• Wales 10-14 Scotland
  • Wayne Pivac’s side have lost five games in a row

Scotland won the £500,000 match, the financial difference between finishing fourth and fifth, after dominating the breakdown and with it the penalty count. It was Wales’s fifth straight defeat, including last Saturday’s warm-up in Paris, and their worst championship campaign since 2007.

This was the sixth international held in Llanelli and the first at the home ground of the Scarlets. Scotland may lobby for their 2022 match to be played here because they have not won at the Principality Stadium since 2002. Wales needed a crowd to give them a lift with Scotland forcing the play for most of the match, but the ground resounded to echoes.

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