Football Daily - The Debrief: Wales lose to Bosnia on penalties

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

Delyth Lloyd is at the Cardiff City stadium and it's heartbreak for Wales as they lost 4-2 on penalties to Bosnia-Herzegovina. The deadlock couldn't be broken after it finished 1-1 in extra time and Bosnia-Herzegovina will go on to face Italy in the play-off final on Tuesday. Alistair Bruce-Ball, Tom Lockyer and Dave Edwards dissect the match and how Wales were just four minutes away from the play-off final after the visitors equalized. Hear from the Wales manager Craig Bellamy, Dan James and defender Ethan Ampadu as they reflect on the disappointment of not making it to the World Cup this summer. Elsewhere Italy ended Northern Irelands dream of reaching the finals with a 2-0 win in the play-off semi-final in Bergamo, hear Michael O'Neil's thoughts on his teams qualifying campaign.TIMECODES: 01:30 – Reaction to Wales losing on penalities 07:10 – Dan James 09:50 – Ethan Ampadu 13:00 – Craig Bellamy 18:29 – Northern Ireland reaction Michael O'Neil 23:00 – What next for Wales?Fri 1945 England v Uruguay Sat 1200 Everton v Liverpool in the WSL on Sports Extra 2 Sat 1330 Man Utd v Man City in the WSL Sat 1730 Arsenal v Spurs in the WSL on Sports Extra Sun 1200 Chelsea v Aston Villa in the WSL Sun 1500 Leicester v Brighton & Hove in the WSL on Sports Extra 2

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Alongside me, at Dave Edwards. Tom Lockyer and Alastair Bruce Ball. The Wales players and coaching staff are in a huddle in the centre circle, no doubt, wondering what may have been. Craig Bellamy's head just poking out from the middle. I'm sure he's telling his players how proud he is of Wales as David Duans, Emma Orhide, the unofficial anthem that Wales have had over the last few seasons,

just reminding everyone, whatever happens, Wales are still going to be here. Brennan Johnson here is just trudging off the pitch down to our left through the tunneling. He has his shirt over his face. He will Dave Edwards be feeling so much heartbreak and your heart goes out to him because to miss a crucial penalty, no one ever wants to be on the end of that. Yeah, Wales were in the ascendancy when Brennan Johnson stepped up to the ball and that's where they lost that little bit of momentum.

Most of these Wales players head around the stadium to thank these important incredible home fans. Brennan Johnson can't face it all. He heads down the tunnel. There's nothing that anyone can say to him that will make him feel any better. The same with Nico Williams. It's just a moment they're going to have to ponder over

for the coming days, weeks, months I'm sure, right the way through to the World Cup, but they'll come back stronger. Dan James got the goal here to set us off this evening. That could have easily been the winner after he was the one he missed the penalty here against Poland a couple of years ago. So they'll come back stronger,

but there's no. nothing in this moment in time that you can say to Brennan Johnson or Nico Williams. Also, any of those Wales players to come for them in any way. It's such a contrast, isn't it? Because in that corner to the right of us, the far right corner, the Bosnia fans. And there's around 1,700 of them here tonight in the Cardiff City Stadium. They're bouncing. They're standing up.

They're delighted. Their players are just turning away from them now. The celebrations will continue into the Cardiff night for them. The Wales players making their way slowly around. on the pitch, just thanking the support from the Wales fans, many of whom have already exited for their cars to transport to get home. Tom Lockyer, so disappointing, isn't it? Because to think Wales were four minutes away from being at a World Cup this summer. Yeah, absolutely. And Dave's hit the nail on the head. He just, there's nothing that can be

said at this moment in time. Time is the only thing that's going to help these players now, but they will have to get over it. They'll have another game coming up short. shortly so you have to get around for that but fear play to Bosnia I think over the 120 minutes they probably deserved it fractionally probably wasn't much in it but like you said to be four minutes away from being knocked out themselves to go on and win it in penalties is is is quite the effort and the goalie as well having to have made the mistake the let Dan James score the opening goal to then go on and be the hero in the penalty shootout you have to take your hat off to him And yes, the penalties weren't great, but he still had to save one important one to take his team to a World Cup.

