Chris Coleman on what the Euros mean to him and what Gareth Bale means to Wales.
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“It is an unbelievable game to be involved in”, said Bale.
“I want to enjoy myself on the football pitch, like you do when you’re a kid”, he said. I understand we’ve got 25 or 30,000 Welsh supporters here to back us and to get behind us which is incredible really.
“In this campaign you’ve seen it, after every game we are all in huddles”. We all get on so well.
As far as betting is concerned for this game, I think we are getting a good enough price to simply put money on Wales to win.
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“Forget about the run we’ve been on, what form you’re in, it’s all about that game”. We conceded four goals in the campaign. “We improved our levels of concentration and focus, and we stuck to a gameplan and that was not always pretty”. We want to do better than that.
“If they get a bit complacent and think we are something we are not then we won” t come out of it happy. I think he’s one of those players who is important not just on the pitch but off the pitch, it’s his character…
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‘But it is all not like that for us.
“There was hard times for a while, but we were all young and building for the future, ” said Bale.
Greece did it against the odds in 2004, and nobody thought much of Denmark going into 1992, so why not Wales in 2016?
And the Wales boss added that it might take Wales to show their “horrible” side on the big stage, saying they don’t need to win points for style. ‘They went all out and did what they needed to. Let us know your thought below. They were on the beach. “But it’s all for a good cause and I’m sure they understand”.
‘We are probably somewhere in between both teams. It is achievable. Very tough, of course, but achievable’.
A nation has waited with baited breath since qualification for a first major finals since the 1958 World Cup was secured back in October, and some 25,000 Wales fans have made the trip across the Channel.
But the Slovaks are more than capable of spoiling the party having recently beaten world champions Germany and tasked only three defeats in their last 26 games.
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The Napoli midfielder believes worldwide friendly draws against the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland over the past three months will stand his team-mates in good stead for what Wales have to offer.
