{"id":894832,"date":"2026-04-15T03:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/894832\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T03:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:35:25","slug":"wales-return-to-racecourse-is-a-winning-one-against-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/894832\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; return to Racecourse is a winning one against Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Rhian Wilkinson&#8217;s side were back at the SToK Cae Ras for their clash with Albania and it was a thumping 4-0 triumph for the home side.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Just a quarter-of-an-hour had gone when Wales got their noses in front.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Hannah Cain was on hand to grab the opener from Mared Griffiths&#8217; cross.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Griffiths fired over as Wales continued to have the upper hand and it was 2-0 with 10 minutes of the first half remaining.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Albania keeper Rajmonda Spahiu failed to gather Cain&#8217;s cross and Elise Hughes was in the right place to score.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wales had dominated that first 45 minutes and they were looking for more of the same after the interval.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Just three minutes after the restart, Wrexham fan Rhiannon Roberts grabbed the next goal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Griffiths once more came up with the assist and her cross was headed in by Roberts at the far post.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wales then had their fourth goal in the 55th minute and it was Cain at the double.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Lily Woodham supplied the cross and a fine Cain finish made it 4-0.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More good work later on from Griffiths helped set up another chance for Cain, but her effort went wide of the target.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wales are level at the top of the group with the Czech Republic, who beat Montenegro 5-0.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This Saturday, Wales head to Albania for the return encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rhian Wilkinson&#8217;s side were back at the SToK Cae Ras for their clash with Albania and it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-894832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116406633199416306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}