{"id":289921,"date":"2023-09-25T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T08:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=289921"},"modified":"2023-09-25T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T08:20:42","slug":"gatland-insists-wales-will-remain-grounded-after-thrashing-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/gatland-insists-wales-will-remain-grounded-after-thrashing-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gatland insists Wales will remain grounded after thrashing Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Warren Gatland insists Wales will not get ahead of themselves after thrashing Australia to seal their spot in the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, as he hails his team&#8217;s &#8216;clinical&#8217; display<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wales thrashed Australia on Sunday night to make it three wins from three<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The victory sealed their place in the quarter-finals of the tournament<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mail Sport&#8217;s new WhatsApp Channel: Get the breaking news and exclusives here<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Latest Rugby World Cup 2023 news, including fixtures, live scores and results<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Warren Gatland says Wales will not start looking further down the track than necessary after they cruised into the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals with a record 40-6 win against hapless Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Wales made it three successive victories in Pool C, leaving Eddie Jones&#8217; team close to group-stage elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Gatland&#8217;s men are guaranteed to top the group if they defeat Georgia next month, setting up a likely quarter-final clash against Argentina in Marseille.<\/p>\n<p>But Gatland said: &#8216;We haven&#8217;t looked past anything yet, it has been one game at a time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Australia came into this game feeling confident about winning. We felt confident to produce a performance today. I thought we were clinical.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/08\/75801437-12556991-image-a-24_1695626661491.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wales hammered Australia on Sunday night to book their place in the World Cup quarter-finals<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/08\/75801435-12556991-image-a-25_1695626692327.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Warren Gatland praised his team&#8217;s &#8216;clinical&#8217; display, but is adamant the players will not get ahead of themselves<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/08\/75801433-12556991-image-a-26_1695626729388.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s win was particularly sweet for Gatland as he got one over his old adversary Eddie Jones (left)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Our focus will be on Georgia, a team we lost against in the autumn (last year).<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We need to rectify that and we need to make sure we don&#8217;t drop our standards. I think these players are well aware of that &#8211; they have worked incredibly hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have put a lot of work in the last four months as a team together. We are a momentum team, we build on confidence in terms of performances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Today was an outstanding performance in terms of what we wanted to achieve. We were blowing a bit at half-time, but I thought we went out and controlled the second half fantastically well.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Wales overcame the early loss of injured fly-half Dan Biggar to boss Australia in every key department and coast home through tries from scrum-half Gareth Davies, centre Nick Tompkins and captain Jac Morgan, while Biggar, who kicked an early conversion, saw his replacement Gareth Anscombe boot 23 points.<\/p>\n<p>It was Wales&#8217; record win against Australia, overtaking a 25-point margin in 1975, and former England boss Jones will be left to face the music as the Wallabies lurch towards World Cup oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>On Biggar, Gatland added: &#8216;Dan has stretched his pec. I haven&#8217;t spoken to the medics, but I spoke to Dan and they are saying it is probably a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have got 13 days&#8217; break before we take on Georgia, so that potentially rules him out of that match, just to recover. It&#8217;s not a significant injury, just a pec strain.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/08\/75801355-12556991-image-a-19_1695626379327.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gatland played down concerns about Dan Biggar after the fly-half suffered a pec strain\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/08\/75801371-12556991-image-a-20_1695626445130.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Biggar&#8217;s replacement Gareth Anscombe (pictured) proved he is an able deputy by kicking 23 points on Sunday night<\/p>\n<p>Anscombe, who landed six penalties, a drop-goal and conversion after going on for Biggar in the 12th minute, said: &#8216;We talked a lot this week about family and the people we care about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We talk about the red wall, and to concede only six points against Australia is just remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Dan Biggar means so much to this team, and I knew I had to just come on and do my role, and that was all I was focused on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The boys were really calm and we got off to a really good start. Our boys up-front were outstanding, they dominated the set-piece and I was just able to keep rolling forward.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12556991\/Warren-Gatland-insists-Wales-not-ahead-thrashing-Australia-seal-spot-Rugby-World-Cup-quarter-finals-hails-teams-clinical-display.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Warren Gatland insists Wales will not get ahead of themselves after thrashing Australia to seal their spot in the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, as he <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/gatland-insists-wales-will-remain-grounded-after-thrashing-australia\/\" title=\"Gatland insists Wales will remain grounded after thrashing Australia\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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