Kick-off time 19:45. Wales vs Moldova is not available in live streaming. Italy scored three in Israel.
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Chris Coleman concluded: “It was so important we got off to a good start in the campaign”.
Chris Coleman says Wales are determined to build on Euro 2016 when they begin their World Cup qualifiers against Moldova.
Serbia’s Filip Mladenovic, left, challenges Ireland’s Seamus Coleman, during their World Cup Group D qualifying match at the Rajko Mitic Stadium in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. “I feel OK, I feel good, I am enjoying it and have no immediate plans for that”. “I had dreamt about that”. In the first half they showed the same intensity as they did in France but their passing was sloppy at times. From inside the six-yard box, the Burnley striker made no mistake, nodding beyond Ilie Cebanu, the Moldova goalkeeper, who was wearing a plaster above his right eye after an earlier collision with the same player. At exactly 11 p.m. – an hour into the game in Turku – Berisha netted Kosovo’s equalizer from the penalty spot after being fouled by Thomas Lam.
“We’ll continue what we do”, he said. “We have very interesting players, with a prosperous future”. “I’m sure we’ll ruin the mood for some other teams”. They are 18 points below Italy. “Two goals for him tonight which is a great start”. They are 1 point below Papua New Guinea. Ciro Immobile eased Italy’s anxieties in the 83rd minute by netting the visitors’ third in Haifa.
39′ – GOAL! Wales 1-0 Moldova: Vokes makes the breakthrough, heading in a sublime Bale cross at the far post. The remaining 15 minutes will be completed Tuesday, kicking off at 2 p.m. (1200 GMT).
Quoted in Goal ahead of his country’s World Cup qualifier against Moldova, Coleman reveals that he did consider a return to club football, but now has his head firmly focused on another successful campaign with Wales.
Some 61 days had passed since their semi-final defeat against Portugal in Lyon in the European Championship finals and the feelgood factor around the team is still there.
And it really was game over when Bale latched on to a wayward pass from Moldovan defender Ion Jardan and raced through to loft the ball over Cebenu five minutes after the break.
But Bale got his second and Wales’ fourth in the fifth minute of stoppage time after being pulled down by Andrian Cascaval, dusting himself down to slot home the penalty.
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Over in Cardiff, Real Madrid forward Bale teed up Sam Vokes for a 38th-minute opener and then scored his 23rd and 24th worldwide goals either side of an effort by Joe Allen, who registered his first in a 4-0 crushing of Moldova.
