UEFA Euro 2016 Group Stage B – Wales vs Slovakia
Game/Team Info
- Location: Stade de Bordeaux – Bordeaux 11/06/2016
- Group Stage: Group B
- Wales FIFA RANK: 26
- Slovakia FIFA RANK: 24
- Wales Bale scored early on the 10th minute via a penalty
- Slovakia was able to tie the game early in the second half
- Wales able to win game on a late 81th minute goal by Hal Robson-Kanu
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It was an early lead for Wales as Bale scored in the 10th minute of the game. It took another 50 minutes before Duda tied it for Slovakia but eventually Wales had the go-ahead goal from Robson-Kanu.
Manager Chris Coleman praised the impact of substitute and Wales’ winning goal scorer Hal Robson-Kanu
“Well, look, sometimes you make substitutions, sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. We needed to get further up the pitch. That’s what Hal gives us. He came on and he got in behind the defence, he got our defenders ten or twenty yards further up the pitch which meant it was away from our goal because they were there for too long, fifteen, twenty minutes on top of us. But we got out. We got a goal. We should, or could, have had one more, or two more. Overall, a fantastic performance.”
Slovakia midfielder Ondrej Duda —
“Of course I’m glad about the goal, but my feelings are not the same as if we’d won the match, or if it had been a draw, so it’s kind of strange, We were just lacking some luck, because they scored a goal where the player didn’t hit the ball properly, but unfortunately for us, it went in.”
Wales vs Slovakia Euro 2016 Video
WALES
- 21 Ward (G)
- 2 Gunter
- 3 N. Taylor
- 4 Davies
- 5 Chester
- 6 A. Williams (C)
- 7 Allen
- 10 Ramsey Substitution
- 11 Bale Goal
- 14 Edwards Substitution
- 20 J. Williams Substitution
SLOVAKIA
- Kozácik (G) 23
- Pekarík 2
- Škrtel (C) Yellow Card 3
- Durica 4
- Weiss Yellow Card Substitution 7
- Hrošovský Yellow Card Substitution 13
- Hamšík 17
- Švento 18
- Kucka Yellow Card 19
- Mak Yellow Card 20
- Duriš Substitution 21