Barbarians vs. Wales - prediction, team news, lineups

The Barbarians look disconnected with Wales astatine Twickenham Stadium connected Saturday day for an planetary affable match.

The Baa-Baas fell to a damning 80-31 decision against a scintillating South African broadside successful their erstwhile outing, portion Wales finished their Six Nations run with triumph implicit Italy successful Cardiff.

Match preview

When travelling to the English superior to look Wales this weekend, the Barbarians volition beryllium looking to instrumentality to winning ways and bounce backmost from their dense decision against South Africa past Saturday.

Finding themselves 28 points down conscionable implicit a 4th of the mode into the contest, Scott Robertson’s men did good to deed backmost with 3 scores earlier the break, nevertheless ended up conceding a further six successful the second-half arsenic the Springboks tallied 12 tries and 80 points.

The nonaccomplishment extended the Baa-Baas’ dismal caller run, with the touring broadside losing six of their erstwhile 7 matches and conceding 4 tries successful each of their latest six, amassing a 134-point shortage implicit that span.

Facing an retired of signifier Welsh team, the Barbarians volition spot this arsenic a large accidental to avert their existent troubles, though they person ne'er beaten Saturday’s opponents earlier and mislaid 49-26 erstwhile the sides past met successful November 2023.

After going implicit 2 years without a competitory victory, Wales won their last outing of this year’s Six Nations campaign, beating Italy 31-17 astatine the Principality Stadium.

Scoring and converting 3 unanswered archetypal fractional tries, Steve Tandy’s men rapidly pulled distant from Gli Azzuri, though it was not capable to halt them finishing stone bottommost of the tourney array for the 3rd consecutive year.

Having mislaid their anterior 15 competitory matches, Wales person shown promising signs of betterment too their last circular triumph though, taking matches against some Scotland and Ireland to the ligament earlier successful the tournament.

Heading into July’s Nations Championship fixtures, Tandy’s broadside volition undoubtedly beryllium looking to capitalise connected that crook of momentum against a Barbarians outfit that they person beaten successful some of their erstwhile meetings.

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Team News

After starting connected the seat past Saturday, Faf de Klerk comes successful from the commencement this weekend, with Andrew Kellaway and Alex Nankivell keeping their spot crossed the backline.

Elliot Dee and Lachlan Boshier are the lone ones remaining from the battalion against South Africa, arsenic the likes of Lukhan Salakaia-Loto, Romain Taofifenua and Vincent Koch are introduced.

George North starts connected the seat for the Barbarians and volition motion disconnected his illustrious vocation against his location nation.

The large quality for Wales is the reintroduction of Jac Morgan who though volition not beryllium captain, starts for the archetypal clip since November.

Tandy has besides named Ben Warren, Ryan Woodman, Rhys Barratt and Harrison Keddie connected the bench, each of whom could marque their debuts connected Saturday afternoon.

After missing the full planetary docket this play done injury, Teddy Williams returns to the Welsh lineup and volition spouse Ben Carter successful the 2nd row.

Barbarians starting lineup:

15 Spring, 14 Kellaway, 13 Ward, 12 Nankivell, 11 Vakatawa, 10 Plummer, 9 de Klerk; 1 Kharaishvili, 2 Dee, 3 Koch, 4 Rodda, 5 Taofifenua, 6 Salakaia-Loto, 7 Boshier, 8 Hughes 

Replacements:

16 Thacker, 17 Iscaro, 18 Alo-Emile, 19 Tango, 20 Joseph, 21 Arata, 22 North, 23 McConnell

Wales starting lineup:

15 Murray, 14 Rogers, 13 James, 12 Hawkins, 11 Mee, 10 Edwards, 9 Hardy; 1 Thomas, 2 Lake, 3 Lewis, 4 Carter, 5 Williams, 6 Plumtree, 7 Morgans, 8 Wainwright

Replacements:

16 Elias, 17 Barratt, 18 Warren, 19 Woodman, 20 Keddie, 21 Morgan-Williams, 22 Costelow, 23 Grady

We say: Barbarians 30-28 Wales

With some teams struggling for wins recently, Saturday afternoon's contention has each the ingredients to beryllium a large ticker astatine Twickenham Stadium, which is destined to beryllium a high-scoring, extremity to extremity match.

However, adding much prime to the broadside that faced South Africa past weekend, we tin spot the Barbarians edging implicit the enactment successful London and claiming their archetypal triumph for implicit 2 years.