International football: Wales/Cymru v Finland, Belarus and Estonia

Is tonights game online?

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Originally Posted by Pearcey3

Game time I suppose. Who will start on Sunday that is first choice? Ward, Ben Davies, Bale, James. Anyone else?
Are Mepham and Allen available?

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If bale gets injured here Page needs to be sacked

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Originally Posted by tforturton

Is tonights game online?

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S4C website

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Originally Posted by WJ99mobile

If bale gets injured here Page needs to be sacked

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Just about to say I cannot believe he has brought him on. Idiotic.

Thought we played well this evening, created a few good chances and were the better team overall.

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Originally Posted by Freitag 4.17

Just whacked 38p on Wales to win 1-0 @ 3/1 - Shitting bricks.

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Never mind, I know a couple of geezers who had £100 each on dead cert Finland to win at 19/10 :hehe:

Yes we played some decent football and better to miss the chances tonight than on Sunday but I suspect it could be just as frustrating in front of goal against Belarus as it was tonight. I think Bale was just upping his cap count, you can’t question his commitment

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Originally Posted by MacAdder

Never mind, I know a couple of geezers who had £100 each on dead cert Finland to win at 19/10 :hehe:

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Gutted, that's what remained of my budget for the week.. Thought we performed OK- Think we'll smash the shit out of Belarus, hope their bellend of a president is there to witness it.

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Originally Posted by Pearcey3

Paul. Trust me. I can wait!

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:hehe:

We're starting to see good performances from Levitt and Smith and saw why friendlies are so important: our front three looked like they had never played together before because, well, they hadn't.

Still like Tyler Roberts but he's not a striker and looks so much better when wide or as a 10.

I want us studying Liverpool and Man City to see how to open up teams when player with smaller attackers - pace and clever movement as in our goal away against Belgium recently - rather than just waiting for Moore to come back in.

That again is something that comes in when our players build up connections, a la Bale and Ramsey to open up Turkey, and it's coming but not here yet.

Least important game of the three of course.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

A look ahead to Belarus: https://welshfootballfans.com/eatsle...yy-gmxjn-bbgbs

Belgium and the Czech Republic both won as expected tonight adding even more pressure to win the next 2 qualifiers

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Originally Posted by Don Corleone

Belgium and the Czech Republic both won as expected tonight adding even more pressure to win the next 2 qualifiers

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https://www.eticketing.co.uk/fawtickets-english/

Get your tickets here :thumbup: Best thing to do is to get down the CCS and help cheer on the team.

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Originally Posted by Don Corleone

Belgium and the Czech Republic both won as expected tonight adding even more pressure to win the next 2 qualifiers

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Czech Republic only beat Belarus 1-0 as well - we'll do well to win on Sunday.

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Originally Posted by Kind of Blue

Belarus game becoming a farce. Are there no grounds in Kaliningrad to make it a little bit less travel intensive if it has to be in Russia?

Also I presume they have to use a Russian venue rather than somewhere a bit more convenient given Belarus’ relative international relations in Europe or they’re worried about players not going back à la that Belarusian lass at the Tokyo olympics?

Fairplay we’ve been given the runaround by Uefa with venues recently.

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I think the reason UEFA have given us the runaround is because we put their nose out of place reaching the Euro semi's

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Originally Posted by Talksport

I think the reason UEFA have given us the runaround is because we put their nose out of place reaching the Euro semi's

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don't be so daft.

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Originally Posted by Talksport

I think the reason UEFA have given us the runaround is because we put their nose out of place reaching the Euro semi's

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****ing hell :hehe:

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/soci...y-and-respect/

What a load of bollocks.

How in anyway is this a fair competition.

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Wales Under 18s
Plans for October and November
The Under 18 squad are set to meet up next month again, with an invitation to play France in the pipeline. Also in November participation in a nations tournament (Spain), Number of teams to be confirmed
Details to be confirmed by the FA Wales

https://dragonsoccer.co.uk/newsite/i..._from=&ucat=1&

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Good news expected :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by surge

Our game against Belarus just got that bit harder...

