Portugal makes its first Rugby World Cup appearance in 16 years on Saturday against Wales in Nice. There are no survivors from 2007 but 13 of the matchday 23 play for clubs in France, though only one, hooker Mike Tadjer, for a Top 14 team, Perpignan.
Many of the Portuguese were part of teams which won the European Under-20s for three years in a row and reached the final of the second-tier World Rugby U20 Trophy in 2017 and 2019.Wales made 13 changes on Wednesday, three days after beating Fiji 32-26 and retained only No. 8 Taulupe Faletau and wing Louis Rees Zammit in the starting side.
Tshiunza is pinching himself that he’s at the World Cup playing, beside his Exeter clubmate Dafydd Jenkins in the second row. “It is very surreal at the moment, but after this tournament we will look back and be glad we did it together.”“They are kind of similar ... they play a lot of rugby, they’ve got some exciting players, they like to move the ball around, so we’ve kind of prepared almost in the same way we prepared against Fiji,” Gatland said.
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