Wout Weghorst heads late winner as Wales slip to defeat by Netherlands
With 165 days to go until Wales kick off their World Cup campaign against the United States at the Al Rayyan Stadium in Qatar, every game counts as preparation. Gareth Bale entered for the final 18 minutes as a much-changed team to the one that overcame Ukraine on Sunday were edged out by the Netherlands, who won after a topsy-turvy finish in which Wout Weghorst headed in a stoppage-time winner seconds after Rhys Norrington-Davies had cancelled out Tuen Koopmeiners’s smart opener. This was Wales’s first home defeat since November 2018, but there is a much bigger picture now at play.