And it's interesting, Dave, isn't it? Penalties, they can change on a dime because Carl Darlow saving that first penalty from Demirevich. Really, you felt set the tone for the shootout, but it just goes to show that you can never tell which way a penalty shootout is going to go. Not right up until the very end. And you have to give credit to Ali Begavitch, the 18-year-old, who came on and made a real difference for Bosnia. They were on the ropes at 1-0-9. They made their positive substitutions. That come on and made a big difference.

He was a big part of that. He got an assist. And then regardless of it's the winning penalty, he put his hand up to take the fifth one. That is a huge amount of pressure on an 18-year-old's shoulders, and that shows his temperament. Then he comes in and he was calm and calculated. But yes, the Brennan Johnson penalty,

where he just felt a whole momentum shift, not just in the actual shoot type, but in the stadium as well. It felt like at that moment, it just sucked the atmosphere away a little bit, and then Bosnia going to score the next one, and then the pressure ramps back up on Wales and Nico Williams.

We were a wonderful penalty in the last penalty shooting against Poland. Couldn't do the same again. It's a good save by Vasil. You went real early to his left-down side to get across to it, and then it was all set, the stage was set then for the youngsters to go and win the game for Bosnia.

and the away fans have been terrific as well. They made a real noise with fright this game. And those travelling fans probably deserve that moment as well. They certainly do. We must say congratulations to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Wales captain Ethan Amperdu just talking to BBC Wales TV just beneath us, doing his commitments, his post-match commitments, because whatever happens, you've always got to face the media quite literally.

And Ethan Amperdu is talking right now. And it's interesting, Ali, I know we were talking, Beforehand what would happen on Tuesday should Wales lose and Northern Ireland lose the and commiserations to Northern Ireland not quite making it as well going down two nil against Italy but Wales and Northern Ireland meet here on Tuesday night for I suppose to quote a friendly match now. I mean the atmosphere here on Tuesday Yeah, I mean when you buy those tickets before the game you're hoping obviously they're going to be for a playoff final to get to the World Cup now there They're anything but and I suppose you could say right. The Nets campaign is the Nations League in September and Wales are back up in the top division of that. I mean, the guys will tell you,

Crickey. I mean, Craig Bellamy trying to lift those. And, you know, Michael O'Neill, the same with the Northern Ireland players for a game like that. I don't know how you do that. And in terms of Wales then, Tom, where does Craig Bellamy go from here? Because this is what the focus has been for his 20 months in charge.

Yeah, I think, I think today will probably be the biggest learning curve in those 20 months. I think Bosnia played in a way that I don't think many other international teams will play. There's almost a stigma about going direct nowadays, especially in international football. Yet, me and Dave see it week in week out in league too. And, you know, it can be effective like we've seen tonight. But you won't see a lot of that on the international stage, that's for sure. But Wales didn't know how to deal with it.

It hit them and it just kept working. It kept working, it kept working, and Bosnia kept doing it, and they kept getting chances from it. So fair play to Bosnia, so a learning curve for Wales is can't be that easy to go direct and allow the ball to bounce time after time after time. So, yeah, I think a learning curve tonight, there'll be a lot of video analysis done on it and where to improve and how to come back stronger. And we can hear from Dan James. Yeah, definitely tough to take. You know, I thought we played really well for them to get a little. goal was obviously gutting and no I thought we played incredible you know to an extra time I

thought we're absolutely brilliant and you know I'm just good for the boys because you know we've worked so hard but you know I think what we showed today was was unbelievable and how far we've come and we've got so much more to show and we'll be back but just to say thank you to to all the fans have been absolutely incredible and you know we'll be back I mean it's a difficult I mean, you scored a fantastic goal, which I'm sure means nothing to you after that result. But to lose on penalties as well, it's something that's happened to you as a squad before. And obviously, you've got that experience as well. What were you able to say to the lads who weren't able to score their penalties tonight?