Original defenders picked for the squad: Gunter, Ben Davies, Ampadu, Mepham, Rodon, Neco Williams, Lockyer, Lawrence, Norrington-Davies

Joe Rodon and Neco Williams injured and pull out, Ethan Ampadu and Brandon Cooper (replacement called up) unable to get visas for Russia. Tyler Roberts also out due to visa issues.

Will have to knuckle down and win the game anyway but so far this re-arranged fixture has meant i) greater distance to travel, ii) greater admin cost and iii) players unable to go.

- 1st up is Finland: Wednesday 1 September 2021 \ 19:00
- 2nd is Belarus: Sunday 5 September 2021 \ 14:00
- 3rd is Estonia: Wednesday 8 September 2021 \ 19:45 (tickets:https://www.faw.cymru/en/news/ticket...mru-v-estonia/)

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Is that our name now? Wales/Cymru?

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Gareth Bale on Wales' game against Belarus being moved to Kazan in Russia:

“I was disappointed the neutral venue wasn’t Wembley – everything else seems to be there!”

https://twitter.com/DafPritchard/sta...68711732826115

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Sassy Bale is the best :hehe:

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Originally Posted by Joe Gillis

Is that our name now? Wales/Cymru?

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Well it is our country's name in our country's native language :sherlock:

If forced to choose between the two, I'd go with Cymru, besides that - didn't realise just how decimated our squad was for this game, might be tricky - grab your boots lads, TIT we're going to need a coach pronto!

My Welsh team for today;-

Ward

Gunter
Lockyer
Lawrence
Davies

Allen
Smith
Levitt

Johnson/Colwill (think I'd just go with Johnson if pushed)
Bale (on the right if Colwill plays and a false number nine if it's Johnson)
James

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Ward

Gunter
Mepham
Lawrence
Davies

Allen
Morrell

James
Bale
Johnson

Colwill

https://twitter.com/Cymru/status/143...336327/photo/1

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That's my guess as how we'll line-up with announced team. I was expecting to see Levitt or Smith in the side as they gave us some go forward against Finland but they can come off the bench.

This is shocking defending

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Originally Posted by Pearcey3

This is shocking defending

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WTF was Gunter doing?

It'll be tough from here. Even if we score 2 we've gotta keep em out!

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Originally Posted by Pearcey3

This is shocking defending

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Abject with a capital A😠

At least it isn't 3-1

Jesus.

That goal has knocked the stuffing out of us.

I thought there was a lot of support for playing with kids.

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Originally Posted by Joe Gillis

Is that our name now? Wales/Cymru?

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Crazy loco

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Originally Posted by WJ99mobile

Jesus.

That goal has knocked the stuffing out of us.

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Even before the goal and though they'd done f all to threaten our defensive set up looked a mess - no pace, no organisation and over confident. Gunter has been a great servant but WTF was he doing. He's only there because of his experience and he commits a school boy error or just plain stupidity and .the 2nd goal.... Grrrrr

Page being out done tactically again. Need some second half with lack of options of the bench

1. Pitch isn't helping us pass it around. I initially thought it was 3G because we've not looked this bad since Andorra away.

2. Gunter is far, far too experienced to be making that mistake. He's defended well against France (pre-Euros friendly) and in Rome but that was a shocker.

3. We conceded twice away against Croatia with Lawrence and Mepham as a back two and, if memory serves me, one was a similar goal. Not enough pace to play as a two?

4. Regardless of what happens now, it's still so important to get as many people down the CCS on Wednesday.

5. Colwill's played okay. Small positives, eh?

Can’t see us scoring

Lawrence looks out of his depth against the pace of the opposition forwards

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Originally Posted by PontBlue

Lawrence looks out of his depth

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Fixed for you

I'd really like James to use his left foot