{"id":13029,"date":"2005-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=13029"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"wales-lose-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2005\/09\/07\/wales-lose-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales Lose Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Wales Lose Again<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a name=\"TopOfPage\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.888.com?sr=365203\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wales slipped embarrassingly to the bottom of their group tonight as a second half penalty was enough to give Poland all three points and Azerbaijan holding Austria meant Wales moving to the bottom with just 2 points from their eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s win is enough to seal their trip to Germany next summer although they need a point from their game against England next month to win the group.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now six defeats on the bounce for Wales in the group &#8211; two under former manager Mark Hughes (England and Poland) whilst Toshack has suffered the indignity of defeats to Austria (twice), England and now Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Next month Wales will close their miserable qualifying with games against Azerbaijan in Cardiff and Northern Ireland in Belfast. One win is needed to ensure that they don&#8217;t finish bottom.<\/p>\n<p>However, the chances of finishing above the Irish are over after they recorded a famous victory over England in Belfast. A David Healy goal was enough to send the English to a shock defeat leaving them needing two wins to win the group.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere for British sides, Scotland&#8217;s faint hopes were kept alive with a 2-1 win in Norway and although not quite British the Republic of Ireland were beaten 1-0 in Dublin by France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales Lose Again Wales slipped embarrassingly to the bottom of their group tonight as a second half penalty was enough to give Poland all three points and Azerbaijan holding Austria meant Wales moving to the bottom with just 2 points from their eight games. Poland&#8217;s win is enough to seal their trip to Germany next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}