Because you've been there, haven't you? Yeah, it's a really tough moment. You know, straight away, you feel like you'll let your country down. But we wouldn't be here today without them boys. I thought they're a massive credit to them for stepping up. taking a pen and from personal experience you always come back stronger from it and you know we're all behind them you know we always speak about together stronger but we are none of us you know everyone would have you know wanted to

take a pen tonight and it was you know it was them five and it's such a difficult moment as I said I've been I've been through it before to you know to not make the euros and it is difficult you know you feel like the weights you know all on you but you know this That's what it is. It wasn't meant to be tonight. But then boys will definitely be stronger for it. And, yeah, credit to them for taking one. And there's plenty to look forward to, isn't there?

The next major tournament is going to be here in Wales? Is that something that you can even think about at the moment? Yeah, I think, you know, we've got, obviously to lose tonight is absolutely good. You know, we've got another game on Tuesday, which will, you know, we'll dust ourselves. And we've got to be ready for it because there's such important games coming. As you said, the Euros, the Euro qualifiers and, you know, also the Nations League. We ended up qualifying for Group A. We worked so hard to be there.

And, you know, we want to be amongst the top teams. And, you know, we show tonight the level that we can play. So no World Cup for Wales, no World Cup for Northern Ireland, no World Cup for Republic of Ireland. England, we know already there, Scotland too. So at least we do have home nations involvement. Many of the spectators have now exited the stadium. Some are still making their way down from the back of the canton. stand to the exits as well.

They'll be going home thinking what may have been. And I suppose Dave, that's the hardest thing now. A lot of the players will be thinking that. Hold that thought because we can hear from Ethan and Padu. Ethan, not sure how much you can say about that, but how do you feel? I mean, obviously, disappointed.

It's the only real word where we're lots of words we prepared as well as we could have for this game. I thought we played really well. I mean, the end of the day doesn't really matter because we're not going there in the summer, which is the disappointed thing. But I think as weird is it to say, we can all hold our heads up high because we fought for everything. So sometimes it's not even down to luck because we've prepared well. Just sometimes in life it doesn't really go your way.

We're all professionals and we're all going to, I think me and the standards that we have in this team, we're always going to look back on what we could have better. and maybe we could have managed the game but the last 10 minutes before they scored in the 90 minutes to make sure that we stayed on their front foot and the attacking foot because that's how we want to play football and sometimes in the games of football when they put more numbers forward,

you obviously naturally do get pinned back a little bit but I'm sure that's something that we can look at in the future for now. It's just, yeah, a lot of disappointment. You all came together in the centre circle there and we couldn't see from here who was speaking, but who was speaking and what were they saying? No, the manager, obviously everyone was, in there together to console each other.

I think that puddle there, I mean, it might seem something so small, but I think that's one thing that makes us so strong and we're always gonna be together. I think the Nations League now is next for us, maybe some friendlies in the summer, but we have to go again, I mean, and then go on to the Nation's League.

Thanks a lot for your time and well played tonight. Thank you. Thanks a lot. The Wales Captain Ethan Amp to do there, speaking to the BBC's Carl Robert. Credit to him, it's an interview no one ever wants to do, Dave. What did you make of what he at? decide there. I think he said everything that a captain needs to say they have no choice but to move on. Football calendar will move on. They won't be at the World Cup. They have a nation's league campaign

coming up. They have friendlies coming up. They have to deal with the game on Tuesday night, which I'm sure that's the last thing they'll want to do. I'm sure they want to go back to their clubs, go back to their families. But it's going to be a tough weekend for them to try and get over this. But I spoke before the game about the transition they're in at the moment. Craig Bellamy has got this team much further along that road than what they probably should be. So whilst there is disappointment in this, I do think that you can see by 60 minutes today, they're absolutely brilliant. So they have evolved tremendously well over a short period of time.

But like Tom said, there's going to be moments in games where it goes against you. Maybe that's the bit now that Craig Bellamy needs to look at. How do they stop that when Bosnia are pushing all those bodies forward? They're loads in the box. At what moment in there can you stop that momentum from the opposition and try and get your way back into the game because they really struggled at the back ends of that first, the back end of that second half. Away from that, the performance was excellent, had chances to go two-nill-up. But once they started making the changes, Bosner, and they started lumping the ball forward,

and he started pressing higher at the pitch. Wales, unfortunately, just didn't have the answers. Let's hear from the Wales manager, Craig Bellamy. Definitely proud, but very disappointed. You know, I don't like, you know, it's not the hard luck Wales one. We expect to be at major tournaments or we really push ourselves to be there. It was a lot good tonight. That really gives a good opportunity of being here. But yeah, it wasn't to be.

