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Good afternoon and welcome to our live text coverage of Turkey v Wales.

Euro 2024 / Group Stage
Baku Olympic Stadium / 16.06.2021
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Pete Sharland

Updated 16/06/2021 at 17:59 GMT


39'
Wales could use a breather. Ramsey lifts a bouncing ball over Yokuslu, but there's no one up with him so no counter.
39'
Under finds Yokuslu, but as he drives towards the Wales box, Rodon does well to unload him.
36'
They're also getting to the ball first now - according to Graeme Souness, the key aspect of any football match. But have a look! Bale cuts out a stray pass and charges forward, Moore and James to his left. He opts to go alone, assuming he'll do Soyuncu for pace, but his touch is heavy and the defender tanks in to challenge, taking Bale down too so that he can't go after the loose ball.
35'
Turkey are playing a bit better now, and starting to pin Wales back.
34'
The ball flies over towards Şenol Güneş, the Turkey coach, so he goes to trap it on his thigh, misses, and sees it roll under his foot. Wonderful stuff.
32'
Both now back.
32'
I was talking about the old skool coverage just a few minutes ago, and shonuff we've lost the clock and the pictures.
31'
Meras barges James over, but the ref sees nothing amiss.
30'
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And it's a good one too, Calhanoglu picking out Ayhan in the middle, and he gets a good head on it too ... but Morrell is on the line and heads it away ... though a replay shows it was going wide.
29'
Turkey win a corner down the left....
28'
Under gets away down the right and he's got men in the box, but he tries to jink past Davies, who's having no such thing. Coming away with the ball, Davies then tries to find James, who slips.
28'
Bale comes deep and looks to arrow a diag over the top for James. It's overhit, but a good indication of a good plan.
26'
The coverage of this match is a proper throwback - hazy picture, jumping, freezing and all the old tricks. I'm quite enjoying it, it gives you that illicit, exotic feel you just don't get in ultra HD.
24'
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YE'VE GOTTAE SCORE! Bale sticks another fantastic ball in behind, this time through the middle, and Ramsey is onto it! His first touch moves it right, so when he comes to hit it he's sort of coming around his own arse. But he's got so much time and so much space - it's as though he can't believe either are real - that he just takes an almighty swing, sending the ball flying high over the bar. Wales can't keep missing chances like this, but on the other hand they're playing really well.
23'
Celik gets a breather from chasing James and carts a superb cross over to the back post, but it's just too high for Karaman.
22'
Rodon hits long to Moore, who knocks down for Ramsey, who immediately sticks James away down the left. Hit screeches towards the line and cuts over a low cross for Moore, but Ayhan does really well to slide in and get enough on the ball to take it away but not enough on it to score an own goal.
21'
Wales have had 55% of the possession so far.
19'
This is a really good, aggressive performance from Wales, and as Robbie Savage says in commentary, they need to get the ball out to James, who has Celik on toast. He skips by him again, only to find himself with no options, so Wales go backwards. Still, though, they're in possession.
17'
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Goodness me, how do Wales not score here?! How is that not handball?! Let's break it down. Wales do really well to move it through midfield and James crosses from the right, picking out Bale; he should head for goal but instead goes back across the face, I've no idea why, and I'm sure that hits a hand! But looking again, what actually happened was Soyuncu got up high to hook away from Moore with a horizontal roundhouse, and in the follow-through the ball flicked his arm. Good decision by the ref.
16'
I'm all for there being games in a tournament featuring one team trying to score and another trying not to concede - I really enjoyed Spain-Sweden - but it's nice to watch one featuring two teams intent on winning. And that's what we've got here.
14'
Turkey break and Karaman knocks infield to Under, who hooks a bouncing ball directly at Ward.