{"id":109192,"date":"2025-10-28T22:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/109192\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:29:07","slug":"wales-2-5-poland-winless-run-stretches-to-11-games-in-heavy-friendly-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/109192\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales 2-5 Poland: Winless run stretches to 11 games in heavy friendly defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales began life after Jess Fishlock with a painful 5-2 friendly defeat to Poland in Newport which extends their winless run to 11 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rhian Wilkinson appeared to be glancing to the future as she picked an experimental Wales side, with only two players who started Fishlock&#8217;s farewell game against Australia last Saturday keeping their places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And while there were some signs of promise from Wales, they were exposed defensively all too often by a Poland side ranked 26th in the world, six places higher than their hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was Wales&#8217; seventh successive loss, their longest sequence since a 12-game losing streak in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The thrashing came despite Wales making the ideal start at Rodney Parade, with their early energy and enterprise rewarded as Elise Hughes bundled home after Anna Filbey&#8217;s shot was parried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tianna Teisar, making her first Wales start, was then denied when one on one with Poland goalkeeper Kinga Seweryn, before a succession of set-pieces proved too much for Wilkinson&#8217;s rearguard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A neatly worked corner brought the equaliser, with Krezyman guiding a shot low into the far corner of the net, before a similar routine ended with Kokosz&#8217;s 20-yard drive proving too much for Wales goalkeeper Olivia Clark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales began life after Jess Fishlock with a painful 5-2 friendly defeat to Poland in Newport which extends&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-109192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}