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Bale sets up both goals, Wales beats Turkey 2-0 at Euro 2020

(AP) — Gareth Bale made “We all turned up, we all put
sure his missed penalty in a great performance and I After the match, the team
didn’t matter by setting felt we deserved the victory,” gathered around their captain
up two goals. Bale said. “If you’d offered us for a rousing, emphatic vic-
four points (from two games) tory speech.
The Wales captain created at the start of the campaign
chance after chance in his we’d have bitten your hand Ramsey had two earlier
team’s 2-0 victory over Tur- off.” chances to score off passes
key on Wednesday at the Eu- from Bale before finally giv-
ropean Championship. Bale had a chance to score ing his team the lead. He
one himself in the 61st min- had one shot saved by the
Bale lofted a pass over the ute but he sent his penalty goalkeeper early and then
defense that Aaron Ramsey kick over the bar after being scooped the ball over the bar
chested down before knock- tripped by Zeki Çelik on the in the 24th when one-on-one
ing it past onrushing Turkey edge of the area. with Çakir.
goalkeeper Ugurcan Çakir
in the 42nd minute. Connor “I felt I played well all eve- “Third time lucky. I had a second half. He volleyed was sharply critical of his
Roberts scored the second ning. The penalty miss is my couple of opportunities, but over the bar from close range team on Roberts’ late goal,
in the final seconds of injury fault, of course I take respon- there’s nothing I could do when a corner was headed on blaming “a lack of attention”
time after Bale dribbled along sibility, but I think it shows about them,” Ramsey said. to him. after Bale had tried a similar
the touchline from a short the character,” Bale said. “I “Now we can go to Italy (for dribble from another corner
corner. kept going, I kept fighting the third game Sunday) full Turkey had strong support moments before.
away and I got the second as- of confidence and who knows from traveling fans and many
The win moved the Euro sist to kill off the game.” what can happen there.” locals in front of a crowd of “We are all sorry for this re-
2016 semifinalists closer to a nearly 20,000 in close ally sult,” Güneş said through
place in the last 16 with four The Wales captain hasn’t Turkey captain Burak Yilmaz Azerbaijan. The presidents of an interpreter. “We couldn’t
points in Group A. Turkey scored for his country in 13 had five shots but couldn’t both Turkey and Azerbaijan get any points from these
has zero points after losing games. His last goal came convert any of them, most were in attendance. two games so we are sorry.
both of its matches. against Croatia in Euro 2020 notably when he missed an This team could have played
qualifying in October 2019. excellent chance early in the Turkey coach Şenol Güneş much better than this.”

Russia beats Finland 1-0 for 1st points at Euro 2020

(AP) — With a slick one- cheers and jubilant chants Miranchuk’s superbly taken chuk was the standout player Finnish border to St. Peters-
two and a beautiful curl- of “ROSS-I-YA” at the final goal, which wasn’t in keeping against Finland and appears burg — was the better team
ing shot, Aleksei Miran- whistle at Saint Petersburg with the overall standard of to have cemented his starting in the early stages and had a
chuk finally gave Russia Stadium. an often scrappy game. place, having previously been headed goal by Joel Pohjan-
something to smile about used mostly as a substitute by palo ruled out by video re-
at the European Champi- A loss would have left Russia The big center forward was Russia coach Stanislas Cher- view in the third minute.
onship. with an extremely difficult the focal point of all Russia’s chesov.
task to qualify for the knock- attacks, though this one in- Pohjanpalo, Finland’s scorer
The left-footed playmaker out stage, given its last match volved him using good foot- “I welcomed his move to against Denmark, was also
produced the one moment is a trip to Denmark on Mon- work instead of his renowned Italy,” Cherchesov said. “He played through on goal later
of class in a chaotic game day. aerial prowess. has always been a good foot- in the first half but had two
Wednesday to give Russia a baller, but he needed to de- shots blocked by last-ditch
1-0 win over Finland and its Now Russia is tied on points Miranchuk collected the ball velop more as a person and challenges.
first points at Euro 2020. with the Finns, who missed on the edge of the area and get out of his comfort zone.
a chance to reach the last 16 slipped a short ball forward “How the game went, I think
“I have to give credit, it was with a game to spare with a to Dzyuba, who laid it off “At Atalanta, he has had to we deserved a point,” Kaner-
beautiful finishing.” Finland second straight victory in deftly back to the playmaker. prove himself in one of the va said.
coach Markku Kanerva said their first major tournament. Miranchuk took one touch to best leagues in the world.”
of the goal in first-half stop- Their first victory was 1-0 cut inside Finland defender Russia was humiliated at
page time. over Denmark in a match Daniel O’Shaughnessy and, Kanerva had expressed his times by Belgium in its open-
marked by Christian Erik- with barely any back-lift, concern ahead of the game ing group game but found
The pessimism that followed sen’s collapse. floated his shot beyond goal- that his players might still be Finland’s midfield — missing
the Russians’ 3-0 loss to Bel- keeper Lukas Hradecky and traumatized by the incident Sparv while he recovers from
gium in their opening Group It came as no surprise that Ar- into the top corner. involving Eriksen on Satur- a knee injury — much easier
B game was replaced by loud tem Dzyuba was involved in day. They wore T-shirts dur- to cut through, especially
While Russia relied on Dzyu- ing the warmup with words when Miranchuk dropped
ba and Aleksandr Golovin for “Get well Christian!” on the deep to link up play.
goals at the World Cup on front, an idea devised by cap-
home soil in 2018, when the tain Tim Sparv. The negative for Russia was
team defied expectations to the sight of defender Mario
reach the quarterfinals, Mi- “My sense was that the play- Fernandes getting carried
ranchuk could have a bigger ers were OK,” said Kanerva, a off on a stretcher in the 26th
say at Euro 2020. former primary school teach- minute after landing on his
er. “In my mind, that tells a back in a fall.
He is coming off a solid first story about the nature of the
season at Italian team Ata- team. The players gave every- The Brazilian-born right
lanta, in which he scored in thing, but on the other hand back was taken to the hos-
his first appearance in the some things are bigger than pital with a suspected spinal
Champions League and also football.” problem but no damage to
in his first appearance in Se- his vertebrae was found. He
rie A against eventual cham- Indeed, Finland — cheered will travel with the team to
pion Inter Milan. on by about 4,000 fans who Moscow ahead of the Den-
made the 200-kilometer mark game and be observed
Along with Golovin, Miran- (125-mile) journey from the by medical staff.