Wales was better eighths match with Northern Ireland, played in Paris, winning 1-0 (Gareth McAuley own goal 75). Thus, the “dragons” were qualified for the quarterfinals after they have had good performance in Group B, where they won by Slovakia (2-1, Gareth Bale 10 Hal Robson-Kanu 81 – Ondrej Duda 61) and Russia (3-0, Aaron Ramsey 12 Neil Taylor 20, Gareth Bale 67) and lost dramatically, with England (1-2, Gareth Bale 42 – Jamie Vardy 56, Daniel Sturridge 90 + 2). Welsh have a very good generation of players who will try to qualify for the semifinals. For them it is like a dream, given that there have never qualified before a European Championship and are now at 90/120 minutes of the semifinals! They had big players such as Ian Rush, Mark Hughes, Dean Saunders or Ryan Giggs, who made only performance at their club teams. Welsh was the only performance at the World Cup qualification in 1958 in Sweden, where they reached the quarterfinals. In his last three direct all official Wales has not lost to Belgium Chris Coleman so that players have nothing to fear “red devils”. It remains to be seen whether they will be able to eliminate one of the favorites of the tournament, especially not under pressure, having succeeded to pass the group stage and a knockout round.
As expected, Belgium eliminated from Euro smoothly Hungary in 2016, in a match in Toulouse, 4-0 (Toby Alderweireld 10 Batshuayi Michy 78, Eden Hazard and Yannick Carrasco 80 90 + 1). It was a very successful game of “red devils” who nevertheless have emerged only in the last ten minutes. In Group E, the Belgians began with a defeat against Italy (0-2, Emanuele Giaccherini 32, Graziano Pelle 90 + 3), then recovered them defeating Ireland (3-0 Romelu Lukaku 48, 70, Axel Witsel 61) and Sweden (1-0 Radja Nainggolan 84). So far Belgium has achieved a 3rd place at the European Championship in 1972. Now the country has a great generation of players that can get to the final on July 10 at Saint-Denis. According Netbet team coached by Marc Wilmots is clear favorite (1.76, 3.50, 5.20). Still it will not be an easy match, because “dragons” and they have a good stock, plus favorable record in the last 3 meetings. 2014 Brazil Cup, representative of Belgium was very well priced, but was stopped in the quarterfinals, being eliminated by Argentina. Now the players are under pressure because their fans come around 150,000, can not conceive of their favorites stumble and miss the Welsh semi-final against Portuguese or Polish.
Wales – Belgium LIVE STREAM / 01.07.2016
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