Peep! That was a terrific half of football and it ends with Wales a goal in front. Having latched on to two Gareth Bale passes from deep earlier in the half, only to miss glorious scoring chances, Aaron Ramsey finally made it third time lucky. Below are the live texts of the first half…
He controlled an amazing ball from deep on his chest before slotting past Cakir into the bottom left-hand corner. Burak Yilmaz shoves Joe Rodon in the Wales penalty area to concede a free-kick. That is a wonderful goal. Bale tees up Aaron Ramsey for the third time tonight and this time the Juventus midfielder makes no mistake.
He times his run into the penalty area to perfection, chests down a glorious lofted ball from deep and spanks the ball home past Ugurcan Cakir. What a pass! What a run! What a finish! Wales lead.
Brilliant from Soyuncu, who slides in to dispossess Gareth Bale with a perfectly timed tackle as the Wales skipper tried to beat him on his outside. Wales were in a wonderful position there, cantering upfield in a three-on-two counter-attack.
In all the excitement of that recent five-minute spell where Turkey had Wales under the cosh, Dan James was fouled as he attempted to gallop upfield on the break. I’m not sure who brought him down but, they didn’t even concede a free-kick, let alone get a yellow card.
Danny Ward finds Connor Roberts with a long, inch-perfect goal-kick to the touchline and Wales go on the attack again. They’re dominating possession and Bale is playing an awful lot better than he did against the Swiss.
Aaron Ramsey runs on to another delightful through ball from Bale, doing well to stay onside. Clean through on goal, he rushes his effort and skies the ball over the bar. That’s two great chances he’s wasted, both of them created by wonderful Bale slide-rule passes. Encouraging stuff for Wales but they need to start putting some of these chances away.
