Wales coach Warren Gatland conceded his side have to stop "pushing the self-destruct button" after their loss to France.
Wales coach proud of second-half fightback
Wales coach Warren Gatland conceded his side have to stop "pushing the self-destruct button" after losing 26-20 to France in the RBS Six Nations.
Alexis Palisson and Francois Trinh-Duc each scored a breakaway try as France opened a 20-0 half-time lead in front of a stunned full house at the Millennium Stadium.
Wales improved after the break and briefly threatened a repeat of their comeback victory over Scotland two weeks ago when two penalties from Stephen Jones were followed by a Leigh Halfpenny try.
But France, down to 14-men after Morgan Parra was sent to the sin-bin for deliberate off-side, weathered the storm to complete the third leg of a potential Grand Slam.
"I'm proud of the second-half performance," Gatland said.
"We were 20 points down, victims of our own intercepts, and we could have given it away but I'm proud of what we did in terms of coming back.
"The guys dug deep and put on a really good display in the second half.
"France never really threatened our line, they got two intercepts and kicked four penalties but never really got into our 22.
Mistakes
"We just have to stop pushing the self-destruct button. We have a few things to work on to make sure we don't make critical mistakes, but if we hadn't conceded soft tries in the first half it was a game for us to win."
Wing Shane Williams, whose late try was his 50th for Wales, added: "It was a bit of deja vu, the way we've started the last three games.
"It's very frustrating, sometimes you get punished for trying to play rugby.
"We try to play rugby, we started positive but two intercepts made it very difficult for us. Sometimes we try to play too much and it was all catch-up in the second half again."
