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WALES 0 v BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA 0
Cardiff City Stadium

Friday 10th Oct 2014

19:45 kick off

Updated 10th Oct 2014

Wales team : (3-5-2) Hennessey, Gunter, A Williams, Chester, Davies, Taylor, Ledley, King, J Williams, Bale, Church.





The likely line-ups
Wales (5-4-1): Hennessey (Crystal Palace); Gunter (Reading), Chester (Hull), A Williams (Swansea, Capt), Davies (Tottenham), Taylor (Swansea);Ledley (Crystal Palace), King (Leicester), Bale (Real Madrid), Robson-Kanu (Reading); Church (Charlton).


Bosnia (4-1-3-2): Begovic (Stoke); Vrsajevic (Hadjuk Split), Sunjic (Kuban Krasnador), Besic (Everton), Lulic (Lazio); Hadzic (Sturm Graz); Susic (Hadjuk Split), Pjanic (Roma), Prcic (Rennes); Dezeko (Man City, Capt), Ibisevic (Stuggart)

Team news
Wales are without a total of 10 players through injury, the absence of Aaron Ramsey, Joe Allen and Emyr Huws the most noticeable with the middle of the park significantly weakened as a result. It could force Coleman into a tinkering of tactics with a five-man defence not something that can be ruled out.

David Edwards could return while Hal Robson-Kanu is available after missing the Andorra outing through injury and whether he plays as part of a frontline depends on Coleman’s choice with Simon Church and Jonathan Williams the others in contention.




My Guess

Wales 2 Bosnia 1
Crowd 27,780


Over 27,000 Tickets Sold


Chris Coleman’s first three picks are missing after Emyr Huws joined Ramsey and Allen on the sidelines yesterday. Joe Ledley, Andy King and Dave Edwards are just going to have to come in and step up to the plate, provide the foundation from which Bale can flourish.

Wigan midfielder Emyr Huws out of Wales squad.

Manager Chris Coleman is now without 10 players for the crucial match in Cardiff on Friday, 10 October, but believes his squad has the strength to cope.
"Whoever we have, the players are good enough," he said.
Amidst the injury headaches, Coleman does have Real Madrid star Gareth Bale available, with the winger hoping Wales can make history.
Meanwhile Coleman has confirmed Huws is to have a scan on his ankle injury.
Wales beat Andorra 2-1 in their opening game and face Cyprus in Cardiff on Monday, 13 October.


Bosnia-Herzegovina‘s national football team is set to take on Wales today 20:45, at Cardiff City Stadium, in Wales. Safet Susic’s men lost their opening EURO2016 qualification match to Cyprus 1-2 at home in Zenica, while the Welsh drew victory from Andorra away from home. Now the Bosnian team is looking to strip points from Gareth Bale and the Welsh Dragons, quite a task.


Bosnia started off with a shock defeat to Cyprus.

Wales started off their campaign with an away win at Andorra.


WALES v BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
Cardiff City Stadium

Friday 10th Oct 2014

19:45 kick off


TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

Wales squad named for the match v Bosnia.

Wales squad:
Goalkeepers:
Wayne Hennessey (Crystal Palace)
Kyle Letheren (Dundee)
Owain Fon Williams (Tranmere Rovers)

Defenders:
James Chester (Hull City)
Joe Walsh (Crawley Town)
Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur)
Declan John (Cardiff City)
Danny Gabbidon (Cardiff City)
Chris Gunter (Reading)
Samuel Ricketts (Wolves)
Neil Taylor (Swansea City)
Rhoys Wiggins (Charlton Athletic)
Ashley Williams (Swansea City)

Midfielders:
David Cotterill (Birmingham City)
David Edwards (Wolves)
Gwion Edwards (Crawley Town)
Emyr Huws (Wigan Athletic)
Andy King (Leicester City)
Joe Ledley (Crystal Palace)

Forwards:
Gareth Bale (Real Madrid)
Simon Church (Charlton Athletic)
Tom Lawrence (Leicester City)
Hal Robson-Kanu (Reading)
Jake Taylor (Reading)
George Williams (Fulham)
Jonathan Williams (Crystal Palace - on loan at Ipswich Town).

less then 200 left we to blocks of the upper tier still yet to open

ill say 29,342 :

30,070 and Wales to win 2-0

0-3

0-3

You think they are going to let us down once again, they always have in the past.

Wales 1 Bosnia 1

Attendance 250,000 going on Corkys posts.

0-2

shame could have been different with ramsey and allen. The midfield is awful without them unfortunately

Wales 1 Bosnia 1

Attendance 250,000 going on Corkys posts.

Should be pretty loud then

Wales 1 Bosnia 1

Attendance 250,000 going on Corkys posts.

Should be pretty loud then

Very

Is that a new world record

Over 25,000 tickets now sold

Over 25,000 tickets now sold

Another 225,000 to go.
No problem.

1-1 draw with a 31,000 crowd

I just cant see Wales keeping them out

Also apart from Bale who will score ?

3-1 to Wales
31,927

1-2 and 28,631

0-3 , 29,392

We never beat Yugoslavia, and, I think, have only beaten Montenegro at home from the countries that came from the fall of Yugoslavia.

29,206.

Wales 1-1 Bosnia. I'd take a draw, but only as long as we beat Cyprus.

Wigan midfielder Emyr Huws out of Wales squad.

