{"id":4134,"date":"2024-12-03T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T14:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2024-12-03T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T14:44:49","slug":"honours-even-as-turkey-hold-wales-in-nations-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2024\/12\/03\/honours-even-as-turkey-hold-wales-in-nations-league\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Honours Even as Turkey Hold Wales in Nations League<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (September 6<sup>th<\/sup> 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Start of New Era<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fresh from reaching the quarter-finals of Euro 2024, Vincenzo Montella\u2019s Turkey held Cymru to a 0-0 draw under their new manager, Craig Bellamy \u2013 Rob Page was shown the door after failing to steer Wales to Germany\u2019s Euro2024. Wales had the better of the match, but couldn\u2019t find the target. Montella was satisfied with the result, especially after playing almost the last half hour with ten men after Baris Yilmaz received his second yellow card for a bad foul on Neco Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Montella pointed out that Wales were rested while Turkey\u2019s players were tired after their exploits in the summer. Bellamy\u2019s skipper Aaron Ramsey went close twice in the first ten minutes. He headed over the bar from Connor Roberts\u2019 cross after 5 minutes and shot just wide after Sorba Thomas\u2019 cross found him in the area 5 minutes later. Almost five minutes later Harry Wilson\u2019s clever short freekick from outside the area set up Ethan Ampadu, but Leeds United player\u2019s shot just missed. Wales persisted but their efforts failed to find the net. After 25 minutes Kenan Yildiz was yellow carded for a foul on Roberts, beginning a six-minute period where four players \u2013 two from each side were yellow carded for bad fouls, Wilson, Brennan Johnson and Yilmaz, whose persistent making a nuisance of himself would eventually cost him dear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As half time beckoned Ramsey\u2019s shot found Mert G\u00fcnok equal to the task, saving to his left. At the other end Real Madrid\u2019s Arda G\u00fcler\u2019s cross was headed just over by Abd\u00fclkerim Bardacki. Honours even at half time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the break G\u00fcler\u2019s cross was headed over by Yilmaz \u2013 his last contribution before seeing red. Ten minutes into the second half Johnson\u2019s close-range effort went just wide and a minute later Wilson\u2019s shot from outside of the area went close. Just over an hour into the match Ramsey\u2019s header cleared the bar. A minute later, referee Rohit Saggi dismissed Yilmaz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Montella had previously said that Turkey\u2019s Ballon D\u2019Or nominee, Hakan \u00c7alhanoglu may not play at all due to injury. Montella\u2019s plans were wrecked by the sending off. \u00c7alhanouglu was given just over 25 minutes to impress. With three minutes of normal time remaining \u00c7alhanouglu\u2019s cross gave Bardacki an opportunity to steal the points but Danny Ward saved his header. With almost ten minutes of added time Wales pressed for the winner but could not find a way past G\u00fcnok \u2013 it finished 0-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (September 6th 2024) Start of New Era Fresh from reaching the quarter-finals of Euro 2024, Vincenzo Montella\u2019s Turkey held Cymru<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[811,812,809,808,518,810,688,217,516,519,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4135,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}