Cardiff turns into a theatre of pain and leaves Wales facing an empty summer | Wales
Well, that’s one thing new no less than. And don’t fear. It solely takes about 30 years, a bit little bit of scar tissue, and maybe a mournful novelty tune to recover from it. Poland had 5 pictures on course all night time on the Cardiff Metropolis Stadium. Sadly for Wales all 5 got here within the penalty shoot out on the finish of two and a half hours of relentlessly draining Euro 2024 qualifying playoff soccer. Within the course of a primary ever aggressive shootout for Wales turned additionally a primary ever defeat by that almost all knuckle-biting of margins. It fell to Dan James to contribute the decisive miss at 5-4 down, all the time the worst option to lose on this self-contained theatre of ache. The kick felt incorrect from the second James lined it up. The run was too brief. There may be that feeling, in these moments, of a footballer all of a sudden cramped in their very own area, the radar beginning to bleep, the dials whirring, the day beginning to slide the incorrect method. Wojciech Szczesny didn’t actually have to reserve it, simply stay within the path of…