It wasn't to be. But you said you wanted them to give everything. You didn't fear losing because you were going to go for it. Did you get what you wanted from your team tonight? Yeah, yeah, definitely. It was the last 20 or minutes was the only time we stopped playing. We can't stop playing. We just can't.

Why do you think that was? It's understandable. We're leading. They're throwing more men on. More forwards come on. Then we weren't triggering, weren't pressing. But when we had the ball, we didn't have the energy to press because the simple fact we didn't keep the ball long enough. Now it's a big lesson for us as well.

We want to see games out. You've got to see it out with the ball. We're not built that type of team to be able to defend deep and see things out, especially with the size they have. the bigger presence they had in the box was always going to be a big problem, so we need to keep them away from the box. And we regained it then extra time, regain momentum. But yeah, considering the chances we created and the moments we had,

maybe would have been like to be out of sight by that time as well. Yeah, there's another game to come on Tuesday, but I know that you're looking at this long term. Is there plenty to be hopeful? If you're a Wales football fan, a Wales men's team's football fan. Yeah, yeah, you've got Group A coming up. You've got a home nation, Euros. One incredible time.

Listen, we want to keep that, of course. We want to be in a World Cup this summer. It's not going to be. But the future is very bright for this. And for this team as well. It's a reasonably young team. Some exceptional young players coming through. so yeah some good years ahead of Wales

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On the Football Daily podcast, The debrief. Listen on BBC Sounds. It just goes to show Tom, doesn't it, that ultimately the amount of chances that Wales did have in those 90 minutes, had they put more of them away, we could have been having a different discussion. It just goes to show how slim margins are in football. Yeah, and you cast your mind back to that Daniel James chance that crashed against the crossbar after he got slid through by Harry Wilson. deflection took it up onto the bar and if that one goes in at two-nil you'd like to think the game's done and you have to give credit to bosnia after wales took the lead they did respond very well they went very high in the press which caused wales different sort of problems and they were

very good at it in the second half as well so yeah this uh it's a disappointing night but like dave said you've got to move on there's no other way in football and we are going to be better off for it that's for sure would we have liked to have won this absolutely But it's part and past of the game. There's going to be bumps along the road. And I have to say over this qualifying campaign, the way we have gone about playing our football and conducted ourselves through all these games,

it does really, really make me proud to be Welsh. I think the transformation between, you know, we were probably in similar positions two years ago, but, you know, we were hanging on in games and hoping Gareth Bale would score a Woldy for us. And the way we've been able to do it as a team, this campaign just shows how far we've come. And like I said, it makes me really proud to be

well. So yes, this is horrible night for us, but I'm sure there's going to be a lot more positive in the future and that's for sure. Indeed. There are a host of Seagulls who've made an appearance swarming around the Cardiff City Stadium. They've missed the show. They've missed the entire extra time and penalties, but maybe that's what they wanted, the calmness. Just to run through the playoff final lineup that we've now got following the semi-finals this evening. So we know Bosnian-Hetzer Govina will be home against Italy next Tuesday. The Czech Republic, who beat the Republic of Ireland on penalties will host Denmark, who won 4-0 this evening. Kosovo against Turkey and Sweden against Poland make up the lineup. So commiserations to Wales, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland as well.

Let's get some reaction from Northern Ireland because they went out after losing 2-0 in Italy. Northern Ireland head coach Michael O'Neill has been given his reaction after that game in Italy. He's been speaking to Gavin Andrews. I'm very proud of the performance. First of all, the players gave everything. I thought first half. We were terrific in terms of our shape and our structure. Made it difficult for Italy.

We had to defend corners, but we defended them extremely well. Felt at times we could have been a little bit better on the ball. I thought we had opportunities where maybe we just overhit the pass or maybe made the wrong option at times. I think we were strong claim for a penalty with the handball as well. And second half, you know, we gave them a couple of moments that we created it ourselves.

