Craig Bellamy keeps unbeaten Wales record alive in Turkey after late penalty drama

TURKEY 0-0 WALES: Craig Bellamy and Wales received a precocious let-off successful their UEFA Nations League lucifer successful Turkey arsenic Kerem Akturkoglu deed the station from the punishment spot

A missed punishment successful the penultimate infinitesimal extended Craig Bellamy’s glorious honeymoon period.

The Red Dragons escaped from Kayseri with a stock of the spoils aft the hosts fluffed their lines pursuing the grant of a hotly-disputed spot-kick. Bellamy took his unbeaten grounds to 5 arsenic Kerem Akturkoglu’s effort crashed into the ft of the upright and to information - and fewer points volition beryllium harder won than this one.

It took an almighty changeable of bully luck to sphere the caput coach’s unblemished grounds aft referee Juan Martinez Munuera punished Neco Williams for a foul connected Yunus Akgun. The small playmaker had worked himself connected the incorrect broadside of Nottingham Forest ’s defender and though the left-back made interaction with the ball, helium was adjudged to person taken his opponent’s limb first.

VAR stayed with the on-field determination and Akturkoglu sent keeper Karl Darlow the incorrect mode - lone to spot his punishment deed the woodwork. It was conscionable reward for the efforts Bellamy’s players enactment successful arsenic they refused to buckle nether adjacent changeless location unit - peculiarly successful the opening half.

Before kick-off, the caput manager asked the question of whether his players were bully capable to support with possession. During the opening 45 minutes, the reply was a simple: ‘No.’

Turkey gradually upped the ante and it took a bid of blocks, interceptions, hopeless clearances and a ace prevention from Darlow to support them connected level terms. Conor Roberts produced a superb clearance to halt Merih Demiral scoring from Mert Muldur transverse and Hakan Calhanoglu changeable implicit the barroom aft a mix-up playing retired from the back.

Darlow was past called upon erstwhile Yunus Akgun was sent through. Leeds’ keeper was retired of his extremity rapidly to adjacent the space and managed to prevention the changeable with his legs. The Red Dragons someway managed to upwind that tempest and yet posed immoderate problems of their own.

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Abdulkerim Bardakci shoved Wilson arsenic the Fulham antheral chased a done shot but the visitors’ appeals for a punishment were waved aside. Then, Jordan James finished from Mark Harris’s pull-back, lone to spot an offside determination by the thinnest of margins fixed against the Oxford United striker.

But it was from Wilson - looking to go the archetypal subordinate since Ian Rush to people 4 goals successful 4 games - who came closest. Harris fed his workfellow jut extracurricular the country and the playmaker moved the shot retired of his feet earlier cracking a thrust into the ft of the post.

Turkey mislaid their impetus erstwhile skipper Hakan Calhanoglu was substituted astatine fractional time. He had been pulling the strings successful midfield and, without him, the hosts were incapable to exert the aforesaid level of control.

They had their chances arsenic the crippled went on. Enes Unal astir made a stunning commencement aft being introduced from the seat but helium missed the people amid a clump of yellowish shirts astatine the adjacent station from conscionable 3 yards. Golden lad Arda Guler fired implicit the barroom from conscionable wrong the country with his near ft arsenic the tempo was raised successful the dying moments earlier the precocious play from the punishment spot.

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