14-men Wallabies lose thriller to Wales
The ill-disciplined and luckless Wallabies have been punished once last time on their wretched European tour, their 14 men going down 29-28 to Wales in a stop-start, bad-tempered but ultimately thrilling affair at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.
Just as against Scotland and England, Australia were let down by offering up too many foolish penalties, with Rob Valetini's red card for a high head tackle after just 15 minutes doing most to condemn them to a fruitless Saturday evening (Sunday morning AEDT) at the Principality Stadium.
Yet, amazingly, the short-handed Wallabies thought they might even have snatched an incredible win when Kurtley Beale kicked a 78th minute penalty to put them ahead.
But in one last-ditch attack, hailed by a deafening 68,112 crowd, Australia infringed one last time under pressure near their own line to give away the decisive penalty, which was kicked nervelessly by Welsh replacement Rhys Priestland with the last shot of the game in the 82nd minute.
Australia had even been reduced to 13 during the first-half when Beale also spent 10 first-half minutes in the bin.
It meant Dave Rennie's side have suffered the ignominy of being the first Australia team to fail to win a Test on a European tour for 45 years.
It was a doubly frustrating evening for the Wallabies as they produced some of their best attacking rugby of the tour with three tries from Andrew Kellaway, Nic White and Filipo Daugunu, outdoing two from Wales through Ryan Elias and Nick Tompkins.
