{"id":49883,"date":"2026-04-03T12:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/challenge-cup-wales-flanker-alex-mann-back-for-cardiffs-tough-benetton-tie\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:14:31","slug":"challenge-cup-wales-flanker-alex-mann-back-for-cardiffs-tough-benetton-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/challenge-cup-wales-flanker-alex-mann-back-for-cardiffs-tough-benetton-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Cup: Wales flanker Alex Mann back for Cardiff’s tough Benetton tie"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Benetton:<\/b> Smith; Ratave, Menoncello, Marin, Mendy; Umaga, Uren; Gallo, Bernasconi, Zilocchi, N Cannone, Ruzza, Zuliani, Lamaro (capt), L Cannone.<\/p>\n

Replacements: <\/i>Maile, Aminu, Pasquali Favretto, Fa’aso’o, Izekor, Garbisi, Odogwu.<\/p>\n

Cardiff:<\/b> I Lloyd; Grady, E Evans, B Thomas, Beetham; Sheedy, Bevan; Byrne, Belcher (capt), Assiratti, E Rees, Thornton, Mann, D Thomas, Lawrence.<\/p>\n

Replacements:<\/i> D Hughes, Barratt, Wainwright, de la Rua, E Lloyd, I Davies, Jennings, Winnett.<\/p>\n

Referee: Kevin Bralley (France)<\/p>\n

Assistant Referees: Pierre Bru & Flavien Hourquet (France)<\/p>\n

TMO: Julien Castaignede (France)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Benetton: Smith; Ratave, Menoncello, Marin, Mendy; Umaga, Uren; Gallo, Bernasconi, Zilocchi, N Cannone, Ruzza, Zuliani, Lamaro (capt), L Cannone. Replacements: Maile, Aminu, Pasquali Favretto, Fa’aso’o, Izekor, Garbisi, Odogwu. Cardiff: I Lloyd; Grady, E Evans, B Thomas, Beetham; Sheedy, Bevan; Byrne, Belcher (capt), Assiratti, E Rees, Thornton, Mann, D Thomas, Lawrence. Replacements: D Hughes, Barratt, Wainwright, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[2254,8625,2755,2814,805,13556,14469,3194,5065,312],"class_list":["post-49883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-alex","tag-benetton","tag-cardiffs","tag-challenge","tag-cup","tag-flanker","tag-mann","tag-tie","tag-tough","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49885,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49883\/revisions\/49885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}