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World Cup qualifiers: 1-0, 33-year-old Bournemouth wins, Wales tops + 6 points off Belgium

2:43am, 5 September 2025Football

At 9:00 p.m., in the fifth round of the first phase of the European qualifiers in the World Cup qualifiers, Kazakhstan, ranked 114th in the world, faces the 31st in the world, Wales, ranked 31st in the world. Before the match, Kazakhstan ranked fourth in Group J, with only 3 points, while Wales ranked second in the group, and they led Kazakhstan by 4 points, but Kazakhstan played one game less than Wales. In terms of paper strength, Wales is stronger than Kazakhstan, and in the last encounter between the two sides, Wales was at the upper hand because Wales scored 3 goals and conceded 1 goal in that encounter, so more fans were full of confidence in Wales defeating Kazakhstan before the game.

In the 24th minute of the first half, 33-year-old Bournemouth former player Moore took the lead to help the visiting Wales team take the lead.

In the end, Wales defeated Kazakhstan as he wished and ushered in the third victory in the World Cup qualifiers. Kazakhstan suffered a two-game losing streak in the World Cup qualifiers, and this was also the third defeat in the World Cup qualifiers.

After the game, Wales overtake North Macedonia with 10 points and temporarily rose to the first place in Group J, while also surpassing Belgium, the powerful team in the same group, as many as 6 points.

Welsh's ball possession rate exceeded 60% throughout the game, and in addition, the number of corner kicks, shots, and shots were higher than that of Kazakhstan.

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