
Wales’ Gareth Bale
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“Gutted” Gareth Bale couldn’t disguise his disappointment after Iran scored two objectives in harm time to go away Wales in serious trouble on the World Cup on Friday.
Iran won 2-0 and Wales now have to beat England of their ultimate Group B match and hope different outcomes go their strategy to have any likelihood of progressing to the final 16.
“We’re gutted. There isn’t any different strategy to say it,” skipper Bale instructed the BBC.
“We have fought till the final second. It is a kind of issues, it is tough to take however we now have to get better and go once more.”
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Wayne Hennessey’s 86th-minute pink card left Wales clinging on for some extent on the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium.
However their resistance was lastly damaged within the eighth minute of time added on by Rouzbeh Cheshmi’s blistering strike.
Ramin Rezaeian then added a second within the eleventh minute of added time to seal a well-known victory for Iran, who had been thrashed 6-2 by England of their opening sport.
“Clearly the pink card adjustments the sport fully. We let the primary one in and the second does not matter,” added former Actual Madrid attacker Bale.
“Now we have to choose ourselves up right away. Now we have one sport left and we now have to benefit from the event.
“It should be tough, for positive. We’ll see what occurs within the different sport.”
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