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Katie Sands

The moment a Welsh pub erupted at the final whistle and summed up how every fan felt

Wales made it through to the Rugby World Cup semi-finals with a nerve-shredding performance against France in Oita today.

While hopes and confidence were high heading into the last-eight knock-out clash with Les Bleus, Warren Gatland's men didn't get off to a great start, at the wrong end of a 19-10 score at half time.

But a late second-half comeback saw Wales finally take the lead as Ross Moriarty went over for a hard-fought try, with the trusty boots of Dan Biggar adding the extras to give Wales a win by a single point in the 75th minute.

Fans watching inside Oita Stadium and back home in Wales will have been incredibly anxious and jittery, watching on in the early moments wondering if this would be the end of Wales' Rugby World Cup journey, only to be topped off by enormous relief as Wales dug deep to produce the goods.

Video footage of rugby fans watching the dying moments of the game in The Old Arcade in Cardiff nervously begin to celebrate moments before the final whistle goes, only to completely erupt once Wales were in the clear.

It sums up how every Welsh fan will have felt, perfectly.

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