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    Cymru vs. Iceland | 2025 European Under-21 Championship – Qualifying competition – GrpI

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        3. Match Summary

          Cymru are undefeated in their quest to qualify for the 2025 UEFA U21 European Championships in Georgia and Romania after a fine 1-0 win over Iceland.

          The opening exchanges were uneventful but the game burst into life when Joe Low found the back of the net with a header from a cross into the box from Tom Davies. It was a lovely cross and a wonderful goal.

          Low’s goal proved to be the winner but Cymru were made to work hard for the three points in the second half when Josh Thomas was sent off for serious foul play following a late challenge on Adam Benediktsson.

          Iceland did their best to find an equaliser and used the extra player to stretch Cymru but they dug deep and defended resolutely to secure the points.

        4. Here are the standings.

          Cymru’s next match is against Denmark at Rodney Parade on Monday,

          Tickets can be found at https://fawales.co/CymDenU21

        5. FULL-TIME

          It’s all over at Rodney Parade and the 10 players of Cymru hold out to take all three points and top their qualifying group.

        6. 90' + 4'

          Substitution

          ÓSKAR BORGÞÓRSSON replaces VALGEIR VALGEIRSSON

        7. 90'

          7 minutes of added time to be played.

        8. 84'

          Substitution

          POPOV Christopher replaces COLWILL Rubin

        9. 82'

          Mikaelsson looked like he’d scored for Iceland as Beach dived and stretched across his goalmouth but the ball went wide of the left post.

        10. 77'

          Substitution

          ARI SIGURPÁLSSON replaces DAVÍÐ SNÆR JÓHANNSSON

        11. 77'

          Substitution

          ANTON LOGI LÚÐVÍKSSON replaces ÓLAFUR GUÐMUNDSSON

        12. 77'

          Substitution

          KING Eli Josef replaces STALEY Luke

        13. 73'

          Iceland are doing their best to apply as much pressure as they can on Cymru since going down to 10 players. Matty Jones’ team are doing their best to hold them off.

        14. 67'

          Substitution

          DANIJEL DJURIC replaces ÍSAK ANDRI SIGURGEIRSSON

        15. 67'

          Substitution

          ÓLAFUR KRISTÓFER HELGASON replaces ADAM INGI BENEDIKTSSON

        16. 63'

          Red card

          THOMAS Joshua John

        17. 63'

          Thomas is sent off following a foul on the Icelandic goalkeeper, Benediktsson.

        18. 46'

          SECOND-HALF

          The match is back underway at Rodney Parade.

        19. HALF-TIME: CYMRU 1-0 ICELAND

          Cymru have the lead at the break through Joe Low, who headed in a lovely goal.

        20. 45' + 3'

          Thomas is in for Cymru but as he releases his strike Karlsson makes a fantastic recovery tackle to put the ball behind for a corner.

        21. A fantastic header from Low is the difference so far in this qualifier.

        22. 41'

          Yellow card

          LOW Joseph

        23. 36'

          Yellow card

          KRISTALL MÁNI INGASON

        24. 36'

          Iceland think they’ve equalised but the referee saw that Ingason had leaned into the ball and put it over the line with his arm. The goal is ruled out and Ingason is shown a yellow card.

        26. 29'

          GÔÔÓL!!!! Good Cymru pressure results in a corner kick. As the ball is cleared it comes out to Savage whose strike is blocked. The ball is then crossed back into the box by Ton Davies and Joe Low heads Cymru into the lead.

        27. 28'

          Goal

          LOW Joseph

        28. 20'

          Iceland will feel they should have scored after Cymru fail to deal effectively with corner kick but Kristall Máni Ingason sends his shot wide.

        29. Looking smart!

        30. 7'

          In the opening exchanges Iceland have looked dangerous when on the attack.

        31. 1'

          KICK OFF!

          The match is underway.

        32. Warm-ups are nearly complete. Kick off is nearing.

        34. Fin Stevens captains Cymru tonight against Iceland in this UEFA U21 Championship qualifier.

        35. The players have arrived at Rodney Parade with Charlie Savage & Co being met by the mascots.

        38. Here’s a look at the state of play in Group I ahead of this evening’s fixture. Iceland lead the way in the group after beating Czechia 2-1 in their opening qualifier before a 1-0 win over Lithuania last month. Cymru began their qualifying campaign with a 2-2 draw with Denmark, before a 3-2 victory over Lithuania and 1-1 draw with Czechia.

        39. Fin Stevens spoke to the media on Wednesday and discussed having home advantage twice during the window.

          “It’s massive for us because the last three games have all been away. To get two home games in with the home crowd and hopefully we’ll get a lot of supporters in because that would give us a big boost. Iceland have got a few good players that we’ve had a look at and that will be a task for us. But we’ve looked at ways to break them down and I think we’re in a good place.”

          Watch Fin Stevens’ press conference in full on RedWall+.

        46. This double-header will be Cymru’s first home games of the qualifying campaign and head coach Matty Jones believes the onus is now on his side to take performances to Iceland and Denmark.

          Speaking in his squad announcement press conference, Jones said: “We’ve played against higher-ranked teams. It’s been challenging and it’s been difficult, but it’s allowed us to showcase our robustness defensively and our resilience in our approach. Our counter-attacking ability has got us goals and results, but it slightly changes when you’re at home and the responsibility is on us to be creative and take the game to Iceland and Denmark. Challenges await and I’m sure the players will be prepared for it.”

          Read more on faw.cymru.

        50. Matty Jones’ squad met up ahead of their 2025 UEFA European Under-21 qualifiers against Iceland and Denmark on Sunday. They will train alongside Rob Page’s senior squad again during the November international window.

        51. There is no live report available for this match

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