Wales’ gamble backfires as Ukraine snatch victory

Ukraine 1 Wales 0: Wales’ gamble to take a pre-Euro 2016 fixture in Ukraine backfired as they slipped to a 1-0 defeat.

Manager Chris Coleman had admitted before heading out to Kiev that the game was a “risk” with this being Wales’ penultimate match before this summer’s tournament in France.

But momentum before Wales’ first major tournament appearance for 58 years is in short supply now; it is only one win in their last six games — and that was against one of the whipping boys of European football, Andorra.