Joe Allen, who scored a wonderful goal in Vienna, is nearly certain to be out with a hamstring problem, leaving manager Chris Coleman with a decision to make over a replacement.
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Joe Allen scored a tremendous goal for Wales in its World Cup qualifying match vs. Austria Thursday, lacing a volley from outside the area to open the scoring.
The manager said that Allen “had a twinge in the hamstring” and revealed that the 26-year-old would undergo a scan in the next 24 hours to establish the extent of the problem.
Wales boss Chris Coleman said Allen would be scanned upon his return home, but he does not expect him to feature against Georgia. “We probably won’t have Joe, we already don’t have Rambo”.
“Have we got enough without them?” There has been all sorts said about what we do, but we concentrate on ourselves and the game plan. Yet any notion of good fortune was absent when Austria equalised again through Arnautovic.
“You could see in the last 20 minutes we started playing more direct, more British so to speak and they were pressing very well and we were nearly playing into their hands with the chances we were giving”.
Bale, per the Daily Mail, added: “I’ve had a long throw for a while but we’ve only just brought it out”.
Bale himself admitted: “It was a nice surprise to use and worked to help get us a point. We ground out a two-all”.
“He is Stoke’s player and we have to respect that”.
“You have to score all types of goals”.
The subsequent corner was then directed wide by Bale, but the Real Madrid forward found space again after 22 minutes with devastating effect to create the opener.
Austria were undeterred and deservedly level within six minutes.
Just three minutes after the restart, though, more lax Wales defending allowed Arnautovic to double his tally.
Arnautovic got away from Gunter and timed his run perfectly to beat Hennessey to the ball and head it downwards and into the net with a clever finish.
Wales coach Chris Coleman has dismissed his Austrian counterpart Marcel Koller’s claim that Wales were “lucky” to reach the 2016 Euro semi-finals. Bale’s long throw-in was flicked on by Sam Vokes and Chester met the ball on the full with a diving header that Almer blocked with his legs at point-blank range.
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Coleman felt Koller might have been to referring to Welsh “luck” in the early exchanges of the opening Euro 2016 game against Slovakia when Ben Davies cleared Marek Hamsik’s goal-bound shot off the line.
