International Friendlies ( Feb 6-8)

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Start	Northern Ireland	Draw	Wales
19:45	5/4	21/10	7/4

Northern Ireland: Maik Taylor (Birmingham City), Michael Ingham (Wrexham); Tony Capaldi (Plymouth Argyle), Stephen Craigan (Motherwell), Michael Duff (Burnley), Aaron Hughes (Aston Villa), Sean Webb (Ross County); Grant McCann (Barnsley), Steve Davis (Aston Villa), Keith Gillespie (Sheffield Utd), Sammy Clingan (Nottingham Forest), Damien Johnson (Birmingham City), Chris Brunt (Sheffield Wednesday); Kyle Lafferty (Burnley), Ivan Sproule (Hibernian), Dean Shiels (Hibernian), Peter Thompson (Linfield). Wales: Danny Coyne (Burnley), Paul Jones (QPR), Gareth Bale (Southampton), Danny Collins (Sunderland), Richard Duffy (Portsmouth, on loan at Swansea City), Steve Evans (Wrexham), Craig Morgan (Peterborough United), Lewin Nyatanga (Derby County), Sam Ricketts (Hull City), Ryan Valentine (Wrexham), Andrew Crofts (Gillingham), Simon Davies (Fulham), Carl Fletcher (Crystal Palace), Jason Koumas (WBA), Carl Robinson (Toronto FC), David Vaughan (Crewe Alexandra), Craig Bellamy (Liverpool), David Cotterill (Wigan Athletic), Jermaine Easter (Wycombe Wanderers), Ryan Giggs (Manchester United), Chris Llewellyn (Wrexham), Paul Parry (Cardiff City). My first football thread! Barring any last minute drop outs this Welsh squad looks stronger on paper with David Healy (NI's only source of goals) injured. I'd expect both sides to be taking this fairly seriously as we both will look for any wins we can. NIs recent form is of course very good, but with it being a friendly the crowd will probably be less pumped up and less vocal and I have allready touched on Healy being missing and these were the 2 key factors in NIs recent successes. Craig Belamy has been playing well lately for Liverpool without scoring and I think he'll be very hungry for a win and a goal on Tuesday. There is a fair amount of competition for places in the Wales squad and everyone will be looking to proove themselves to Toshack and in some cases to their club managers. i think our strong pacy attack in Giggs, Bellamy, Cotterill, Koumas and the on fire Easter will have too much for NI and we'll get the win here. But then i would say that wouldn't I!! Wales to win @ 7/4 - general edit - bbc reports Ryan Giggs is likely not to play any part tonight. I still think we are decent value but don't anyone bet anyhting big now that Giggsy isn't playing