England can’t make excuses with Wales in the semi-finals…..
From Rhys Jaggar :
As usual, after England exit, everyone has solutions. Excuses. Things/people to blame.
Think on this: lots of Welsh players are squad players in average EPL teams or Championship teams. They only have 3 at top teams, Ashley Williams at Swansea and Hennessy at Palace. The rest? Smaller clubs.
They didn’t fluke a win, they beat the number two team in the world fair and square. Showed them how to win a football match. Played as a team. Took their chances.
So if you hear Wayne Rooney, Raheem Sterling et al making excuses ever again, just give them two words: Wales 2016.
No bloody excuses England. None.
Pick a goddamn team in future. Not 23 individuals.
Hire a manager who knows how they want to play, picks a squad to play that way and has no problems telling Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, City, or any other club ‘stars’ that they aren’t good enough, their attitude isn’t good enough, they don’t fit the system, whatever.
Wales now have to beat Portugal without Aaron Ramsey:.Seems harsh that there wasn’t an amnesty – 2 bookings in 5 games is hardly criminal, is it? Those are the rules, I guess….
Bale vs Ronaldo.…I know who my money would be on between those two..
Perhaps Renato Sanches will be the key person Wales have to stop?
Myles says:
Chris Coleman looked very uptight before the game. His voice sounded different, more tense.
That’s natural. This was a megamatch, the biggest game Wales have played since 1958. And all managers are visibly stressed before a game, let alone a huge game.
Coleman almost resigned six years ago when Wales lost 6-1 to Serbia.
But now we find that that this gifted Belgian side can’t beat Wales in three games. Wales won one and drew the other in their Qualifying Group and won 3-1 in Lille tonight after conceding an early goal. Passion, organisation, pulsating drama, lots of chances at both ends.
The best team won on a uniquely mental evening at Palmer Mansions, where we had unprecedented 90 minutes of squealing and screaming by Mrs Palmer, an Oxford-born member of the Jones tribe.
Nervous before the kick-off, after 8 minutes Jan was already saying , ” I don’t think I can do 90 minutes of this.”
She enjoys rugby when Wales play well but I’ve never seen my wife hiding her face behind a cushion until tonight.
At 55 minutes and 1-1, Jan was shouting “Yes!”before Hal Robson-Kanu had turned round with the ball from Ramsey’s cross, long before he took that shot.
After sub Sam Vokes made it 3-1 with a brilliant header,showing Lukaku how to do it, she went bonkers and soon after the final whistle Jan even started claiming Wales can get to the final : “I think Belgium is a better side than Portugal, don’t you? But we won’t have Ramsey…..”
PS .Tomorrow I will write more about Wales.