Emyr Huws is out of Wales' squad for the Euro 2016 qualifier against Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The 21-year-old Wigan midfielder was struggling with an ankle injury before joining the squad.


Manager Chris Coleman is now without 10 players for the crucial match in Cardiff on Friday, 10 October, but believes his squad has the strength to cope.
"Whoever we have, the players are good enough," he said.
Amidst the injury headaches, Coleman does have Real Madrid star Gareth Bale available, with the winger hoping Wales can make history.
Meanwhile Coleman has confirmed Huws is to have a scan on his ankle injury.
Wales beat Andorra 2-1 in their opening game and face Cyprus in Cardiff on Monday, 13 October.



Wales Injury list:
Aaron Ramsey (hamstring), Joe Allen (Knee), David Vaughan (hamstring), Emyr Huws (ankle), James Collins (groin), Lee Evans (hamstring), Sam Vokes (knee), Andrew Crofts (knee), Adam Matthews (groin), Paul Dummett (hamstring)
The injury to Huws leaves Coleman's squad severely weakened in midfield with Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey, Liverpool's Joe Allen and Nottingham Forest's 38-times capped David Vaughan already ruled out.
Former Swansea City player Allen has not played for Liverpool since suffering a knee injury in Wales' win in Andorra on 9 September, since when it is believed he had a double hernia operation.
Defender James Collins missed the opening Euro 2016 qualifier in Andorra with a groin problem and has not recovered.
Goalkeepers: Wayne Hennessey (Crystal Palace), Kyle Letheren (Dundee), Owain Fon Williams (Tranmere Rovers).
Defenders: James Chester (Hull City), Declan John (Cardiff City), Joe Walsh (Crawley Town), Ben Davies (Tottenham), Danny Gabbidon (Cardiff City), Chris Gunter (Reading), Samuel Ricketts (Wolves), Neil Taylor (Swansea City), Rhoys Wiggins (Charlton), Ashley Williams (Swansea City).
Midfielders: David Cotterill (Birmingham City), David Edwards (Wolves), Gwion Edwards (Crawley Town), Andy King (Leicester City), Joe Ledley (Crystal Palace).
Forwards: Gareth Bale (Real Madrid), Simon Church (Charlton), Tom Lawrence (Leicester City), Hal Robson-Kanu (Reading), Jake Taylor (Reading), George Williams (Fulham), Jonathan Williams (Crystal Palace).

28,642, 2-1 Wales

Our midfield looks poor hope we win

27,000 AND RIDING FOR TOMORROW
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Our midfield looks poor hope we win

Ledley and King will play (both Premier League midfielders), but I just hope that Coleman resists the temptation to pick a more conservative choice in David Edwards, and that he picks Jonny Williams.

The rest of the teams picks itself, really. The only debatable position is left-back, where Ben Davies may replace Neil Taylor(which I would like to see, though I'm guessing that Coleman will select Taylor, given that he's actually getting game time for his club).

European Qualifiers: Safet Susic says Bosnia will not target Wales star Gareth Bale

Bosnia-Herzegovina coach Safet Susic insists his side will not rough up Wales star Gareth Bale in their European Qualifier in Cardiff on Friday night.

Wales manager Chris Coleman has called for his Real Madrid talisman to get greater protection from referees after Bale was singled out for some rough-house tactics in the opening European Championship qualifier in Andorra last month.

But Susic said he has no plans to man-mark Bale at the Cardiff City Stadium and insisted Bosnia would play within the rules of the game.

"There won't be special tasks in the squad," Susic said.

"We came as a team to play and take three points in a sportsmanlike fashion.
"There won't be any rough treatment or any rough kind of play.

"I do respect Gareth Bale as a great player and the most dangerous player from Wales.

"Of course he wants space to run freely but I won't sacrifice any player to run after him for 90 minutes."

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... areth-bale?

Wales 3-2 Bosnia
Bale (2), Williams
32,291

Safet Susic's side suffered a humiliating home defeat at the hands of Cyprus in their opening qualifier and the pressure will be on the visitors to find a response when they travel to Cardiff.

Bosnia, who were eliminated at the group stages of World Cup 2014 following a tame performance in Brazil, are available at 7/6 (2.17) with Unibet to win in Wales while the same firm go 9/4 (3.25) that Friday's tussle ends in stalemate.

Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko is almost certain to spearhead the attack for the visitors and the 28-year-old frontman should be in confident mood, having rediscovered his scoring touch in recent weeks.

Dzeko has notched four goals in his last four appearances for Manuel Pellegrini's men and Safet Susic will be hopeful that his talismanic striker can replicate that form in this one.

The City man is rated as a 19/5 (4.80) chance with Unibet to open the scoring in Cardiff and that price could well prove popular with punters.

Gareth Bale, of course, is likely to play a leading role if Wales are to secure victory and the Real Madrid man has been in fine form for the European champions thus far this term.

It should also be noted that the 25-year-old Welshman has scored seven goals in his last 10 appearances for his country - including that superb double in Andorra.

With that in mind, the 4/1 (5.0) quote from Unibet for Bale to break the deadlock on Friday night certainly appears to be generous.

1-3
28780

2-1 Wales
28,500

Chris Coleman’s first three picks are missing after Emyr Huws joined Ramsey and Allen on the sidelines yesterday. Joe Ledley, Andy King and Dave Edwards are just going to have to come in and step up to the plate, provide the foundation from which Bale can flourish.