Day 6: Wales vs Iran | Qatar vs Senegal | Netherlands vs Ecuador | England vs USA
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Wales couldn’t get any control of the game from start to finish. Iran deserved the victory and were rampant in the second half.
I thought they gave as much as they have to be honest. They just lack the quality.
Hopefully Wales can scrape a win against England and sneak through.
Joe Allen came on and provided two assists. Clearly man of the match.
That Wales squad is awful looking. The old boys in it for the farewell tour. Fecking Chris Gunter still plays for them and he’s a League 2 player these days.
That Wales squad is awful looking. The old boys in it for the farewell tour. Fecking Chris Gunter still plays for them and he’s a League 2 player these days.
Wales waited 64 years to play like that ….awful
Iran played far better, there general play was just much more competent than it was against England. Of course England put far more pressure on Iran and thats partly why Iran cracked, but they just *were* better than the other day.
Wales are so poor.
Very pleasing anyway.
Very pleasing anyway.
Iran - USA will be intense. Lines up as a battle for second place.
Wales were so so bad. Makes you rethink the USA game. England are going to score another hatful tonight.
Even more so after getting hammered in the opening game by England.
Everyone said they were weak and fragile yet they won every battle today and deserved the win.
Great mental strength.
English losing today would be a great piece of drama
They all keep saying wales fought until the end and fought like warriors.
Its weird, they werent playing spain or france or brazil. They should be able to compete and have a go.
Its weird, they werent playing spain or france or brazil. They should be able to compete and have a go.
Iran had 21 shots on goal. Wales really are poor.
I understand mate. My biggest complaint is the lack of professionalism by Bale and Ramsey. Bale gave a lot to Wales but these last 2 to 3 years were complete waste. He did qualify Wales by himself so perhaps this is the realistic outcome.
I just hope it's not a humiliation against England. It would be unbearable for my Welsh mates.
Definitely! Better off watching that game if you’re a neutral.
Asian countries have been doing well this tournament
Don't want to take anything away from England but Iran are really bad. This match was like two bad teams fighting out who can make less mistakes at the end. And Wales did with a massive brainfart by their GK, and paid the price. Otherwise this match had 0-0 draw all over it.
Shame Ukraine couldn't get past the last hurdle. Would have been a fairytale story to see Ukraine vs Iran two countries that are going through so much shit back home. Well done and congrats Iran. Good result for England as well as this means USA can't sit back now.
Iran were brilliant.
A bit more composure, a bit more luck and you win that about 5-0.
Congrats!
Yes, it would have seemed ridiculous, usually, but considering Italy failed to beat North Macedonia, there can't really be any complaints about the run as they didn't even get to Portugal.
In the end, any big national side can only blame themselves for not qualifying through the group stage, so I don't have sympathy.
Absolutely no chance. Today’s game really brought home how bad Wales are. Which, in turn, reinforces how shit the US are.
I don't agree with you
Fair play to Iran. Great performance & result after the hammering they got in the first game.
Both goals were very well finished.
Big disappointment for Wales.
Both goals were very well finished.
Big disappointment for Wales.
This is correct. If Bale can't produce a bit of magic or knock in a penalty, we're mostly stuffed. We just don't have the pool of players. Maybe Uruguay and Croatia are very big exceptions, but few countries of 3m people are going to pull up any trees. Qualifying for tournaments fairly regularly in the last few years is in itself the massive achievement for us.
It's like if England could only field players from West Yorkshire.
Wales were awful, but they'll all raise their game against England and look competent, which will lead to the inevitable semi-patronising rubbish on the Beeb "Wales show they belong" etc etc
Are the Welsh still celebrating England going out? Can’t wait to dump them out next week.
Sod off we need to win tonight.
Limbs.
Did you even watch the game? Prior to the red card, Iran should have scored they were pretty much the better team.
Weird for them to frame this as being cruel on Wales
Did they? Bale and Ramsey were jogging around at times. Daniel James was Daniel James. One-dimensional and predictable. For that 2nd goal, I hardly saw any Welsh player sprinting back. Iran had 4 making the runs.
Oh well at least made it during my lifetime.
No complaints the best team by far won.
No complaints the best team by far won.
Yeah... I quite enjoy seeing them do well until I remember that.
“Writes his own scripts” apparently though after scoring the penalty against the US
He’s done, he scored an important goal in the MLS final but he’s done. England will probably be his last game before he retires
Still stand by my statement on how shite this group is. Now for England to bring my money home.
The lack of desire from the Welsh players to get back for that second goal was a disgrace.
The goalscorer for Iran started off well behind many of them in his own area and no one could be bothered to track him back.
The goalscorer for Iran started off well behind many of them in his own area and no one could be bothered to track him back.
Anyone expecting Qatar to surprise us with a victory?
So so cringe.