10th Oct U21 Euro Championship play-offs

[traeth]

Betting for Friday's matches from skybet

17:00 Austria U21 1.73 3.40 Finland U21 4.33
17:30 Turkey U21 1.50 3.50 Belarus U21 6.50
18:00 Germany U21 1.80 3.25 France U21 4.20
19:45 Wales 5.00 3.50 England U21 1.61

the match that interests me is Wales v England

looking at the two squads the England side have more players from premiership club

Wales Under-21 squad:
Owain Fon Williams (Stockport County), Rhys Taylor (Chelsea), Neal Eardley (Oldham Athletic), Grant Basey (Charlton Athletic), Darcy Blake (Cardiff City), Joe Jacobson (Bristol Rovers), Lloyd James (Southampton), Rhoys Wiggins (Crystal Palace), Nicky Adams (Leicester City), Joe Allen (Swansea City), Mark Bradley (Walsall), Jack Collison (WHU), Andy King (Leicester City), Shaun MacDonald (Swansea City), Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal), Jonathan Brown (Cardiff City), Simon Church (Reading), Josh Klein-Davies (Bristol Rovers).

England Under-21 squad:
Joe Hart (Manchester City), Tom Heaton (Manchester Utd), Joe Lewis (Peterborough); Ryan Bertrand (Chelsea), Martin Cranie (Portsmouth), Craig Gardner (Aston Villa), Michael Mancienne (Chelsea), Stephen Taylor (Newcastle), David Wheater (Middlesbrough); Lee Cattermole (Wigan), Tom Huddlestone (Tottenham), Adam Johnson (Middlesbrough), Adam Lallana (Southampton), James Milner (Aston Villa), Fabrice Muamba (Bolton), Mark Noble (West Ham), Jamie O'Hara (Tottenham); Gabriel Agbonlahor (Aston Villa), Frazier Campbell (Manchester United), Matt Derbyshire (Blackburn), Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Wolves).

I've been following the Welsh team progress through the qualifiers and we have done well , we beat France but we've come up against one the strongest team in this comp.

this news from bbc

Wales' Under-21 team have boosted ahead of their European Championship play-off clash as England will be without stars Aaron Lennon and Micah Richards

full story here BBC SPORT | Football | Internationals | Injury blow for England U21 pair

Wales lost 0-2 to England in a friendly in May at Wrexham, Wales played well but struggled to find the net , England's finishing was clinical .
Wales have a slight chance if they have a good day with England knowing they have the return leg on the following Wednesday.
Wales have a few of the U21 players in the full squad.


Tempted to lay England @ 1.74 but with skybet offering Wales at 5.0 my money will be on the home win

Wales @ 5.0 skybet

[slick]

Would say good luck Traeth but for obvious reasons I won't.
Should be a cracking game though and allthough England have lost a couple of players to the senior squad they sill look strong and have impressed in there last few outings, well most of this yr truth be known and it will take great performance from the Welsh to beat them.
Draws not out of the question mind as its over two legs but I have a feeling Englands overall strength in depth will see them through this one.

I also see Ched Evans is out for Wales as he's been called up to the seniors too , he'll be a miss as he's a major goal threat, England on the other hand have three or four players there who are just as deadly.

Should be a great game anyhow , probably better than the full Internationals the day after.

[AnothrSpacecat]

I expect England to beat Wales tonight and have put £30.01 on them doing so over 90 minutes. Wouldve lumped more on but I'm saving that for Spain HT/FT tomorrow at 1/2 ... which is the most ridiculous price in world football for a long time.

[slick]

1-0 Wales after 12 mins, England havent had a touch hardly yet.

[slick]

Its taken England about 20 mins to get going but now they seem to have it by the scruff of the neck and are now leading 1-2, can't see them getting beat now but could go on to score a hat full.

[slick]

spoke to soon 2-2 now

[slick]

England nearly evens now, I might take some of that as i can still see them winning this.

[slick]

thats me done , managed to get 2.1's in the end and now its 2-3, gonna lay them off while the goings good.

[ONEDUNME]

90 mins up and i still wouldnt be surprised to see another goal

[slick]

finished 2-3 but it was a shoddy performance by England, can't see them struggling to much in the return leg but they could have wrapped this match up tonight instead of giving the Welsh any confidence by letting them score two goals against them.