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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ben Fisher at Cardiff City Stadium

Wales shock Croatia to keep Euro hopes alive thanks to Harry Wilson double

Harry Wilson shrugs off Croatia’s Domagoj Vida to score Wales first goal.
Harry Wilson shrugs off Croatia’s Domagoj Vida to score Wales first goal. Photograph: Kieran McManus/Shutterstock

Wales needed to beat Croatia to keep their automatic qualification hopes alive and how they got a barnstorming performance to match. Harry Wilson was the match-winner on a supercharged night, scoring twice to hoist Wales into second in Group D and take matters into their hands, but there were no end of moments to savour from this monumental victory over a team ranked sixth in the world.

None more so than the sight of Wales’s centre-back, Ben Davies, the captain’s armband on his left biceps, on the rampage, on a one-man mission to close down the Croatia goalkeeper, Dominik Livakovic, midway through the second half before then going to ground to nick the ball from Luka Modric.

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