Strong Wales to face Fiji

Despite the latest injury setbacks, defence coach Shaun Edwards said the whole country is still abuzz after the win.

Vunipola was one of England’s best performers against Wales, casting aside his error-strewn displays in the warm-up matches to rediscover the form he showed in the World Cup.

Scott Williams and Hallam Amos are set to be ruled out of the tournament after the former suffered a leg injury, while the latter with a shoulder injury.

Those in-game blows came on top of the pre-World Cup losses of vital men like Jonathan Davies, Leigh Halfpenny and Rhys Webb.

I’ve listened to Stuart Lancaster say for years that “I don’t have the leaders and therefore we’re having to make all the decisions as coaches”.

“I 100 per cent believe we can do that”.

The Welsh hero and South Africa wing JP Pietersen – scorer of three tries – were the individual stars on the most electrifying day so far of a World Cup that is keeping the fans on the edge of their seats with upset results and thrilling rugby. “If you go there you have got to nail it”.

“It was a great effort…They got on the outside of us and kicked the ball inside and it was a fairly good pick up to score”.

“I know the boys are gutted but collectively it’s more frustrating the number of penalties we gave away that allowed them to stay in the game”. “He has played some breathtaking rugby at 13, so that is one of our options. We have to sort out whatever we need to get right and then take it into the Fiji match”.

“There was definitely contact between part of Tom Wood’s body and Liam’s head”, Edwards said.

“If you look where we are, we have played two, won two, which is exactly where we wanted to be at this stage”. But we will make a comment on that later on. It is clearly obvious there was some contact with the head.

“It’s a real short turnaround – it’s just four days until we play Fiji“. I don’t think we will be resting too many players, but obviously that’s down to the boss.

“We have got to suck it up, realise why it happened, how it happened, get on with it and come out next week”, he told reporters.

“We’re very very aware of the fact we didn’t go into this competition after the bitterness from 2011 just to beat England”.

With his squad limping along, Gatland won’t be looking beyond Thursday.

It was a decision the led to criticism being levelled in Chris Robshaw’s direction but Youngs said the team will group together and refocus on Australia next weekend.

Speaking at a post-match press conference, Edwards who is English himself said: “I went to Mass this morning, and even the priest came out and put his hands up in the air to celebrate”.

Lancaster described the 78th-minute driving line-out that followed as “poorly executed”, and said he would review the team’s decision-making.