Wales 2-4 Armenia: Hosts condemned to embarrassing defeat on dark night for Rob Page

Wales suffered arguably one of their lowest days of the Rob Page era after going down to a shock 4-2 defeat at the hands of Armenia at Cardiff City Stadium - their first home defeat in European Championship qualifying campaign for 12 years.

A well-taken goal from Daniel James after 10 minutes, his sixth in a Wales shirt, looked to have set the hosts up nicely in front of a sell-out crowd, but they were pegged back just a few moments later when Lucas Zelarayan turned home.

And the Red Wall was silenced just after the half-hour mark, as Grant-Leon Ranos ghosted his way into the box to power a header past Danny Ward.

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Ranos was on hand again to fire home just after the break as things skipped bad, worse, and straight to disastrous for Wales.

Harry Wilson did offer some glimmer of hope by stabbing home a few moments later, but any slither of a comeback was quickly extinguished when Zelarayan curled home his second of the night, after Ranos had previously struck the post.

It's the first time Wales have tasted defeat in a home European Championship qualifier since going down at the hands of England in 2011, and the shocked expressions on the Wales bench told all you needed to know about what was, in the end, an utterly wretched performance.

As too did Kieffer Moore's late red card. The striker was dismissed late on for kicking out at Ognjen Chancharevich

Wales will know they have to offer up an acceptable response when they travel to Turkey on Monday, but this performance will undoubtedly go down as a damaging one in terms of their Euro 2024 hopes, although it's important not to take too much away from Armenia, who in contrast