The goal's poor from our point of view. We end up, you know, a little bit carries out of shape, and then Isaac's not, we're in the position we really want them to be in. And then, you know, the ball's headed down into a poor area. And the one person you don't want landing on the ball at that point in time is Tenali. And it's a strong hit. But again, you know, I felt that there was always something for us in the game. The second goal obviously takes it away from you a little bit.

But we had a couple of chances. towards the end to try and make it a little bit tense. But look, it was a very young team tonight. I think the average age of the teams, maybe just 22 years of age. They gave everything. And that's all we can ask. I'm very proud of them.

And I think, you know, we showed that we've made, you know, huge strides as a team as well. Northern Ireland head coach Michael O'Neill there. Paul Gilmore watched the game out in Italy in Bergmo for us. An interesting point that he does make there because no doubt that they, can take that from the game, but obviously the immediate feeling will of course be one of heartbreak, Paul. Of course, Deleth, complete disappointment for this Northern Ireland team, almost 40 years on from when they last dined at football's top table. Elements of their

performance in Bergamo allowed the 1,300 vocal travelling supporters to dream of past glories for 55 minutes. The plucky underdogs were right in this game against the four times. world champions, many of the 25,000 inside Atlanta stadium began to wonder if history might repeat itself for Italy. Sweden and North Macedonia have caused Italy problems and past playoffs. But in truth, North and Northern Ireland for all their endeavour and their comfort on this stage, struggled to make a meaningful impact in the final third. Instead, it was left to the classy Sanrio Tenali to show the difference. His fierce first-time strike from 20 yards broke the resistance and then Moyes Keene fired in off the post

when that happened, that was that. Italy responded well to the pressure and ultimately got the job done for North and Ireland. Well, the tension now turns to Michael O'Neill's future and the ongoing links and what happens with this Blackburn Rover's job and something needs to give and may yet give. One thing he does have here with Northern Ireland, though,

is a young squad that will only get better. Will there be much fallout, do you think, surrounding that there was a lot of talk when he took the role in February that obviously he could do both roles and that by taking the Blackburn job until the end of the season, it would make his focus sharper ahead of the Northern Ireland camp. Is that likely to be a bit of a narrative, though, following the defeat in Italy that perhaps Michael O'Neill shouldn't have taken the Blackburn job? I don't think it'll be a narrative. I think if you speak to most Northern Ireland supporters, they will say if there's one manager they want in charge for a game like this, it will be Michael O'Neill. And in some ways, that was proven tonight. The way they stayed in the game for so long,

the way they began to frustrate Italy and crucially for them. That moment when Sandro Tonali scored, I watched Terry Devlin, who was excellent on the night. He played a back pass about three, four minutes before the Tenali goal, and it clipped his own player and took the sting off it, and Italy had a real chance to score from it. They didn't score, but Northern Ireland struggled to regain their composure

for that next three, four, five minutes. And that is when Tonali hit them. So it's these fine margins. But for the large part, we talk about having a sense of pride in the team. Michael O'Neill has alluded to that already. That's what people will focus on. People will see that that was nothing to do with Blackburn Rovers. And of course, everyone will be desperate.

Michael O'Neill will stay on as North and Ireland boss. Whether he can continue both jobs into next season, that feels like it would be incredibly unlikely. But crucially, his contract runs to the end of Euro 2028. Of course. So I guess it's a case of watch the space. Paul, great job this evening. Safe trip back from Italy.

Paul Gilmore, they're out in Bergamo for us. Who'll be returning with the Northern Ireland players, I'm sure, tomorrow is well. Disappointment for them. Michael O'Neill, of course, like Craig Bellamy, contracted currently with their nations until 2028, or the European qualifying campaign for 2028. The pack-up job is already starting well underway here at Cardiff City. stadium, everyone's packing things away. The pitch is getting at mode as well in the in the distance here.

Just a word actually on that on that playoff final between Bosnia and Italy. Dave, we touched beforehand before kickoff that Italy of course are on the cusp potentially of missing a third world cup, but they won't find going to Bosnia. Easy on Tuesday and the pressure arguably probably will more be on Italy. Absolutely. And I think they'll be happy that this went to extra time. You look at the legs of the Bosnian players at the end. They were flat out on the floor.

