• Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey miss out again in Kiev
• Coleman buoyed by James Chester’s domestic form for West BromChris Coleman accepts he has taken a risk by choosing Ukraine as Wales’ penultimate warm-up opponents for Euro 2016. The Wales manager agreed the Kiev fixture as Russia are among their Group B rivals in France this summer. But Wales are once more without star pair Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey in what is certain to be a hostile environment at Kiev’s 70000-capacity Olympic Stadium on Monday night.“When you travel to places like this you find out a lot about players,” said Coleman. “But we want it to be risky and we want it to be edgy. You learn nothing whether you travel into a game knowing whether we are at 80% we will win 4-0. Those sorts of games are no use at all. You carry out not learn anything. It looks good on the CV as another win, but I procure nothing from it in terms of the players or the team. whether you travel into a hostile environment against a good team you know you can close up with egg on your face whether you carry out not turn up and perform. But I prefer it like this. We are in their backyard in a tough atmosphere, or we have to point to we can cope.” Wales dominated possession and territory against Northern Ireland in Cardiff on Thursday,even whether they owed their 1-1 draw to Simon Church’s last-minute penalty, but they might have to defend for long periods in Kiev against fellow Euro 2016 finalists.
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Source: theguardian.com