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Samuel Meade

Simon Jordan sends brutal message to Wales fans after World Cup heartbreak

Simon Jordan has told Wales that they made an impression - albeit a bad one - at the World Cup and he would "see them at home".

The Welsh suffered a 2-0 loss at the hands of Iran on Friday morning, leaving them with one point from their opening two games in Qatar. They now need to beat England in their final group game and hope that other results go their way if they are to make the knockout stages.

Jordan was keen to remind Wales, who are appearing at the World Cup for the first time in over 60 years, how they revelled in England's shock loss to Iceland at Euro 2016. The former Crystal Palace owner seemed happy to stick the knife in as he questioned their approach.

He said on TalkSport : "In the same way the Welsh sat there having a little sing song when we got knocked out by Iceland - what goes around, comes around."

Jordan went on to add: "I think, in fairness, with all objectivity, the Welsh are slightly better than the performance they put on today. I don't know why they didn't change, you could see the game getting away from them, you could see everything was in transition, I don't know why they didn't go from back to front with Kieffer Moore and play off him, but they didn't.

"Wales came to this tournament to make an impression, they've made an impression, it is a bad one. See you at home."

The Welsh were understandably downbeat after their reverse at the Ahmed bin Ali Stadium - with their opponents scoring twice in stoppage time.

(FIFA via Getty Images)

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Gareth Bale said: "It's gutting - there's no other way to say it. We fought till the end but it's difficult when you go down to 10 men in the World Cup against good teams. We have to keep going and we have to pick ourselves up straight away. It will be difficult now, but we have to try to beat England - it's as simple as that."

Wales boss Rob Page added: “We want to give our supporters something to cheer about. They have shown massive commitment to come over [to Qatar] and it really disappoints me that we’ve given them that. We’ll bounce back, we’ll pick them up and go again.”

We weren’t in the game at all. Even in the first half, before the sending-off … you can carry one or two players if there are off-days but when the majority of the team are not quite at it there is only going to be one outcome, unfortunately. It [qualifying] is out of our hands now.”

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