World Cup 2022

@ivoralljack ... you wanted Moore to start. Here he is. It's an attacking line-up. Do we have enough muscle in midfield - Joe looks a little lonely.

After watching Nadal nail another French Open victory I’m pumped to see if our bunch of seniors can rise to the occasion and lead us into the finals.

There a lot of Ukrainians in the crowd - wow

introduced them all to the Welsh on mass in fine voice.

Can't wait for this. I just hope that we put sentiment on the backburner because we've thrown away/ been cheated from the World and European cup appearances too often in the past. Current affairs must be put to one side and the job done today. That said, if we do manage to win it's a crying shame that Ukraine won't be there because that country deserves every lift it can get in these dark days; but if they do beat Wales today there'll be no bitterness from me and I'll be cheering them on in the finals.

It'll be a tough task for Wales today because Ukaine have a very good team. They're physically strong and technically very good. However, overall they are short on football yet might not have fully recovered from the Scotland game. If Wales have prepared properly they should just edge the match and must pepper Ukraine's dodgy keeper all game. Work him enough and the goals could come. Hoping for 2-1.

Yankee_Jack said:

There a lot of Ukrainians in the crowd - wow

introduced them all to the Welsh on mass in fine voice.

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The FAW gave several hundred tickets to Ukrainian refugees located in Wales.

Joe gets a yellow
James mouths off and also gets a yellow
Ref is going to be a wild won

Does anybody remember the match at Ninian Park against Yugoslavia in the 70s, What a colossal match that was with some crazy moments involving that ref

Bale kick forces own goal deflection

Allen having a massive game in midfield

Allen is anchoring the geriatric midfield of himself, Bale and Ramsey. And having to get through a ton of work doing it

Interesting half with Ukraine showing that they're way way better than us technically and, imo, they are a better team. Bit of luck with the deflected goal but Moore was moving in on the trajectory and might well have got a strike on goal.

We'll have to do better second half and I'd like to see us pressure their keeper more but our crosses haven't had enough quality so far. Joe working hard but he's much slower these days and been caught in possession a couple of times - he was also lucky not to concede a penalty.

Don't know if it's me and I know the pich is wet and slippy but we seem to be sliding and slipping far more than the Ukraine players. This game is far from over and we need to up our game otherwise our wait for a major finals is going to go on.

So far so good, but Ukraine are a better team.

Ramsay is a wanker in his old age - what a miss

Yankee_Jack said:

Ramsay is a wanker in his old age - what a miss

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Not only a miss, in the next attack he overlooked Bale who was alone in the Ukraine box

We need to sub out Ramsey soon and put some fresh young legs alongside Allen

We can try Matondo for Moore to change it up and put some additional speed up front

Brennan for James.

James off …. That’s nuts

For all practical purposes Ramsey has been playing low Championship L1 football in Scotland for Rangers

Johnson drills the post wow

And Bale should've scored