Blues forward Nathan Broadhead started and won his ninth full cap as Wales drew 1-1 with Türkiye in their final Euro 2024 qualifier at the Cardiff City Stadium.

The 25-year-old played the first 62 minutes and was lively throughout, but couldn’t see his side to the victory they needed if they were to stand a chance of automatic qualification for the finals in Germany next summer.

Neco Williams gave the Welsh the lead in the seventh minute but the visitors levelled via a controversial penalty - Wales having been denied a number of far better looking shouts for spot-kicks - on 70 via Yusuf Yazici.

As it was, a win wouldn’t have been enough with Croatia beating Armenia 1-0 to claim second spot and qualification along with the Turks, the group winners. Wales will now go into the play-offs in March.

Keeper Cieran Slicker won his 13th Scotland U21s cap and made a number of important saves as he kept his second clean sheet of the international break his side drew 0-0 with Hungary in Budapest to extend their unbeaten Euro 2025 qualifying run to four matches.

Scotland, who impressively beat Belgium 2-0 away on Friday, remain second in their group.

Elsewhere, Rio Morgan was an unused sub as Northern Ireland’s U19s lost 3-0 to Portugal in Larne. The 17-year-old forward had come on as a sub for Gareth McAuley’s side in their previous two games at the mini-tournament they were hosting, taking his U19s caps total to eight.

Central defender Cameron Stewart, 20, who is on loan with Scottish League One Cove Rangers was left out of the Northern Ireland U21s squad which was beaten 3-0 by England at Goodison Park in Euro 2025 qualifier.

Photo: Reuters

Carberry added 07:37 - Nov 22 Weren't they playing Turkey?
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RobITFC added 08:48 - Nov 22 @carberry or if you watched on the Welsh channel it is Twrci !
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blueboy1981 added 14:55 - Nov 22 We don’t need to be concerned about ‘who’s winning Caps for who’ - more like looking at the log of TOUGH Upcoming Fixtures - and whether we attended to our weakness of leaking Goals ! Looking at the Fixture List - we need to have done the necessary …. !!! - or some may have ‘egg’ on the Face !
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Linkboy13 added 16:38 - Nov 22 Being away with Wales's will probably mean he'll be on the bench on Saturday. I also expect Jack Taylor to carry on in midfield as Luongo has been a bit off lately.
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Fat_Boy_Tim added 20:21 - Nov 22 Broady only played about 65 minutes and looked well fired up. He’ll be fine if we need him to play. Blueboy - What did any of that mean?
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