Wales U20s snatched victory from the jaws of defeat to claim a hard-fought 35-25 victory over Spain U20s in Verona.
Richard Whiffin's side were staring down the barrel of what would have been an embarrassing defeat at half-time but they regained their composure to edge out impressive Spain. Wales must now wait on other results to determine whether they enter the 5th-8th placed play-offs or the 9th-12th placed play-offs of the World Rugby U20s Championship.
If they were to drop into the 9th-12th section then relegation to the second-tier World Rugby Trophy would be the worst case scenario.
Wales had to dig deep to overcome Spain with tries from Evan Wood, Caio James, Sion Davies and Jack Woods along with a penalty try enough to claim a bonus point victory.
Oriol Marsinyac Garcia, Liam McNamee and Manex Pujana Lendinez claimed Spain's tries.
Nicolas Infer opened the scoring for Spain from the kicking tee but Wales hit back when Ellis Price sliced through the defence before offloading to Ellis Lewis.
Spain were forced to concede a penalty which prompted Wales to go for the corner and set up a strong driving lineout which resulted in a penalty try.
To rub further salt into Spanish wounds Guardin Gonzalez Ciscar got sent to the sin bin for illegally sacking the lineout.
The Wales backs looked very good and they should have scored a second but Aidan Boshoff ignored an unmarked man on his outside in the Spain 22.
But they were playing penalty advantage with Lewis taking it quickly before the ball was knocked on just short of the try line.
Wales claimed their second try soon after when Wood powered over from short-range off the back of another strong driving lineout.
But Spain clicked into gear as their backs proceeded to rip Wales to
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