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Hello everyone, welcome to ESPN's live coverage of the Six Nations opener between Wales and England. A spectacular light show bathes the Millennium in strobe... The anticipation grows with the stadium in darkness as the teams ready themselves to emerge...
Here they come. Chris Robshaw and England walk out to resounding jeers... And what a spectacle as Sam Warburton leads out the hosts as fireworks light up the night sky
A rousing rendition of God Save The Queen... now for Land of Our Fathers
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3 - 0 |
Penalty to Wales! Jonny May with the tackle and didn't roll away.
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Leigh Halfpenny lands it and Wales have the early 3-0 lead
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Good take from Halfpenny from Ford's kick
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Wales turnover on the halfway line and it's back in Welsh hands - they kick and fail to make the corner
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Good ground made by George Ford - England have their first line-out on the half-way line
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8 - 0 |
Wales attacking scrum on the five-metre line ... Wales are dangerous from this position, they tend to use George North on the inside ball
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10 - 0 |
TRY! Rhys Webb goes over on the blindside after good work from Faletau
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Halfpenny adds the extras and it's already 10-0...
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England going through the phases but not making much headway, held up on the Welsh 22
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England run out of ideas, though, and Mike Brown gets forced out into touch. Dan Biggar looks like he has a nasty nose injury... Water bottles come out as he's patched up
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Knock on from England at the lineout. Scrum down, Wales ball.
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10 - 5 |
England clocking up the handling errors with two already in the first 13 minutes. Scrum collapses, and England kick for the corner
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TRY! Cheeky grubber from Brown and Watson slides in to do the rest - but they're going upstairs! Is it two movements? TRY GIVEN!
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George Ford strikes the post! It remains Wales 10-5 England
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Great stuff there from Brown, last year's Six Nations player of the tournament - is he back in form?
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Ford's kick charged down, then recovering Brown is pushed out to touch
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Welsh lineout on the 22
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Youngs kicks out to touch and England can catch their breath
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13 - 5 |
Penalty to Wales - Cole uncharacteristically goes off his feet
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Halfpenny doesn't miss those - it's 13-5
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Brilliant from Biggar to reclaim the ball after another charge down
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Knock on and it's a white ball
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Penalty for collapsing scrum. England kick and a lineout at the 22
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Wales give away the penalty after Jamie Roberts tackles without the ball
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13 - 8 |
George North is down after taking a kick to the face. But he's on his feet now and saying he's OK. He goes off for a concussion check-up. Liam Williams (who many thought should have started at full-back after his MOTM performance against South Africa in the autumn internationals) is on
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George Ford slots a simple one from in front of the posts and the deficit is down to five points
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Penalty to Wales, not rolling away. Three from three for Halfpenny so far ... now it's three from four! He doesn't normally miss those...
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Scrum down, red ball, 22. North looks ready to come back on. England get penalised for turning and North is on
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Great take by Watson under pressure under pressure from North
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16 - 8 |
From Tom Hamilton in Cardiff: "It's all a little bit nervous. England are dominating possession but Wales are kicking better out of hand. Wales are winning the breakdown but Robshaw has been superb - he's made 10 tackles so far. Mike Brown the best player on the field."
Brown kicks straight down the throat of Halfpenny... Biggar ends the half with a drop goal to increase the lead to 16-8. England might be down and out here.
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We're back underway, England going through the phases
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16 - 13 |
Go for the drop goal?
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England looking for a way through, onto the 19th phase now...
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16 - 15 |
TRY! After 20 phases, Jonathan Joseph somehow wriggles his way through two tackles and goes over! Stands up Biggar with a step off the left foot, sells North a dummy.
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Ford adds the extras and the deficit is down to one point. "It's Swing Low that is ringing out now," says Tom Hamilton
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Penalty to Wales, Dylan Hartley not releasing and now England are under pressure
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Lineout not straight from Wales...
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Brown wriggles out of a couple of tackles and England have a penalty, Dan Lydiate off his feet
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For the lead, 45 metre kick.... Ford pulls it wide. Wales stay in front
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Scrum, red ball. Brown slices a horrible kick and Wales have the lineout on the 22
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Turned over by Marler and England clear
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Tom Youngs on for Dylan Hartley and Mako Vunipola on for Joe Marler. England penalised for collapsing scrum
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Poor kick but England get away with it, Dan Lydiate penalised for not rolling away
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16 - 18 |
Haskell looked nailed on for a try but ran straight into the post! ... Cuthbert has just been sin-binned for Wales
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Easy penalty for Ford to give England the lead. No problem.
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Wales a man down but they're eating up the clock at the scrum. Referee's having none of it and the hand goes up.
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England lineout but ball is dropped and then picked up. Comedy of errors
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England keep blowing their chances here, and the sin-bin clock is down to four minutes.
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England leading 18-16 - apologies to our users who may not see the correct score
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White put-in - George North knocks on under pressure
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Here come Mike Phillips and Charteris for Wales. Wigglesworth on for England
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Luther Burrell bursts through but Brown fails to handle his off-load. Another chance goes begging.
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Nick Easter is on! The 36-year-old makes his first appearance in an England shirt since 2011
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Brown pegs Wales back in their own 22 with a grubber into the corner
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Dave Atwood touches down for England! It's going upstairs ... was Nick Easter blocking? Try not awarded.
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Twelvetrees is on. Wales have five minutes to work their way down here
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Can England hold out here, or will the gap arrive for Wales?
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16 - 21 |
Penalty to England - Charteris not releasing! That looked a little dubious there..
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Can Ford land it from 45? He makes it - England lead 21-16 with a minute to go
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All England needed there were a couple of phases and then to kick it out but Wigglesworth kicks it back...
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Roberts gets wrapped up by the England defence, the ball isn't coming and the ref gives the advantage to England - that's it! England win 21-16.
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