Wales splattered Scotland like flies hitting a windshield in the first half at Murrayfield, but in the second the hosts were transformed and Warren Gatland’s were lucky to cling on
When it was all over, the wonder was that Wales got away with it. They may have been nine points up at half-time but they came under intolerable pressure afterwards and it seemed that they had to break before it. Scotland came at them with everything they had, on and on, again and again, and yet, somehow, at the end of it all, Wales were seven points clear and one game closer to winning the grand slam.
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