U20 Preview: Wales v Scotland

What they said

U20 Head Coach Fergus Pringle said: “We were a bit frustrated with some of our execution in the game against England, but our effort and work rate were there, for us it’s really just about taking what was positive ahead with us and into the Wales match on Friday night.

“They’ve had two close games, and we know they’re a quality side so we’ll have to be at our best, if we can build upon what we played last week and put in a really accurate and clinical performance then it’ll be another step forward.

“We’ve had some great support in both games we’ve played, there were a lot of parents out in Italy and we had 6,000 supporters with us at the Hive last week, so the credit goes fully out to the boys for creating some excitement and buzz so we’re looking forward to seeing some travelling support come Friday.”

The teams

The stats

• Sam Byrd and Alfie Blackett lead the breakdown stats with 59 and 56 attacking ruck entries respectively this season.
• Scotland won their previous encounter with Wales in a 27-12 win at the Hive to round off last years U20 Six Nations campaign.
• Rory McHaffie is currently tied for second highest try scorer of the tournament, he is neck-and-neck with Wales centre Steff Emanuel