So many of the players got cramped during it. So that they'll be hard for those Bosnians to recover. They've got to fly back to their home nation as well. But Italy should have enough to beat them, you'd think. But Bosnia is a tough place to go. I've been there for Wales in that Euro 2016 qualifying campaign. We lost there on that evening. Very difficult environment to play in very hostile atmosphere.

And the Italians will find it difficult, We'll find it difficult. We just feel the way the two games have gone tonight. They have to go into that as favourites. What's quite interesting, Deleth, about that playoff final draw lineup, is that all the lower-rank teams are at home, which makes that really interesting. So Bosnia and Herzegovina at home to Italy,

Kosovo, with their away win tonight at home to Turkey, Sweden at home to Poland, and Czechia at home to Denmark. And actually, it's reward for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Sweden, who all won away tonight, actually get the reward of them. playing the final at home, but I completely agree with Dave. I think the enormous pressure, you know, on those Italian players, just the expectation of them as a football nation.

That is they wouldn't have enjoyed coming here. They're not going to enjoy going to. I'm going to watch that one with fascination. Absolutely. I mean, Ali's right there, Tom, isn't it? The fact that Italy could potentially not make it for another World Cup, full-time winners and the history that Italy and Italian football has. Yeah, absolutely.

Look, it's not going to be an easy job going over to Bosnia. You look at what did they bring today? 3,000 was it? They were so loud. They were bouncing around. There was flares going off. And let's have it right. There's going to be a lot more of that when,

when Italy come to town on Tuesday night. So yeah, it's going to be a good game. But if, you know, World Cups aren't just giving away. They're earned. So you're going to have to go there, show what you're about. And hopefully try and get the job done. Yeah. And I think there was a fair decent of Ultras there.

I think some of the ultras dressed all Black are still there. They're making their way out of the stadium very, very slowly. The Bosnia fans, but the, the Wales fans have, have already left. Dave, and I suppose it's this appointment for supporters as well, but, but do you feel from a fan's perspective and, and Wales fans that you've spoken to in recent months that they'll, they'll fully be behind Craig Bellamy now going forward.

He's contracted like I say until 2028, you know, the European qualifying campaign up to 2028. It is the right man for the job, isn't he? Absolutely. The contrast is stark between losing to Poland and everyone, well, a lot of the Welsh fans very frustrated with the regime at the time. I don't feel like there'll be an outcry like that this time because Wales are moving in such a positive direction. There is going to be disappointment.

The fans will be absolutely devastated. They want to go to a World Cup, a World Cup in America, Canada or Mexico as well. That would be very special. It's so close. We will say four minutes and added time away from getting that result. We're one penalty kick away

from doing it as well to take us into a monumental game here against Italy. All those things will leave the fans so disappointed. It'll take them a long time to get over it. They won't feel too enthused

about coming here on Tuesday night to watch Northern Ireland play. They won't be too enthused in the summer when you've got these throwaway friendlies that nobody really wants to go to and then they've got a build again in the Nation's League

where there is some better pictures. They are in the A league. That shows the the progression that this Wales team are making, but one million percent, Craig Bellamy is the right man for the job. And they will get better from this experience. As hard as that is now for Wales fans,

they will be better for this, and they will come back stronger, going into a European qualifying campaign with some excellent games to come for Wales as well, if they can get through where the tournament's being held. So it is still all to play for it, but it will take a long time for the fans, the players and the staff to get over this initial disappointment.

Briefly, Tom. Your final thoughts? No, Dave, spot on. Craig Bellamy is the man for the job. I have absolutely no doubt about it. Like I said, watching the Welsh team that he puts together makes me proud to be Welsh. And, you know, I can't give him any greater honour. I want to see a team that represents me as a proud Welshman. And they go out and they fight till the very end.

And that's what they done today. And unfortunately, we weren't on the right side of it. It's been a pleasure having your company this evening, gentlemen. My thanks to Tom Lockyer, Dave Edwards. and Alistair Bruce Ball is, well, that's it from me, Deleth Lloyd here at Cardiff City Stadium, a quietened Cardiff City Stadium. Heartbreak for Wales and heartbreak for Northern Ireland this evening. They won't be at the World Cup this summer.

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