Wales left with plenty to prove after painful throwback defeat to Armenia | Ben Fisher


Home loss to team ranked 97th in the world adds to poor run of form making Monday’s game in Turkey feel make-or-break

The inquest into Wales’s humbling by Armenia began in earnest on Saturday morning, a few hours before an afternoon flight to Samsun, the Turkish city on the Black Sea where suddenly it all feels rather make or break when it comes to qualifying for Euro 2024.

The grave mood in the stands at full time in Cardiff, as the remnants of a sold-out crowd wondered whether they had inadvertently been teleported back to the bruising days when Wales were nestled below Guatemala and Guyana in the Fifa rankings, married with what is now a bleak forecast.

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