournament after being seriously hurt in Saturday’s 28-25 victory at Twickenham. They are the ones who are the biggest concerns. “We will just look at that later”.

“The two line-outs before we had good ascendancy in the driving but unfortunately it didn’t come off there”.

“It’s not about rallying around Chris, it’s about rallying around each other and making sure we’re going in the right direction”.

“They started mishitting their kicks, giving away opportunities to come back at them, and I could see an impetus in the red shirts – there seemed to be a little more dynamism in Wales play and England were beginning to break up and make more mistakes”.

“It is quite a short turnaround to Fiji now, and we will lick our wounds”.

England may have to wait until as late as Monday morning to discover if Tom Wood will be cited for the incident that left Wales full-back Liam Williams unconscious at Twickenham on Saturday.

Along with a disbelieving Twickenham that reacted to a compelling match by generating one of the best atmospheres experienced at the home of English rugby, second row Geoff Parling questioned how victory became defeat.

They said: “It’s been absolutely fantastic”. Even going in to the game, people knew that we had some world-class players missing.

After four successive runners-up finishes in the RBS 6 Nations, England ended the biggest match of Lancaster’s tenure aghast at yet another near-miss having led Wales by 10 points with half an hour remaining.

“These lads are so dedicated and so professional in everything that they do”.

Winger George North moved into midfield and back-up scrumhalf Lloyd Williams popped up on the left wing to produce the defining moment of the game, his burst and kick allowing Gareth Davies to score under the posts.

“It’s knockout rugby now… everything has to go into beating Australia now”. It’s the same in life.

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

“We didn’t come into this competition, after the bitterness from 2011 (World Cup semi-final exit), just to beat England”. We spoke beforehand about leadership, about responsibility and about how if you want something badly enough it can happen for you.The pleasing thing was that I felt we were the stronger team in the last 10 or 15 minutes.Paul Deacon played alongside a 17-year-old Sam Burgess when he debuted with Bradford Bulls -and later coached the Yorkshireman as he turned into the greatest rugby league player on the planet.It’s sink or swim time for the ex-Rabbitohs man.Who will win this game?