Bale only played 30 minutes of their final warm up game against Sweden on Sunday, after coach Chris Coleman made a decision to rest their talisman following his Champions League final victory with Madrid in Milan, in which he appeared to struggle witrh cramp.
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Liverpool midfielder Joe Allen is in line to start Wales’ European Championship opener against Slovakia in Bordeaux on Saturday 11 June after recovering from a knee injury. It’s their first ever European Championship, but, with players like Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey, they have every chance to make some noise in France.
“We corrected some things after the Slovenia game, so, in general, the feeling is good, but we must raise ourselves considerably before the group games start, both offensively and defensively”, Hamren said. We respect him but Wales is not just about Gareth Bale.
“We all work hard as one unit”.
“People can write what they want but we all know that we work very hard on the training pitch every day as a squad”.
“It’s never a one-man team“.
Coleman added: “We need to build them up this week and get them ready and just remind them what makes them a good team and get back to that”.
“We want to go home with no regrets”. But when it comes down to serious business we fight for each other.
Euro 2016 is about to start and perhaps in a month’s time we’ll be able to join in celebrating some long-awaited success for the England team.
Coleman was subsequently pictured carrying his own clipboard complete with the Wales “team” at their Dinard base in Brittany, which read: Banks, Cafu, Carlos Alberto, Beckenbauer, Moore, Best, Socrates, Charlton, Zico, Pele, Maradona.
‘Obviously we’d like to win the tournament.
When “Gentle Giant” Charles missed the 1958 World Cup quarter-final against Brazil, Wales still performed creditably but lost 1-0 to the eventual champions. The Russian’s usually go with age in big tournaments, but with mid-20 players like Zenit strikers Aleksandr Kokorin and Artyom Dzyuba, Zenit midfielder Oleg Shatov, CSKA midfielder Aleksandr Golovin and Spartak Moscow full-back Dmitri Kombarov, Russia could finish strongly in second and move on to the knockout stage.
Chris Coleman has told his Wales players to forget about facing England and concentrate on their opening game against in-form Slovakia.
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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.
