The seconds run out at the Cardiff Millennium and the last English garrison falls.
The final rehearsal of Cory Hill arrives, the one who dethrons England, without options to revalidate his title in a Six Nations that Wales claims.
The unlikely leader of the first two days - defeating rivals who had made more merits with one less player - earned his status in the River Severn derby.
Only France, with a coronavirus outbreak that has forced its match against Scotland to be postponed today, is running as a rival.
England came to Cardiff with discipline as a pending challenge;
with three fouls in the first four minutes it was clear that they had not done their homework.
Wales were playing downhill and after the fifth English penalty stroke, Dan Biggar made a rogue play.
On the 10th he served fast and kicked to the left side so that Josh Adams, absent in the first two days after breaking anti-covid protocols, bagged the oval and rehearsed before the stunned English rear.
Their captain, Owen Farrell, energetically replied to the referee, an unusual scene in rugby: "You have to give us time to position ourselves!"
Wales take the veterans derby
Scotland represents its tragedy
France resists in Dublin and leads the Six Nations
Despite his bad start, the English always have the energy of Maro Itoje.
He anticipated a kick from scrum-half Kieran Hardy and blocked it on the spot.
To the rescue came defender Liam Williams to anticipate Itoje and return the beat to his partner.
The 15th Welshman brought the joy of a mark zone to the opposite.
Rees-Zammit wanted to pocket the assist, but the ball slipped away;
He didn't do it backwards, so it wasn't a fault.
The oval then hit Henry Slade's English legs, propelling him forward: into Williams' hands, who rehearsed despite Farrell's strong tackle.
Seconds later, the stick pushed Biggar's kick inward.
Fortune squared.
Against the ropes after just half an hour, England recovered their offensive arguments.
They increased the rhythm and percussion of their forwards, excellent ball carriers.
At those, the hefty Jamie George went out into the open and assisted Anthony Watson into rehearsal.
With Wales surprised, they came close to turning the game around in a transition that the home defense stopped with an offside with the time expired.
Thus ended a remarkable first part of rugby (17-14).
The XV de la Rosa did not learn the lesson of fast serves after passing through the changing rooms.
This time the rogue was Hardy, who brought out a punishing blow;
the English defense had to retreat quickly - the player cannot be touched in the next ten meters to the point where the foul is signaled - but the Welsh 9 found a motorway towards the test.
Ten up for locals.
England, who would administer to Wales its own medicine, noted.
The language of the meeting was English, risking with the game at hand and with Billy Vunipola back to a recognizable version.
Ben Youngs threatened to release the ball to keep it and hit the defense at the five-meter line.
Nobody expected it;
few medium-melés follow the canons more than Youngs.
So he rehearsed.
Tables with a quarter of an hour to go.
The last act began.
In the most tense hour, Wales answered gallantly;
three visits to English field and nine points for Callum Sheedy, who had replaced Biggar and exhibited precision with the foot.
English indiscipline returned at the worst moment: Itoje offside, Genge rushed into the
ruck
- the conquest phase - and Ewels knocked down the
maul's
platform from
the side.
One foul after another.
A quarter of an hour that serves as a paradigm for a stagnant selection that abandons its throne.
Italy comforts Ireland in their 30th straight defeat (10-48)
Ireland scored their first victory of the tournament in Rome.
The Celtic team dominated the match with their forward and the tactical leadership of captain Jonathan Sexton, absent against France.
The first test was signed by Gary Ringrose after a succession of charges from the lead;
the second started from a break through the middle of the powerful Hugo Keenan and the third, the most creative, came after a quick sequence down the left flank that Will Connors culminated.
Italy dismissed the first half with a creditable mark from Johan Meyer after a genius from his golden boy, Paolo Garbisi, releasing the ball while two rivals tried to tackle him.
The script had been fulfilled at halftime (10-27) and the Irish would secure the offensive bonus point with an early fourth rehearsal, the work of CJ Stander, which struck along the mark line.
The game of attrition of XV del Trébol exhausted Italy, victim of a cascade of indiscipline that left them five minutes with two less players.
Ireland closed the account with the time fulfilled in a fleeting pass from Sexton for the mark of Keith Earls.
The starter, who scored all of his kicks, converted the last one to beautiful spin.
Thus came the thirtieth defeat in a row in the tournament in Italy, which has not won since 2015.