“Between now and the end of the season Joe [Allen] has had more football, albeit on the training pitch”.
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Allen has had a knee problem since the end of the season, while Robson-Kanu picked up an ankle injury at Wales’ pre-Euros training camp in Portugal two weeks ago.
“If you get a kick on it, that is a question mark”.
Coleman is the first manager to take charge of a Wales team at a major tournament since the 1958 World Cup and he says the players and staff are relishing being involved in the competition in France, despite their underdog status. For our students to make the excellent academic progress that we expect, it is crucial that they are in their classes every school day, arriving promptly and ready to learn.
But should Vardy leave it might increase speculation that other Leicester players, among them Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kante, could see their own futures elsewhere.
Despite lacking game time, Coleman says the trio are physically “very very good” and if the situation stays the same, all three will be available for the Slovakia game.
We are unsure of the goalkeeper in Coleman’s dream team, but it does feature Cafu, Franz Beckenbauer, Bobby Moore and Roberto Carlos in defence, a midfield of Zico, Socrates, Bobby Charlton and George Best, with Pele and Diego Maradona playing up front.
Coleman has received a major boost ahead of his team’s crunch clash, with Ledley, Allen and Hal Robson-Kanu all making returns to full training.
While the deadline for naming final 23-man squads has passed Euro 2016 coaches are permitted to replace injured squad members up until the opening game of the tournament on Friday.
But Allen is set to hand Wales a huge boost by being declared fit to play against Slovakia.
Kozak, whose side had defeated world champions Germany away from home the previous weekend, saw some similarities between the two home nations, yet he was quick to highlight the match-winners Wales possess in their ranks.
“We know why we’re here, but what’s coming is something we’ve never experienced”. We have it here but we don’t feel like we’re penned in, we haven’t got cabin fever. “This is what we’ve been screaming for”.
“They have done really well, but we don’t have to do that”.
“Forget about the run we’ve been on, what form you’re in, it’s all about that game”.
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